Legal Technology Today

1. Google ‘smart glasses’ reportedly launching this year – latimes.com (Nathan Olivarez-Giles)
   Just as an Internet connection has made our phones smarter and is in the process of making our TVs smarter, soon your glasses may be smarter too, thanks to a project from Google that could be a breakthrough in wearable computing. The tech giant’s secretive Google X lab is reportedly developing a pair of “smart [...]
2. Microsoft Files EU Antitrust Claim Against Motorola Mobility – BusinessWeek
   Microsoft Corp. filed a complaint with European antitrust regulators saying Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc. and Google Inc. are trying to block sales of personal computers and game consoles that run its software. Motorola Mobility is violating a pledge to license industry-standard patents on fair terms and “demanding that Microsoft take its products off the market,” [...]
3. Users don’t bother changing default passwords
   Most people working with sensitive information want stricter security policies but rarely bother changing default, automatically generated and assigned passwords. To collect the responses, ElcomSoft was running a questionnaire during the last few months. After gathering a statistically significant sample, the company discovered interesting information about its customers’ habits and preferences in regards to IT [...]
4. Conflicts Arise When Complying With U.S. and E.U. Laws | Corporate Counsel (Catherine Dunne)
   As companies in the U.S. work to comply with laws such as the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), they often conduct internal investigations that rely, in part, on collecting information from employees, such as documents and emails. It’s all perfectly legal in the U.S., but it can quickly lead to potential conflict when in-house lawyers [...]
5. R-E-S-P-E-C-T, Cross-Border E-discovery : Privacy Law Blog (Nolan Goldberg)
   Litigants navigating the conflict between U.S. discovery obligations and foreign data protection laws have a new ally, the American Bar Association (“the ABA”). The ABA recently passed Resolution 103, which “urges” that: [W]here possible in the context of the proceedings before them, U.S. federal, state, territorial, tribal and local courts consider and respect, as appropriate, the [...]
6. Transborder Data Flows at Risk : Info Law Group (W Scott Blackmer)
   Physical borders may be technically irrelevant in the age of online business, global corporate groups, and cloud computing, but they retain legal and cultural significance. Some recent developments in data privacy law around the world suggest that the “free flow of information” is becoming more conditional, and that enterprises will have to be nimble to [...]
7. Microsoft Office app coming to iPad? | Signal Strength – CNET News
   Microsoft Office Suite may soon come to the Apple iPad, according to a report by The Daily. On Tuesday, the blog reported that its sources say that an Microsoft app that will include Office programs, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint will soon be submitted to the Apple App Store. The blog first noted the existence of [...]
8. U.S. senators seek clarity on foreign bribery law | Reuters (Aruna Viswanatha)
   Two Democratic senators urged the U.S. Justice Department on Thursday to explain what it considers a bribe of a foreign official, saying the lack of clarity has led companies to devote disproportionate resources to complying with the law. Senator Chris Coons of Delaware and Senator Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota asked Attorney General Eric Holder to [...]
9. Security in the Cloud Is All About Visibility and Control | CFOworld (Thor Olavsrud)
   It’s an oft-repeated mantra: Organizations engaged in or investigating cloud computing in any of its many flavors are concerned about security. In fact, concerns about security, data privacy and data residency are often cited as inhibitors to cloud adoption. But are the concerns justified? Some security experts say visibility and control are the missing elements. [...]
10. Tech Insight: Getting The Picture With Data Visualization – Dark Reading (John Sawyer)
    Security pros responsible for log analysis and digital forensic investigations today have so much data to analyze that it can be difficult to make heads or tails of it without the proper tools to parse, prioritize, and identify the valuable information. Sometimes obscure log entries can be easily deciphered with a simple search on the [...]