Internet Privacy

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First Hearing for Stop Online Piracy Act

With a title like Stop Online Piracy Act, one would think people would be flocking to support the bill, but just the opposite is true. Today the House Judiciary Committee held its first hearing on the Stop Online Piracy Act (H.R. 3261), otherwise known as “SOPA.”

Published November 16, 2011

Osterman Research

How Will You Know When It’s OK Not to Fear the Cloud?

by Michael Osterman

Many decision makers are fearful of moving any—or at least all—of their users to cloud-based email, collaboration, storage and other services. Their concerns focus on a variety of...

Data Retention Legislation Debated; Data Breach Legislation Stacking Up

by Stephanie Jordan

Last week the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary postponed the mark up of H.R. 1981 a bill that could require a broad range of entities to store for 18-months IP addresses they...

What's the Harm If I Get What I Pay For? End-to-End Analysis of the Spam Value Chain

by Stephanie Jordan

Have you ever wondered what would happen if you actually responded to an online offer for an herbal supplement or an enhancement drug? As any active emailer knows, there is a relentless tide of spam...

Former Federal Trade Commissioner Becomes Co-Chair of Cloud Security Alliance's Legal Working Group

by Messaging News staff

The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) announced in early May that former Federal Trade Commissioner Pamela Jones Harbour has signed on as a co-chair of the CSA Legal Working Group. Pamela is a partner...

The Bad Behavior of Behavioral Based Advertising

by Melisa LaBancz-Bleasdale

Behavioral based advertising—BBA—has been around since at least 2008 (in tech years that essentially makes it a legacy technology). In early 2009 Google announced that they would be...

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