Ephemerallaw
A legal blog focusing on information security and data privacy.
Author: William Morriss is an associate and Jane Shea is counsel at Frost Brown Todd in Cincinnati.
Blawg Related Categories: Internet Law • Science & Technology Law • Associate
Recent Posts from Ephemerallaw
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Observation on Legal Blogging
While looking at Hack-igations I noticed a fun little statement at the bottom of his post:[Again, all my blog comments are just public discussion and not legal advice for any particular situation.]He had one on…
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Protecting Privacy by Contract
I have long been on record as believing that modern contract law will essentially be the death of individual privacy - the basic argument being that people want their toys, so they'll click on abusive…
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Measuring the Effect of Security Breach Notification Laws
How do you measure the effectiveness of security breach notification laws? One way is to take data on how many consumers report that they were victims of an ID theft due to a security breach,…
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New Identity Theft Blog
One of the most difficult things about running a blog is finding good material. True, it seems there's a new data security breach every few days, but reporting that another million, or thousand, or ten…
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Always Go With the Original
Via The Dunning Letter, I learned about this paper which (according to Jack's post) says that data security breach notification laws don't actually work. When I first read the post discussing the paper, I was…
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Ephemeral Law Named to Top 100
Happy news for me today. Ephemeral law has been named as one of the top 100 civil liberties advocacy blogs by the criminal justice degrees guide. Now, of course, one could point out that Ephemeral…
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Value of Security Breach Notification Laws
This article from Computer World advances a position which I find truly bizarre: that security breach notification laws don't help people. The article's reasoning (and I use the term loosely) seems to be that notification…
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Facebook Accused of Violating Canadian Law
According to this article from Computer World, a complaint has been filed against Facebook for violating Canada's Personal Information and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA). If that law, and its rather unwieldy acronym, seem familiar, it…
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Well, he was asking for it...
Normally, someone getting their identity stolen isn't news. It's annoying for the victim, but not of great enough consequence for the rest of the world to bear reporting. However, in this case, the person who's…
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More Potential Legal Troubles for Google Streetview
Ever since its introduction, Google Streetview has raised concerns about privacy (see, e.g., here). Now, Streetview is being prepared for Europe, and apparently French law is presenting a problem. According to this article from Computer…