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While other states have previously passed laws that recommended that businesses consider the protection of a customer’s data, Nevada has now become the first state to require all businesses in the state to encrypt the electronic transmission of a customer’s personal information, effective October 1, 2008. Despite the novelty of this new law, it raises many questions and uncertainties in its practical application by businesses.

Long ago and far away, about the time that Al Gore invented the Internet, I decided that I would cover developing legal issues pertaining to the Internet. Soon thereafter, I was commissioned to write a treatise on Internet law.

The current Federal Trade Commission has little tolerance for companies that fail to take appropriate security measures to protect the financial data of their customers.

Does it ever seem that teenagers can’t go anywhere without their mobile phones?

California's Department of Justice has released proposed regulations to enforce the state's social media addiction law, establishing new requirements for age verification and parental consent mechanisms.

Beyond the obvious benefits of the latest generation of smartphones, mobile technology presents multiple privacy challenges.

If you care about the latest in Internet policy, you probably wish you were side by side with industry and world leaders at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland...

On October 22, 2013, the Department of Defense (DoD) published its Final Rule establishing a program for promoting voluntary sharing of cyber threat information between the DoD and government contractors.

On December 1, 2006, certain of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure were amended to provide consistent ground rules for parties dealing with Electronically Stored Information in discovery. Everyone talks about the amendments in the abstract, but you may still be wondering what they are.

Louis Lehot is used to working in his office, but since mid-March, he's been working at home like so many in the legal industry.

As artificial intelligence tools become embedded in enterprise workflows, organizations face a critical challenge: managing the information these systems create, retain, and delete. This article examines how AI-generated prompts, outputs, logs, and metadata create complex records management obligations that span privacy, compliance, litigation holds, and regulatory requirements, often conflicting with AI systems designed for ephemerality.

In recent months, "virtual currency" has been making headlines. Most of us don’t really think about what "virtual" currency means and often confuse it with other forms of money.

The Supreme Court’s December 10, 2003 decision to uphold the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002 (BCRA) cleared-the-way for the new campaign law’s full implementation for the 2004 federal elections. The Court’s unexpected decision to sustain BCRA’s political advertising provisions in their entirety, only one month before the Iowa Caucuses, left many broadcasters scrambling to understand and comply with the law’s complex – and sometimes inconsistent – requirements.

Early in the pandemic, the governor issued an emergency order from that allowed for a type of electronic notarization. The order was necessary to reduce in-person contact during the signing and notarizing of documents.