As the industry of “Big Data” – the ability to capture, manage, and analyze large amounts of information – continues to grow, internal legal issues will emerge that most businesses will perceive as only secondary in importance. The traditional role of most IT department’s today is to “support the mission” of the organization, and for years, that […]
In the U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday, lawyers for Viacom, Inc., argued that the company’s lawsuit against media-content provider, YouTube, Inc., which was dismissed by the District Court in June, 2010, should be reconsidered, and allowed to continue on to trial. The Wall Street Journal reported that Mr. Paul Smith, legal counsel for Viacom, […]
In what may become the “straw” that broke the brand reputation to Sony, Corporation’s, PlayStation Network, the company announced on Wednesday that it was forced to suspend around 93,000 user accounts after discovering a significant number of unauthorized sign-in attempts. The latest suspension comes just 6 months after Sony was hit by a cyber-attack on its […]
The Obama Administration issued an executive order on Friday, October, 7, 2011, to replace safeguards that exposed thousands of classified government documents in the wake of the WikiLeaks scandal last year. Specific details on the safeguards were not posted, but the Administration stated that procedures were implemented to monitor and detect specific behavior on sensitive […]