Category: legislation

The highly debated Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) was passed by the House of Representatives on Thursday on a bipartisan vote of 287-127, with 18 representatives not voting. This bill is meant to help prevent cyber attacks by allowing companies and the government to share cybersecurity information with one another. According to Alex [...]

If a company is breached, should the breach be reported to authorities? To customers? To the public? While breach disclosure laws have been debated on and off for the past few years, it looks like they are making it back into the spotlight. Many companies would prefer to keep security breaches to themselves – to [...]

The Washington Post describers the cybersecurity bill as, “a bill that would encourage companies and the federal government to share information collected on the Internet to help prevent electronic attacks from cybercriminals, foreign governments and terrorists.” What is the opposition?“The White House, along with a coalition of liberal and conservative groups and some lawmakers, strongly [...]

Starting May 26, the EU began enforcing its E-Privacy Directive that passed last year. This directive requires that websites notify all individuals in the EU about any tracking that takes place on the site and receive consent before carrying out the tracking (i.e. tags, cookies). What does this new directive mean for businesses? So many [...]