On Monday, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) issued a stern 73-page report on privacy, which outlines a demand for Congress to pass comprehensive data privacy legislation. The FTC wants to mandate that U.S. commercial data collectors implement a “Do Not Track” button on Web browsers by the end of the year, or the agency says […]
Documents filed in federal court regarding the January data breach of Amazon.com subsidiary, Zappos.com, shows the online shoe retailer’s data security team had detected the cyber-intruder while the hack was in progress. Zappos.com team members were able to thwart the breach before critical customer data was stolen, but the damage to its brand reputation continues to […]
A reported issued last week by the U.S. Congress stated that Chinese cyber-warfare is capable of posing a “genuine risk” to U.S. national security. Foreign governments are capable of launching a non-conventional war that could cause a “catastrophic” failure of systems and networks supporting critical infrastructure, factories, and databases. Categorizing a cyber-attack as an “act of war” […]
While in law school, I had the privilege of working as an extern for the New York Police Department’s, Civil Enforcement Unit, assisting them in the prosecution of nuisance abatement crimes. Based on theories premised in a March, 1982, article published in The Atlantic by coauthor’s, Mr. George Kelling and Mr. James Wilson, the City of New […]