The Emerging Business Advocate
Dedicated to addressing current issues that affect emerging companies in a global economy.
Author: Seaton M. Daly is a solo practitioner in Seattle.
Blawg Related Categories: Consumer Law • Corporate Law • Corporate Compliance • Solo / Small Firm • Business Law
Recent Posts from The Emerging Business Advocate
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Information on Congressional Ethics Probe Released Via Security Breach
Members of Congress are being investigated for possible ethics violations, and the names of those individuals under investigation were leaked when a junior staff member, working from home, improperly placed a document listing all the…
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Microsoft and Google Highlight the Difficulty in Finding a 'Standard of Care' in the Clouds
The Redmond-based software giant, Microsoft, Corp., (MSFT), announced today that it will be getting its suite of hosted messaging and collaboration products certified to the ISO 27001 international standard for information security. Interestingly, Google, Inc.,…
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Ruling by Maine's Supreme Court Could Help Consumers in Data Breach Class Action Litigation
A strong majority of courts across the United States, both federal and state, have taken a common stance when it comes to addressing data breaches related to customer financial information (i.e. name, address, social security…
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Data Leakage, (Realized) Organizational Viability, & Corporate Executive Liability
Imagine one of the following scenarios: (1) details about ABC Company's latest strategic development plan has ended up on a popular Internet Web Site, to which ABC Company is now forced to scrap the…
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Putting Patient Records Online: Do the Incentives Account for the Risks?
In The New York Times today, Steve Lohr wrote an article about how the drive towards making patient records available online has taken a huge step forward by a major New York regional hospital…
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City of Medina, WA, Erodes Our Right to Privacy
Back on June 30th of this year, I wrote a blog entry about how shocked I was to see a sign posted on the city limits of Medina, WA, which informed all incoming motorists that…
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The New York Times Web Site Breached Over the Weekend
The New York Times reported today that over the weekend an unknown group of people placed a rogue advertisement onto the Web site's homepage. The malicious ad took over the browsers of many people…
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Twittering While At Work - What are Business Owners to do?
As the Twitter phenomenom continues to explode, and more and more people feel the necessary urge to tell the entire world what they are doing at every exact moment, one major issues continues to…
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'John Doe' Lawsuits: Stop Trying to Fix the 'Systems', Fix the People
A lawyer out of Virginia seems to think that he has found a way to sue those ellusive hackers that roam cyberspace looking for opportunities to steal information and profit from it. However, are…
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Starbucks Class Action Case Dismissed
Today, in Federal Court for the Western District of Washington, Judge Richard Jones dismissed two class actions that were filed against coffee giant Starbucks, Corporation. I had been following these two cases closely (Krottner…