Hunton Privacy

MAY 18, 2016

On May 17, 2016, the European Council adopted its position at first reading of the Network and Information Security Directive (the “NIS Directive”). The NIS Directive was proposed by the European Commission on February 7, 2013, as part of its cybersecurity strategy for the European Union, and is designed to increase cooperation between EU Member States on cybersecurity issues.

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Brandeis Records Manager

MAY 20, 2016

George Despres, CRM. Program Director for University Records Management, Brandeis University. (The content in this blog reflects the opinions of the author, and not of Brandeis University.). I’ve been asked in the past to provide budget estimates for five years into the future. My response is internal laughter, and tears. Understood, this is a typical practice, but the provision of a high-quality estimate for five years out, unless you are a quant evaluating special, massaged, projection data (a

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CGI

MAY 19, 2016

Parking Spaces and the Sharing Economy. p.butler@cgi.com. Thu, 05/19/2016 - 07:28. The media abounds with new phrases which seek to define emerging trends - the sharing economy is one such trend. Danny Wootton in his blog, The Collaborative Economy – A Constant Through the Ages explains the idea behind the sharing (or collaborative) economy. Taking examples from the work of Jeremiah Owyang to show how consumer trends are moving away from traditional service or product purchase to sharing asset o

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Imperial Violet

MAY 15, 2016

( These are notes that I wrote up from a talk that I gave at the National Academies Forum on Cyber Resilience. You can tell that it was in Washington, DC because of the “cyber”. I wasn't quite sure how technical to pitch this talk so it's relatively introductory; regular readers probably know all this. This isn't a transcript of what I said, but I try to hit the main points in my notes. ).

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Hunton Privacy

MAY 16, 2016

On May 16, 2016, the United States Supreme Court issued a decision in Spokeo Inc. v. Thomas Robins , holding 6-2 that the Ninth Circuit’s ruling applied an incomplete analysis when it failed to consider both aspects of the injury-in-fact requirement under Article III. Writing for the Court, Justice Samuel Alito found that a consumer could not sue Spokeo, Inc., an alleged consumer reporting agency that operates a “people search engine,” for a mere statutory violation without alleging actual injur

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Hunton Privacy

MAY 19, 2016

Recently, Aegerion Pharmaceuticals announced that it will enter into several settlements and plead guilty to two misdemeanors in connection with alleged violations of HIPAA, drug marketing regulations and securities laws. The criminal charges stem from the company’s marketing of a cholesterol drug called Juxtapid. Aegerion allegedly failed to comply with risk evaluation and management strategies and marketed Juxtapid (which is labeled with a warning about liver toxicity) without proper direction

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CGI

MAY 17, 2016

Knowledge – Life on the Farm. ravi.kumarv@cgi.com. Tue, 05/17/2016 - 04:50. There’s an old joke about a government farming representative traveling farm to farm, urging farmers to attend an upcoming seminar. He knocks on one door and a wizened old farmer answers. “You’ll learn all sorts of new information and ideas for better farming,” gushes the rep.

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Hunton Privacy

MAY 15, 2016

As we previously reported , the Federal Aviation Administration’s (“FAA’s”) proposed “small drone rule” nears completion of the interagency review process, but one potential stumbling block has been removed, at least for now. On Tuesday, May 10, 2016, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit denied a request by the Electronic Privacy Information Center (“EPIC”) to review the FAA’s decision not to include privacy provisions in its Notice of Proposed Rulemaking for the Operation and Certific

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