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Ransomware in Review: 8 Prevention and Response Tips for Your Organization
Electronic data is defining the business world, and with its benefits come many threats. Here's how experts think organizations should protect against ransomware.
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<b><i>BREAKING NEWS</b></i><br>Anthem Agrees to Record $115M Data Breach Settlement
Anthem Inc. has agreed to pay $115 million to settle claims related to the massive 2015 cyberattack that affected 78.8 million customers. If approved by U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh of the Northern District of California, the deal would be the largest data breach settlement in history.
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New Research: Employee Privacy and Corporate Legal Risk
The use of business email accounts and digital devices for personal communications can be risky for both employers and employees. However, employees of all levels may be commingling corporate communications with their personal information, according to new research.
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Will Ransomware Attack Make Law Firms 'WannaCry'?
Employees the world over were locked out of their computers on May 12 and over that following weekend as an insidious and widespread cyberattack nicknamed "WannaCry" rolled through the Internet and into headlines. Luckily for U.S. law firms, experts said it was unlikely that this particular ransomware attack hit many of them. However, they fear aftershocks.
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How Analytics Is Shaping the Current and Future Practice of Law
Anyone following the news headlines of late is aware that artificial intelligence (AI) is being heralded as the technology that will transform industries far and wide — including the legal profession. Here we will briefly consider three areas or "maturity levels" of analytics — descriptive, predictive and prescriptive — and look at their role in revolutionizing the practice of law today.
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Searching for Web Crawling's Legal Boundaries
Web pages are a treasure-trove of useful information for companies that are able to capture it using Web crawling (or scraping) technology. Yet, for over 20 years, courts have struggled to draw the line between the usefulness of such information and the rights of the content owners and website operators from which that content is derived. Once a niche issue, the increased use of this technology has compounded the disputes related to it.
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Should You 'Facebook' the Jury? It Depends on the State and the Judge
While social media profiles can present a trove of data points for jury selection — one that legal tech companies are eager to mine — researching jurors online while keeping on the right side of the judge and local ethics rules is hardly a straightforward exercise.
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"'Google' It" Is a Protected Trademark
Consumers might use "Google" as a verb, but that doesn't mean Google's trademark for its search engine is generic.
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<b><i>Online Extra</b></i><br>Facebook Fine Could Slow Future EU Launches
Facebook Inc. received one of its biggest regulatory slaps late last month when European antitrust regulators fined it $122 million for providing misleading statements about its 2014 purchase of WhatsApp. The fine is relatively small compared to Facebook's annual profits, but it does signal a more aggressive regulatory environment in the region.
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Fourth Circuit to Weigh ISP Copyright Liability for Peer-to-Peer File Sharing by Subscribers
The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals is gearing up to hear argument in <i>BMG Rights Management v. Cox Communications</i>, one of the first attempts by the music industry to hold an ISP liable for unauthorized peer-to-peer file sharing by its subscribers.
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