Registration is open for the next installment in the Mintz Levin Privacy & Security Group Wednesday Webinar series — This webinar, scheduled for Wednesday, February 25, will focus on privacy in the workplace. Our workplace is everywhere these days, which makes employment and privacy compliance even more challenging. Jen Rubin and Gauri Punjabi will discuss… Continue Reading
Tag Archives: Twitter
Time to Change that Facebook Password
Posted in Data BreachIf you haven’t been paying attention to “password hygiene” preached by this blog and others, perhaps it’s time. Jose Pagliery from CNNMoney reports of a large-scale hack that has compromised over 2 million passwords at Facebook, Gmail, Twitter, Yahoo and others. Here is the partial list – 318,000 Facebook accounts 70,000 Gmail, Google+ and YouTube accounts… Continue Reading
Consent Isn’t the Only Consideration: NY Comic Con Attendees Disagree that Hijacking Twitter Accounts Makes the Event “100x cooler! For realz.”
Posted in Social Media, UncategorizedWritten by Jake Romero The comic book industry is no stranger to displays of heroic anger and berserker rage, but over the weekend New York Comic Con (NYCC) was on the receiving end of considerable fan fury after it began ghostwriting effusive tweets about NYCC and posting on the Twitter pages of NYCC attendees in… Continue Reading
Second of a series: Privacy and Security Issues for 2013
Posted in Data Compliance & Security, Employee Privacy, Privacy RegulationOur series over the next 10 days will highlight the top issues, as we see them, in privacy and security for 2013. Yesterday, we looked at the increase in cybersecurity disclosure by public companies, triggered by the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Cybersecurity Guidance. Privacy 2013 – What to Expect in the Employment Arena Written… Continue Reading
Twitter Settles With FTC
Posted in Data BreachTwitter has reached a settlement with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) over charges that it “deceived consumers and put their privacy at risk by failing to safeguard their personal information.” In the Matter of Twitter, Inc., The FTC had alleged that “serious lapses” in Twitter’s security last year “allowed hackers to obtain administrative control of… Continue Reading
Some startling statistics regarding social networking issues in the workplace……
Posted in Employee PrivacyYou might be surprised to know that social networking policies, governing employee use of blogging, Facebook, Twitter and the like, are still a rarity at many business, including teaching hospitals. And, you might be equally surprised to hear that studies are revealing that medical students are displaying cavalier attitudes towards the protection of patient confidentiality…. Continue Reading
Some Social Networking Developments
Posted in Data Compliance & SecurityIf you are a regular user of online social networks such as Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and others, you want to check out a new research paper by a couple of researchers at AT&T Labs and Worcester Polytech that points to some disturbing evidence of the “leakage” of personally identifiable information from the social networking sites… Continue Reading
