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Category: Big Data
1+ Billion Records Exposed So Far in 2016
With Labor Day over and summer now fading into memory, it’s the perfect time to take a fresh look at your data and information security, privacy and compliance postures. And to review fresh lessons from what 2016 has served up as to data breaches and incidents in the first six months. Background Earlier this year, […]
SmartEdgeLaw Quoted on 3D Printing Legal Issues
SmartEdgeLaw Group Attorney was recently quoted on the legal issues and concerns for IP owners posed by the rise of 3D Printers in an article by noted technology journalist Pam Baker in InformationWeek’s article, 3D Printers: IT’s Next Great Data Challenge, available at http://www.informationweek.com/big-data/3d-printers-its-next-great-data-challenge/a/d-id/1321934. In the article Santalesa noted the difficulties that will arise regarding […]
Space Still Available: Transactional Aspects of Big Data
Space is still available to attend SmartEdgeLaw attorney Richard Santalesa’s Thurs., January 15th CPE presentation on the issues of Big Data in transactions, including M&A’s, joint ventures and service agreements. Details below. Transactional Aspects of Big Data and Related Privacy Issues Stamford, CT · Thursday, January 15, 2015 Please join us at the upcoming KnowledgeNet and hear from Richard […]
Making a Big Data Splash – New Book Exploring Big Data Issues & Uses
The Sm@rtEdge Law Group is pleased to announce that a forthcoming book on Big Data uses, issues and stategies – Data Divination: Big Data Strategies – will be released on August 27, 2014, and is available now for pre-order on Amazon. The authors of the book consulted with our firm in detail on the legal […]
FTC Data Broker Report Takeaways – Part 2
In this Part Two covering the Federal Trade Commission’s Report on Data Brokers, (Part One is here) we focus on the Report’s detail of benefits and risks to consumers of data brokers’ services, the FTC’s legislative recommendations and best practices data brokers should consider to address growing concerns surrounding data mining. Lastly, we’ll review considerations […]
Data Broker Study from FTC Reveals a Big Data World
Data brokers have been under increased scrutiny lately – from Congress, the press and joined again this week by the Federal Trade Commission, which released a 109-page study of nine data brokers entitled Data Brokers: A Call For Transparency and Accountability (the “Report”). which examined nine data brokers to determine the types and scope of personal information data collected. What […]
White House Big Data Report – An Ink Blot Test
Remember those famous Rorschach ink blot tests, where you could see nearly anything in an image? The White House’s recent Big Data report (BIG DATA: Seizing Opportunities, Preserving Values, the “Report”), which examines how Big Data is and will be expected to be used, strikes us as rather like one of those ink blots – […]
“BigData” Hat Tip for Sm@rtEdge
Attorney Richard Santalesa and the Sm@rtEdgeLaw Group were highlighted in a short Fierce Data article on “How to draft big data contracts.” Contracting for big data services and the issues surrounding onboarding and combination of consumer data, whether “anonymized” or not, from third party sources is neither a trivial matter, nor a mere extension of […]
Mobile Data Tracking – Takeaways from 1st FTC Spring Privacy Seminar
The FTC held its first seminar in the agency’s Spring Privacy Series yesterday on the hot topic of Mobile Device Tracking. In over two-hours the well-attended panel discussion covered privacy, security and regulatory issues raised by mobile tracking joined by Twitter users posting comments via the #FTCMobile hashtag. With the billion dollar mobile app market […]
NIST to Launch Big Data Working Group
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (“NIST”), which we’ve written about at length in the past in connection with its ongoing data security and cloud computing related work, announced the formation of a Big Data Working Group today, with a “kick off” conference call this Wed., June 19, from 1-3pm EDT. The group is […]
A Handful of 2012 Privacy & Security Predictions
Even though 2011 was an extremely active year on the information security and privacy fronts – with a blizzard of proposed legislation, near weekly front page data breaches and the continued full leap into the cloud with its securities issues – I predict that 2012 events across the privacy and data security landscape will make […]
