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Category: Privacy by Design

ABA Journal Quotes SmartEdgeLaw Group on Cybersecurity in Law Firms

Founding attorney, Richard Santalesa, is quoted in the Sept. 2018 ABA Journal about cybersecurity in law firms. The legal profession as a whole has lagged behind other segments in keeping its digital house locked down #cybersecurity #infosec #ABAJournal #datasecurity via ABA Journal http://www.abajournal.com/…/law_firms_cybersecurity_awarene…

Fairfield County Business Journal Profiles SmartEdgeLaw Group

We’re proud to be featured in the Fairfield County Business Journal. Our practice is tech-focused, reality-driven and above all embrace that legal is here to deliver solutions and recommendations not road blocks. Our firm works throughout CT and NYC and is constantly developing new approaches to meet your legal needs. Westport attorney takes a legal […]

Global Fraud Report: Consumers Frustrated With Financial Institutions

The newly released 2014 ACI Global Fraud Survey (links at bottom) paints a dramatic picture of the global debit/credit card fraud picture – raising a litany of concerns for consumers and financial institutions. Trust? In line with the study’s name and the different behavioral and fraud levels around the world, trust remains a huge issue regarding consumers’ trust of financial […]

FTC Takes Mobile App Makers to Task – Warns About Empty Promises in Privacy Policies

A new staff report by the FTC, What’s the Deal” – A FTC Study on Mobile Shopping Apps, highlights the FTC”s continued concerns about user data and the mobile ecosphere – particularly how payment disputes are handled by developers of mobile apps in the wake of recent Apple and Amazon app issues.. Following in the wake of the […]

Procurement Takeaways of the Intersection of Cloud Computing and Mobility

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (“NIST”) held a two and a half day workshop last week, March 25-27, entitled The Intersection of Cloud and Mobility, to brainstorm on the issues, problems and realities of a world where “low-end mobile devices access diverse and scalable cloud computing resources and globally connected mobile enabled resources […]

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 […]

2014 Verizon PCI Report Reveals Much Work Needed For Compliance

Update:  Richard Santalesa of the Sm@rtedgeLaw Group was interviewed by Eric Parizo of SearchSecurity.com for the story Verizon PCI report: Pen testing, passwords cause PCI assessment gaffes to discuss PCI and the 2014 Verizon PCI Compliance Report. Verizon’s 2014 PCI Compliance Report  (“PCR”) is now available for free download in “pre-release.”   Along with Verizon’s annual […]

FTC’s 50th Data Security Settlement Highlights Best Practices

The FTC’s recently announced “50th data security settlement,” with GMR Transcription Services, has been highlighted by the Commission as a “golden opportunity to check your [data security] practices.”  We agree. The facts behind the settlement read like a veritable case study of what not to do and how companies get into hot water with regulators […]

IAPP Introduces All-New Mobile App Privacy Tool

In the past year, the Federal Trade Commission increased enforcement of mobile privacy policies and mobile apps, particularly those used by children as regulated by the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (“COPPA”).  Regulators across the pond in the EU has likewise viewed mobile apps and mobile devices as posing significant privacy and data security concerns. Responding […]

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