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Ronald Mann writes: The Supreme Court’s decision on Thursday in Van Buren v. United States provides the court’s first serious look at one of the most important criminal statutes involving computer-related crime, the federal Computer Fraud and Abuse Act… Continue reading Diverse six-justice majority rejects broad reading of computer-fraud law
Admire Moyo reports: The Cyber Crimes Bill, which seeks to bring SA’s cyber security laws in line with the rest of the world, has just been signed into law by president Cyril Ramaphosa. According to law firm Werksmans Attorneys, this Bill, which is now… Continue reading ZA: President Ramaphosa signs Cyber Crimes Bill into law
Andrew Longhi, Jayne Ponder, and Libbie Canter of Covington & Burling write: To add to the growing list of federal privacy frameworks introduced this year, Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) has re-introduced the bipartisan Social Media Privacy Protectio… Continue reading New Privacy Bill Provides Opt-Out Rights and New Data Security Requirements
Rebecca Smith reports: The Transportation Security Administration intends to release the first of at least two security directives that would require pipeline operators to notify it when they are targets or victims of cyberattacks, according to senior … Continue reading After Colonial Pipeline Hack, U.S. to Require Operators to Report Cyberattacks
By Jean Schaffer, Federal CTO, Corelight For those of us who have spent our careers working in cybersecurity, President Biden’s recent “Executive Order on Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity,” (EO) held no surprises. However, it is a step toward accel… Continue reading What the Cyber EO means for federal agencies
Mehal Jain reports: The Supreme Court on Tuesday remarked that in a case of hacking and data theft, in addition to penal provisions of the IT Act, offences under the IPC would also be attracted and that the IT Act would not exclude the applicability of… Continue reading In: Hacking, Data Theft Attract Offences Under IPC Also, Not Just Information Technology Act : Supreme Court
The following statement refers to the Executive Order signed by President Biden. The full text of the Executive Order can be found here. White House – Today, President Biden signed an Executive Order to improve the nation’s cybersecurity and prot… Continue reading President Signs Executive Order Charting New Course to Improve the Nation’s Cybersecurity and Protect Federal Government Networks
In United States v. Carpenter, the United States Supreme Court ruled that, before the police could obtain historical cell site location information (CSLI) about the location of someone’s cell phone in the past, they had to seek and obtain a warrant fr… Continue reading Federal Court Narrows ‘Third Party’ Warrant Requirement
Asha Barbaschow reports: The New South Wales government is preparing a new Bill that will require public sector and state-owned entities to report a data breach to the Privacy Commissioner as well as any affected individuals. The Privacy and Personal I… Continue reading NSW readies its own data breach notification scheme for state agencies
Yan Luo, Zhijing Yu, and Vicky Liu of Covington & Burling write: In Part 1 of this blog series (see here), we discussed recent data protection developments in China’s e-commerce sector. In this post, we discuss recently issued rules aimed at impro… Continue reading Privacy Updates from China: Proliferation of Sector-Specific Rules As Key Legislation Remains Pending – Part 2: Data Protection in the Financial Sector