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Another decryption request bites the dust

  • Steptoe & Johnson LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 11 2013

A federal magistrate in Wisconsin has ruled, in In the Matter of the Decryption of a Seized Data Storage System, that the government cannot force a

How do you search the cloud?

  • Steptoe & Johnson LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 11 2013

A federal magistrate judge recently rejected a government request for a search warrant that would allow it to surreptitiously install data extraction

Google wins third round of DMCA fight with Viacom

  • Steptoe & Johnson LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 11 2013

A federal district court in New York has once again granted Google and its subsidiary YouTube summary judgment on Viacom's claims of copyright

Yes, I really am Angela Merkel

  • Steptoe & Johnson LLP
  • -
  • Germany
  • -
  • May 4 2013

Facebook can keep forcing its German users to disclose their real names in order to register for and continue using the social network, after an

NIST updates cybersecurity guidelines

  • Steptoe & Johnson LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 4 2013

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has updated its cybersecurity guidelines "Special Publication 800-53, Revision 4:

Arkansas gets social

  • Steptoe & Johnson LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 4 2013

Last month, Arkansas became the latest state to bar employers (Act 1480) and educational institutions (Act 998) from requiring or requesting that

German regulator fines Google over privacy violations

  • Steptoe & Johnson LLP
  • -
  • Germany
  • -
  • April 27 2013

A German privacy regulator has fined Google Inc. 145,000 (around $189,000) for violating the country's data protection laws. The Hamburg

FTC issues compliance guide for COPPA requirements

  • Steptoe & Johnson LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 27 2013

In late 2012, the Federal Trade Commission issued an amended rule implementing the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). As we reported

Colombia’s data protection law takes effect

  • Steptoe & Johnson LLP
  • -
  • Colombia
  • -
  • April 27 2013

Columbia's data protection law, officially published on October 18, 2012, as Statute Law No. 1581, is now in effect. Modeled after the EU Data

Breathing a little easier in the cloud

  • Steptoe & Johnson LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 20 2013

This month, the Second Circuit handed down its much-anticipated decision in WNET v. Aereo, Inc. To the considerable relief of public-facing cloud