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Companies Prepare For Waves of Data Breach Lawsuits
Data breaches are inevitable. And no amount of security protocols can provide absolute assurance that consumer information is protected. With increasing threats of identity theft, who should be responsible for the majority of data breach risk, the consumer or the business? California lawmakers argue that the majority of that burden…
The Evolving Price of User Data to Businesses
Thanks to groundbreaking legislation like the CCPA and CPRA, opt-out requests and other privacy rights are starting to put a price tag on user data. Many businesses are aware of the consumer’s rights, but they do not know their own. Exercising these rights is a form of negotiation, and how…
The Real Value of Trust in The SaaS Industry
Cloud computing and SaaS are innovations that were bound to happen. Just like the internet and the steam engine. Yet, most Thanksgiving conversations about SaaS Vendors are met with vacant expressions. Despite its lack of sex appeal, corporate spending on cloud computing services has grown from 1 billion in 2009…
Protecting E-Commerce Marketing Content and Photos Through Copyright Registration
USING THE US COPYRIGHT PROCESS TO PROTECT YOUR E-COMMERCE BUSINESS
At TOSlawyer.com we regularly get calls from our e-com clients about unscrupulous businesses stealing/copying our client’s photos or marketing content. As an online retailer your content IS the cornerstone of your business because it’s how you sell products and generally if your marketing content is good it wasn’t cheap to create.
Five US states that define data breach to include access
With the increasing incidences of consumer data breaches, entreaties for stronger data privacy protections and regulations have grown stronger. As per the US federal government’s reluctance to salvage the situation, many of the 50 US state governments appear to have taken the bull by its horn. These states’ have, through…
Relation of intermediary liability to data breaches
How is intermediary liability related to data breaches? Intermediary liability refers to the legal culpability of internet intermediaries in respect of the illegitimate, illegal, or harmful activities carried out by their users. For such culpability to arise, such user(s) must have performed such illegitimate activity(ies) through the intermediary’s offered service….