SmartEdge was asked for commentary regarding the recent Supreme Court case of Riley v. California, regarding warrantless searches of smart phones in search incident to arrest situations. The resulting article, Where the Supreme Court Ruling, Law Enforcement Spyware and FISC Collide, appears here http://www.fiercebigdata.com/story/where-supreme-court-ruling-law-enforcement-spyware-and-fisc-collide/2014-06-30
Tag: BYOD
Public Agencies’ BYOD Challenges – FedTechMagazine
BYOD programs in public agencies lag behind their private industry counterparts, but the trend is clear – usage is increasing. Sm@rtEdgeLaw Attorney Richard Santalesa notes in the Spring Issue of FedTech Magazine that “public agencies face many of the same BYOD challenges as private firms, including maintaining employee privacy, securing data on lost and stolen […]
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 […]
Ponemon Study on Patient Privacy Highlights Security Failings
Released today, the Ponemon Institute‘s Third Annual Benchmark Study on Patient Privacy & Data Security (available at, http://www2.idexpertscorp.com/ponemon2012/) starkly highlights the continued serious challenges faced by healthcare organizations in adequately safeguarding protected health information (“PHI”). As the study notes straight out of the gate “the threats to healthcare organizations have become increasingly more difficult to […]
Federal CIO Council Releases BYOD Toolkit
Bring Your Own Device (“BYOD”) is the latest overnight IT sensation. But like most “overnight sensations” the foundational work took years before now familiar names “suddenly” hit the bright lights. In broader response to the ongoing Consumerization of Information Technology trend (“COIT”), no less than the Federal government has jumped on the BYOD bandwagon. Last week […]
