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Defense contractors must now report successful cyberattacks
- Steptoe & Johnson LLP
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- USA
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- January 12 2013
Defense contractors with security clearances will soon be required to inform the government when hackers successfully penetrate their networks
Sticks and stones may break my bones, but carrots can never hurt me
- Steptoe & Johnson LLP
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- USA
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- July 21 2012
Senator Joseph Lieberman (I-CT) last Thursday introduced in the Senate a revised version of the Cybersecurity Act of 2012, which, in Lieberman’s words, now relies on “incentives rather than mandatory regulations to strengthen America’s cybersecurity.”
Government requests for cell phone data on the rise
- Steptoe & Johnson LLP
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- USA
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- July 21 2012
Federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies in the United States made over 1.3 million requests for consumer cell phone records in 2011 alone, according to reports from the country’s major wireless carriers
House sings “Kumbaya” on cyber info-sharing, but not everyone knows the words
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- USA
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- April 28 2012
The U.S. House of Representatives passed the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) on April 26, despite a veto threat from President Obama and opposition from civil liberties groups
Ninth Circuit allows surveillance case to proceed against government, but not telecoms
- Steptoe & Johnson LLP
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- USA
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- January 7 2012
A law granting immunity to telecommunications companies that allegedly assisted the U.S. government in conducting warrantless surveillance on American citizens is constitutional, according to the Ninth Circuit
U.S. cyberstrategy looks to offensive action
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- USA
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- December 10 2011
The United States is prepared to take military action in retaliation for foreign cyberattacks, according to a recent Department of Defense Policy Report
Congress votes to extend PATRIOT Act provisions after a burp in the House
- Steptoe & Johnson LLP
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- USA
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- February 12 2011
The U.S. House of Representatives this morning voted, 279 to 143, to concur in a Senate amendment extending for 90 days two parts of the USA PATRIOT Act and one provision of the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 that are due to sunset at the end of this month
Feds putting their heads in the cloud
- Steptoe & Johnson LLP
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- USA
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- September 4 2010
A subcommittee of the Federal CIO Council issued a report identifying some of the legal issues that federal agencies need to consider before storing personally identifiable information in the "cloud."
Court rules that what you expose to the public may still be private
- Steptoe & Johnson LLP
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- USA
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- August 28 2010
The D.C. Circuit ruled last month in United States v. Maynard that the use of a tracking device to follow a suspect over an extended period of time is a search within the meaning of the Fourth Amendment and therefore requires a warrant
A pilgrim’s progress revisited
- Steptoe & Johnson LLP
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- United Kingdom, USA
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- December 5 2009
A little over a decade ago, government agencies in the United States and the United Kingdom were hell-bent on restricting the spread of strong encryption out of their concern that it would impede their ability to monitor the communications of terrorists and criminals
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- Jurisdiction - USA
- Workarea - Public
- Workarea - Information Technology
- Firm Name - Steptoe & Johnson LLP
- Author - Sally Albertazzie