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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

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

Plaintiffs struggle to establish standing in suits over collection of personal information

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

Courts continue to deny standing to plaintiffs whose information companies collect without authorization, based on their inability to claim concrete

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

Ninth Circuit rejects ECPA challenge to out-of-state subpoenas

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

Some might have thought the fax was essentially dead, but law enforcement agencies continue to keep this dated technology alive by faxing subpoenas

Canada raises the bar on communications privacy

  • Steptoe & Johnson LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • April 13 2013

The Supreme Court of Canada has made it more difficult for police to obtain cellphone text messages in storage. In R. V. TELUS Communications Co

Ninth Circuit reiterates its narrow interpretation of CFAA

  • Steptoe & Johnson LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 13 2013

The Ninth Circuit has reaffirmed its view that people who access information on a computer with authorization but subsequently violate restrictions

No harm, still a foul

  • Steptoe & Johnson LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 13 2013

The U.S. District Court for the Central District of Illinois, in Shefts v. Petrakis, has held that the Stored Communications Act allows a plaintiff