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The Government: Both a Problem and a Solution on Security Breaches
As private entities in virtually all industries have faced private data security breach challenges, we also are seeing the parallel rise of security breaches involving government entities. These recent breaches ' led by the enormous publicity surrounding the Veterans' Administration loss/theft of a laptop containing the personal information of more than 26 million veterans ' have focused attention on the government as both the collector of enormous amounts of personal information and the source of many security problems. With this new attention, the government needs to redouble its efforts to improve overall security and focus leadership attention on developing best practices that can both protect against government breaches and provide useful information to private sector entities facing the same challenges.
This article highlights how copyright law in the United Kingdom differs from U.S. copyright law, and points out differences that may be crucial to entertainment and media businesses familiar with U.S law that are interested in operating in the United Kingdom or under UK law. The article also briefly addresses contrasts in UK and U.S. trademark law.
With each successive large-scale cyber attack, it is slowly becoming clear that ransomware attacks are targeting the critical infrastructure of the most powerful country on the planet. Understanding the strategy, and tactics of our opponents, as well as the strategy and the tactics we implement as a response are vital to victory.
The Article 8 opt-in election adds an additional layer of complexity to the already labyrinthine rules governing perfection of security interests under the UCC. A lender that is unaware of the nuances created by the opt in (may find its security interest vulnerable to being primed by another party that has taken steps to perfect in a superior manner under the circumstances.
In Rockwell v. Despart, the New York Supreme Court, Third Department, recently revisited a recurring question: When may a landowner seek judicial removal of a covenant restricting use of her land?