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Support for retribution and active defense increases

  • Steptoe & Johnson LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 22 2013

Chinese hacking continues to build anger in American business and government circles. As a result, private companies may be encouraged to do more

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

Lessons from the New York ATM heist

  • Steptoe & Johnson LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 10 2013

The announcement yesterday of charges in New York against eight members of a cybercrime ring that stole $40 million from ATMs in 24 countries, all

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:

Not-so-shocking privacy surprises

  • Steptoe & Johnson LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 29 2013

Privacy laws are an ideal illustration of laws with unintended consequences. Take two examples plucked from last week's front pages: On April 25, The

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

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