June 2014

China seems to have found a reliable legal tool for suppressing dissent.  A prominent Chinese human rights lawyer, Pu Zhiqiang, has been arrested after a meeting in a private home to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the killings at Tiananmen Square.  The charge?  “Illegal access to the personal information of citizens,” a crime punishable by

Here we go again.  A prominent company suffers a data breach.  The company publicly alerts its customers.  The company almost immediately finds itself the subject of inquiries from Congress and the target of investigations by regulators.  Before long, class action lawyers will crank out complaints as if they’re Mad Libs, filling in the name of