In the wake of the H.R. 1981, the “Protecting Children from Internet Pornographers Act of 2011 (PCIPA), proposed May 25, 2011 by U.S. Representatives Lamar Smith (R-Texas), the head of the House Judiciary Committee, and Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.), the National Sheriffs’ Association, a organization representing 3,000+ Sheriff’s offices around the country, announced in testimony […]
Category: Risk Management
Ponemon Study: 73% Believe Cloud Providers Do Not Protect User’s Confidential Information
Growing scrutiny of cloud computing security in the first half of this year is not surprising in light of the numerous data breaches, privacy issues and headline grabbing cloud outages that have occurred recently. (See Amazon EC2 outage, Amazon Cloud Drive Terms of Use, DropBox privacy concerns, Epsilon breach, etc.). On the heels of this […]
Update: Video archive version of last week’s cloud webinar now available
Update: In the event you were unable to attend last week’s webinar covering various Legal Issues of Cloud Computing, an archived video version is available for viewing at your convenience at: http://event.on24.com/r.htm?e=285427&s=1&k=DE81EEFD2A15B72713DB88007F7C2AA6 for the next 30 days, and then thereafter in the MSPtv video archives. Attorneys, Richard Santalesa and Boris Segalis, are presenting the first […]
FTC Issues Guide for Businesses on Securing Digital Copiers
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) recently released a new publication in the wake of numerous news accounts highlighting the potential data security issues posed by modern digital copiers. (See, e.g., Digital Copy Machines Pose Security Concerns, Alburquerque News, July 28, 2010, available here; Digital Photocopiers Loaded with Secrets, CBS Evening News, April 15, 2010, available […]
Webinar on “The Legal Issues of Social Networking”
Richard Santalesa, recently hosted an hour long live webinar on The Legal Issues of Social Networking for IT Managed Service Providers (“MSPs”), in conjunction with Zenith Infotech, Ltd. and Redmond Channel Partner MSPtv. While ostensibly targeted at the MSP community, Rich’s coverage of the general legal issues are applicable to any company that has or […]
New York’s Electronic Equipment Recycling and Reuse Act
Little covered other than by environmental and waste industry trade journals, New York’s legislature earlier this year passed the NYS Electronic Equipment Recycling and Reuse Act (the “Act”), which was signed into law by Governor Paterson. The Act amended various provisions of the NY Tax Law as well as adding Article 27, Title 26, Electronic […]
FAQ on the New Indiana “Abandoned Health Records” Act
Recently the Indiana legislature passed, and Indiana’s governor signed into law, Senate Enrolled Act No. 356 (a/k/a Public Law 84 of Second Regular Session 116th General Assembly 2010), a wide-ranging 71-page bill that, in addition to setting out practices and requirements for barbers, cosmetologists, well pump installers, mental health counselors and numerous other state licensed […]
