Yearly Archives: 2015

Proposed Florida Advisory Opinion Would Allow Attorneys to Advise Clients to Clean Up Social Media before Litigation Starts

On January 23, 2015, the Professional Ethics Committee of the Florida Bar issued Proposed Advisory Opinion 14-1, in which the Committee found that “a lawyer may advise the client pre-litigation to remove information from a social media page, regardless of

Posted in Discovery, Litigation, Social Media

If You Post It, Your Opponent Can Probably Discover It

Earlier this week, our friends at the Property Insurance Law Observer wrote an article about a recent decision involving discovery of pictures posted to a plaintiff’s Facebook page.  The court found that the plaintiff had a lower expectation of privacy in

Posted in Discovery, Litigation, Privacy, Social Media

Time to Get Rid of Those Post-it Notes with All Your Passwords!!!

Cozen O’Connor’s Health Law Informer recently ran a timely piece that should be of interest to everyone.  The article describes a new law signed by New Jersey Governor Chris Christie requiring health insurance carriers to encrypt or otherwise secure computerized

Posted in Data Breach, Data Security, Privacy

A New Kind of Architecture: The President’s New Agenda on Cybersecurity

“[I]f we don’t put in place the kind of architecture that can prevent these attacks from taking place, this is not just going to be affecting movies, this is going to be affecting our entire economy in ways that are

Posted in Legislation, Standards
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