The so-called "Year 2000 Problem" (also known as the "Millennium Bug") has captured the attention of the media and the general public in a way that is unprecedented in the mundane world of corporate computing. Despite the glee with which the media ...
E-mail is a staple of corporate culture. While e-mail has greatly increased the potential for better business communication and information access, it has its downside. Few employers have yet to fully appreciate the extent to which company e-mail ...
In the last few weeks there have been significant developments regarding state statutes governing unsolicited commercial e-mail. As discussed below, a California court held provisions of that state’s statute unconstitutional. In Colorado, the ...
Janet Jackson began the year with the moment that shocked the world. The now infamous "costume malfunction" at the 2004 Super Bowl caused massive public outrage prompting Congress to quickly introduce the Broadcast Decency Enforcement Act which ...
The last several years have witnessed an increasingly intense debate over the rights of individuals to protect the privacy of their personal data. That debate is fueled in part, but not exclusively, by growing concern over the privacy of ...
In the not-too-distant past industrial espionage consisted of photocopying and carting out files. Identity theft, a rare crime until recent years, happened when someone's wallet was stolen by a pickpocket. The computer and the Internet have ...
Over the past two or three years, we have heard more about the "Millennium Bug," "Y2K," and the "Year 2000 Problem" than we ever wanted to. The striking thing about the subject is the dichotomy between the opinions on the ultimate effect it may have ...
The Internet is evolving at an astonishing rate. Few, if any, of its original creators could have envisioned the multitude of uses and the growing reliance on the .network of networks.. With this increased dependance is a concomitant desire for ...
Reprinted from Thelen Reid & Priest International Business Transactions Newsletter, August 1998 On October 24, 1998 the European Commission's Privacy Directive went into effect, a development which could have a dramatic effect on the way data is ...
The explosion of Internet commerce is staggering. The U.S. Department of Commerce estimates that Internet retailing exceeded $7 billion in 1998 and online sales will range between $40 billion and $80 billion by 2002. Many forecasters now estimate ...