Cybercrime Law

News, analysis and commentary on information security, privacy and compliance issues.

Author: Dimo Michailov is an associate at Bingham McCutchen in Washington, D.C.

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Recent Posts from Cybercrime Law

Virginia Supreme Court Strikes Down State’s Anti-Spam Law
This just in, from the Washington Post. "The Virginia Supreme Court today invalidated the state’s "anti-spam" law, designed to prevent the sending of masses of unwanted e-mail, by saying the law broadly violated the First…
Travelers’ Laptops May Be Detained At Border
From the Washington Post: Federal agents may take a traveler’s laptop or other electronic device to an off-site location for an unspecified period of time without any suspicion of wrongdoing, as part of border search…
File Sharing Data Breach
We have written in the past of the dangers of file sharing not so much from copyright prosecution point (although the dangers are real) but so much from having the file sharing software "incidentally" share…
No download? Maybe no infringement in another Federal District Court
This article is related to a prior post, found here: Courts split In another blow to the recording industry, a Federal District Court Judge in the District of Minnesota in Capitol Records, Inc. v. Jammie…
CAN-SPAM Rules Modified
Yesterday, May 12th, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) released a new rule under the CAN-SPAM Act. The new rule seeks to clarify some of the requirements CAN-SPAM imposes on senders of bulk email. First, an…
CFAA Damages Calculation Includes Cost of Tracking Hacker
A decision from the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California held that the costs associated with the tracking and discovery of the identity of the person who stole proprietary information from a…
Courts split on whether making a copyrighted song available for download violates copyright law.
A recent pair of federal district court decisions are split on whether making copyrighted songs available for download violates copyright laws even when there is no proof that the copyrighted works were ever downloaded…
How to Respond to Data Breach
Data breaches happen every day and, unfortunately, we are getting so used to hearing news about the most recent breach that it no longer creates an interesting report. Most businesses of any significance will, soon…
Border Agents Can Search Laptops
We have written in the past about the freedom of border agents to search laptops at the border crossing points. A new opinion (PDF) in United States v. Arnold by the Ninth Circuit Court of…
What is your return address?
Many emails happily reach their final and intended destination. But there are some emails which arrive where they are not intended to. There are two recent stories which suggest not only how people should be…