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Sarah Anderson
- Nov 15
- 3 min
Who Knew About Lloyd's New Cyber Policy Exclusions?
A U.S. mid-term election year was the perfect time (excluding a Presidential election year) to quietly issue a “Market Bulletin”...
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Sarah Anderson & Ashleigh Ward
- Nov 7
- 3 min
C-Suite: Is this Worth Risking My Personal Freedom?
The October 5, 2022, conviction of Uber’s former Chief Security Officer (CSO) Joe Sullivan, ironically a former cybercrimes prosecutor...
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Sarah Anderson
- Oct 17
- 3 min
BNSF Cyber Law Failure Elicits $228M Verdict
In December 2018, a former law partner asked me “Are you proposing cyber law as a transactional or litigation practice?” Actively...
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Julian Mahfouz
- Aug 15
- 4 min
Beware of Super App
According to internal data, Google recently claimed that over 40% of Generation Z is using Tik Tok and Instagram over Google’s search...
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Sarah Anderson & Julian Mahfouz
- Jul 27
- 3 min
North Koreans Posing as U.S. I.T. Job Applicants
In the past, bad actors stole personally identifiable information (PII) for a few specific uses. Credit fraud was the principal culprit,...
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Julian Mahfouz
- Jul 25
- 3 min
Recent Executive Order Does Not Improve Health Privacy
On June 24, 2022, the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Org., 142...
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Julian Mahfouz
- Jul 7
- 3 min
The Bot Scraping Problem
Bot scraping is a decade-old plague for search engines without a cure. This practice allows content thieves to sidestep copyright law, by...
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Sarah Anderson
- Jun 30
- 3 min
Cohesion & Accuracy
If ever forced to read Thomas Paine’s bestselling Common Sense pamphlet during American History class, his posit that “It is not in...
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Sarah Anderson
- Jun 27
- 3 min
SLTTs: It's Time to Collect on those Federal Promises
While generally opposed to categorical rules, any intelligent individual should appreciate the importance of cybersecurity. A failure to...
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Sarah Anderson & Julian Mahfouz
- Jun 17
- 3 min
Class Actions: Invest in Dark Web Scans
When data is leaked in or following a breach, many courts do not consider the attenuated and hypothesized chain of events between the...
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Sarah Anderson & Julian Mahfouz
- Jun 11
- 3 min
A.I. Not Yet an Inventor, but Maybe in the Future?
Recently, a Missouri physicist attempted to introduce a new player in the field of innovation: his self-invented artificial intelligence...
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Sarah Anderson & Julian Mahfouz
- Jun 7
- 3 min
TikTok’s Privacy Suit Battles Near $100 Million in Damages
TikTok, a social media giant known for allowing its user to upload short videos, continues to battle its reputation for consumer privacy...
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Sarah Anderson & Julian Mahfouz
- May 26
- 3 min
$63M for OPM Data Breach Victims Pending Approval
The Office of Personal Management (“OPM”), one of the federal government’s largest human resource management entities, and their former...
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Julian Mahfouz
- May 19
- 3 min
5 States of Consumer Privacy
In two years, 5 states passed consumer privacy acts, which in “law” time (especially with a pandemic), is fast. Beginning with...
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Sarah Anderson
- May 4
- 3 min
Cyber Negligence is a Real Claim
Despite limited case law, U.S. Courts consistently treat cryptocurrency like any other movable or intangible product. Although the...
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Sarah Anderson
- Apr 25
- 3 min
Surveillance: What's an Intrusion?
With litigation, private investigators, Google Alerts, and social media monitoring are common devices by which to uncover facts and...
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Sarah Anderson
- Apr 11
- 3 min
Fitting Cyber into Federal Procedure: Square Peg, Round Hole
A client sent me Cyberscoop’s article about the Department of Justice’s successful efforts to stop a Russian Botnet called “Cyclops...
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Sarah Anderson
- Apr 7
- 3 min
Old Fashioned Interpleader: A Solution to Cryptocurrency Disputes
A law school professor once said that if any question starts with “Can a federal judge….,” the answer was always “yes.” Originally...
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Sarah Anderson
- Mar 28
- 3 min
3 Weeks of Intense Cyber Activity
Few believed Dr. Michael Burry when he predicted the 2007 mortgage crises that eventually crippled the U.S. economy and destroyed a Wall...
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