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Michael Daugherty is the founder of The Justice Society and CEO of LabMD. Epstein court documents unsealed

Michael Daugherty is the founder of The Justice Society and CEO of LabMD. Epstein court documents unsealed

Michael Daugherty is the founder of The Justice Society and  CEO of LabMD. At Black Hat Cybersecurity conference in Las Vegas China. CCP. Cybersecurity

Michael J. Daugherty, is the President of LabMD, an Atlanta-based clinical and anatomic medical laboratory as well as CEO of AnyLabTestNow in Virginia. The silence of the media of their corrupt friends vs their disproportionate faux moral outrage of their political opponents.  THE TUCKER CARLSON SMEAR CAMPAIGN 

BIOGRAPHY Attorney Benjamin Wright helps others navigate the law of technology.  He teaches the class Law of Data Security and Investigations for SANS Institute, the premier authority for training information security professionals and digital forensics experts. That 5-day boot camp is unique in the world. It trains professionals on how to manage cyber law risk across the globe. Wright advises clients -- in the US and throughout the world -- on privacy, e-discovery, data breaches, online contracting, technology contracts, active defense, forensic investigations, and cyber security policies. Ben helps tech professional firms write engagement contracts, and otherwise manage their legal liability and right to be paid. Such firms include QSAs, auditors, penetration testers, and forensic investigators.  Ben is spotlighted in the book "The Devil Inside the Beltway" for his uncommonly insightful advice to LabMD in its now famous information security law dispute. Wright is the author of the book "The Law of Electronic Commerce" (Wolters Kluwer).Find us on LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram or email us at cyberside@epiqglobal.com. 

Michael J. Daugherty, is the President of LabMD, an Atlanta-based clinical and anatomic medical laboratory as well as CEO of AnyLabTestNow in Virginia. The hypocrisy of the indictment and Trumps approval ratings 

Michael J. Daugherty, is the President of LabMD, an Atlanta-based clinical and anatomic medical laboratory as well as CEO of AnyLabTestNow in Virginia. Biden Files. Davos. Debt Ceiling.

Michael J. Daugherty, is the President of LabMD, an Atlanta-based clinical and anatomic medical laboratory as well as CEO of AnyLabTestNow in Virginia. Whitmer. Arizona election integrity.  

Cyber law expert, attorney, and SANS instructor, Ben Wright joins hosts Jerich Beason & Whitney McCollum to discuss a variety of topics, including Ben's career path into cyber law and teaching, the pros and cons of having a cyber whistleblower, and the importance of the investigation and knowledge of the impacted company. We talked about the need for cyber security education for all lawyers, how cyber risk should be foundational to legal training and education, and how that could be implemented.  As a lawyer working in the field for decades, Ben explores with us why knowledge of cyber risk is important for lawyers not only to protect client data, but also for advising clients? Who gets access to your firm's information systems? What are the laws and implications around those systems? Should CLE credits on cyber topics be required?   Ben also offers his tips on managing the possibility of cyber whistleblowers within an enterprise and having a process in place to effectively manage internal reporting of concerns. Do limited resources and shortage of talent contribute to whistleblowing? What affect does the social and digital media landscape have on the motivations of whistleblowers?  Learn all this and more in today's episode.  Links from this show: Bloomberg Law "Analysis: Mandatory Cybersecurity CLE Credits – At a Bar Near You” https://news.bloomberglaw.com/bloomberg-law-analysis/analysis-mandatory-cybersecurity-cle-credits-at-a-bar-near-you   Wall Street Journal “Cybersecurity Whistleblowers are Growing Corporate Challenge” https://www.wsj.com/articles/cybersecurity-whistleblowers-are-growing-corporate-challenge-1526403513?tesla=y   Note: “The statements of the guest speakers and hosts in this podcast should not be construed as legal advice.  They represent their views only and not those of Epiq or their respective employers.” BIOGRAPHY Attorney Benjamin Wright helps others navigate the law of technology.  He teaches the class Law of Data Security and Investigations for SANS Institute, the premier authority for training information security professionals and digital forensics experts. That 5-day boot camp is unique in the world. It trains professionals on how to manage cyber law risk across the globe. Wright advises clients -- in the US and throughout the world -- on privacy, e-discovery, data breaches, online contracting, technology contracts, active defense, forensic investigations, and cyber security policies. Ben helps tech professional firms write engagement contracts, and otherwise manage their legal liability and right to be paid. Such firms include QSAs, auditors, penetration testers, and forensic investigators. Ben is spotlighted in the book "The Devil Inside the Beltway" for his uncommonly insightful advice to LabMD in its now famous information security law dispute. Wright is the author of the book "The Law of Electronic Commerce" (Wolters Kluwer). Find us on LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram or email us at cyberside@epiqglobal.com. 

One day in 2008, Michael Daugherty - CEO and owner of LabMD, a cancer detection lab - got a call from an executive of TiVera, a cybersecurity company. The caller said that a file containing private medical data of some 9000 of LabMD's patients has been discovered online. When Michael refused to pay for TiVersa's hefty "consultation fee", it reported the incident to the FTC. This was the beginning of a ten-year-long legal battle that ultimately destroyed LabMD - but cost the Federal Agency dearly.

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Michael J. Daugherty, is the President of LabMD, an Atlanta-based clinical and anatomic medical laboratory as well as CEO of AnyLabTestNow in Virginia. American Lambs: cute.dumb.afraid

Michael J. Daugherty, is the President of LabMD, an Atlanta-based clinical and anatomic medical laboratory as well as CEO of AnyLabTestNow in Virginia. American Lambs: Cute. Dumb. Afraid

Michael J. Daugherty, is the President of LabMD, an Atlanta-based clinical and anatomic medical laboratory as well as CEO of AnyLabTestNow in Virginia. Latest attack on Trump. Economy. Inflation.

Michael J. Daugherty, is the President of LabMD, an Atlanta-based clinical and anatomic medical laboratory as well as CEO of AnyLabTestNow in Virginia.

Michael J. Daugherty, is the President of LabMD, an Atlanta-based clinical and anatomic medical laboratory as well as CEO of AnyLabTestNow in Virginia. 

Michael J. Daugherty, is the President of LabMD, an Atlanta-based clinical and anatomic medical laboratory as well as CEO of AnyLabTestNow in Virginia.  Continued. 

Michael J. Daugherty, is the President of LabMD, an Atlanta-based clinical and anatomic medical laboratory as well as CEO of AnyLabTestNow in Virginia.  

Michael J. Daugherty, is the President of LabMD, an Atlanta-based clinical and anatomic medical laboratory as well as CEO of AnyLabTestNow in Virginia.    Continued.

Michael J. Daugherty, is the President of LabMD, an Atlanta-based clinical and anatomic medical laboratory as well as CEO of AnyLabTestNow in Virginia.   500 millions Covid tests were promised, but have not been delivered.

Michael J. Daugherty, is the President of LabMD, an Atlanta-based clinical and anatomic medical laboratory as well as CEO of AnyLabTestNow in Virginia.  Covid Testing Surges. Looking forward to 2022.

Michael J. Daugherty, is the President of LabMD, an Atlanta-based clinical and anatomic medical laboratory as well as CEO of AnyLabTestNow in Virginia.

Michael J. Daugherty, is the President of LabMD, an Atlanta-based clinical and anatomic medical laboratory as well as CEO of AnyLabTestNow in Virginia. Ransomware attacks could crimp industry's recovery from pandemic, report says

In this episode of Serious Privacy, Paul Breibarth and K Royal tackle the slew of development (or non-developments) in privacy around the world. What a week in privacy! We had the proposal for AI Regulation published in the EU, the UK adequacy opinion, and of course, several privacy bills in states around the US, and the United States Supreme Court decision in AMG Capital Management, LLC et al. v. Federal Trade Commission, decided the morning of the episode recording. The AI proposal has garnered much conversation, such as in this article by Politico and the summary by Dr. Gabriela Zanfir-Fortuna of the Future of Privacy Forum.  Paul and K discuss various aspects of the proposal including a few unexpected recommendations, or lack thereof. However, the UK adequacy opinion was not as surprising, but quite interesting. Once we turned to the US and state privacy bills, the end was near for several key states, and by the time this episode is live, we know that the Washington bill is dead once again. However, there remains hope for a couple of others given the dates of when sessions end, such as Florida - which we should know in a few days - it is scheduled for its third reading at this time. About 15 states still had bills at the time (see webinar on update by TrustArc on state privacy bills), and of course, the next legislative season may see more change. The FTC decision by the USSC was top of mind given its impact on FTC authority, which also led to discussions of the federal privacy bill by Rep. DelBene which proposes quite an expansion of FTC authority.  Please see this statement released by the FTC on the matter. This case was reminiscent of a prior case with LabMD (yes, different enforcement actions, but still speaking to FTC authority).Join us as we discuss these developments and more in this episode of Serious Privacy. As always, if you have comments or feedback, please contact us at seriousprivacy@trustarc.com.

This episode's interview with Dr. Peter Pry of the EMP Commission raises an awkward question: Is it possible that North Korea has already developed nuclear weapons that could cause the deaths of hundreds of millions of Americans by permanently frying the entire electrical infrastructure with a single high-altitude blast?  And if he doesn't, could the sun accomplish pretty much the same thing?  The common factor in both scenarios is EMP—electro-magnetic pulse. And we explore the problem in detail, from the capabilities of adversaries to the controversy that has pitted Dr. Pry and the EMP Commission against the power industry and the Energy Department, which are decidedly more confident that the U.S. would withstand a major EMP event. And, for those disinclined to trust those sources, Dr. Pry offers a few tips on how to make it more likely that your systems will survive an EMP. In the news, that the election turned out not to be hacked and not to be violence-plagued and not to be the subject of serious disinformation. That didn't stop Twitter and YouTube from limiting Steve Bannon's access to the platform when he used hyperbole (“heads on pikes”) to express his unhappiness with Dr. Fauci. In legal tech news, Michael Weiner explains what's at stake in the Justice Department's antitrust lawsuit challenging Visa's $5.3 billion acquisition of Plaid. I wonder if that means the department is out of antitrust-litigating ammo.  And it might, except you can buy a lot of ammo with $1 billion worth of Silk Road bitcoins, now being claimed by the U.S. Sultan Meghji says the real question is why it took the U.S. so long to lay claim to the coins. Just when private companies have come up with plans to comply with California's privacy law, the voters change everything. Well, maybe not everything. It looks, Dan Podair suggests, as though compliance with the new CPRA will mostly involve complying with the old CCPA plus a whole bunch more. I'm fascinated by the idea that the initiatives say, “Oh, and by the way, this law can't be amended except to make it more privacy friendly.” We bring Michael back to the conversation to brief us on the FTC's plan to bring an antitrust case against Facebook using internal hearing procedure. Michael admits that some might call that a kangaroo court hearing; I suggest that LabMD's Mike Dougherty be called as an expert witness. Sultan and I note the ongoing failure of media and rights groups to toxify facial recognition; now it's being used on “mostly peaceful” protestors. And it's hard to argue with using face recognition when it confirms a picture ID left behind in Lafayette Square. Next, Sultan and I take on Toxification II, the argument to make people believe that racist—as opposed to poorly trained—artificial intelligence is a thing. Charles Helleputte analyzes the latest rumor that the EU is planning to prohibit end-to-end crypto. He notes that the EU is also pursuing more infrastructure security and wonders whether the two initiatives can be sustained together. It turns out that other people on Zoom can, in theory and under the right conditions, guess what you're typing.  It's one more reason to be careful about webcams and security. I make the sort of cheap joke you've come to expect from me. And more. Download the 337th Episode (mp3) You can subscribe to The Cyberlaw Podcast using iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, Pocket Casts, or our RSS feed. As always, The Cyberlaw Podcast is open to feedback. Be sure to engage with @stewartbaker on Twitter. Send your questions, comments, and suggestions for topics or interviewees to CyberlawPodcast@steptoe.com. Remember: If your suggested guest appears on the show, we will send you a highly coveted Cyberlaw Podcast mug! The views expressed in this podcast are those of the speakers and do not reflect the opinions of their institutions, clients, friends, families, or pets.

Michael J. Daughtery- President of LabMD- Discusses the testing measures and protocols as the BIG gets ready to play in October.

#VoteBURGESSforCongressUTAH Burgess Owens Utah Congressional Candidate Super Bowl Champion Author Liberalism or How to turn good men into whiners wienies and wimps. A true principled conservative who is also the lefts worst nightmare being a successful black entrepreneur who came out of football and found himself broke and turned that around. Grew up in the projects and had success from there as well. #CivilWar Dr Steve Turley Host of Dr Turley Talks discusses the radical left and their apparent push to start a civil war in America. #COVIDLiesBig10 Michael Daugherty President of LabMD author of The Devil Inside the Beltway discusses the Michigan decision to shut down the football conference season, Also we discuss the ruors about possible indictments tomorrow. #TruthOnTheStreets #MurderPortland Carmen Estel joins us to discuss the death of Jay Daniels who was murdered on the street in Portland. His killer was supposedly gunned down by authorities but many questions remain and social media has taken down all people and sites related to Patriot Prayer and Jay.

Ryan gives updates on more primary results as they come in. Then, Michael Daugherty, the President of LabMD, joins Ryan to talk about the Coivd-19 Vaccine and the liability of the drug companies and what they're offering. 

Michael J. Daugherty- President of LabMD- The head of the Atlanta base company discusses when we will see vaccine for Covid-19.

Michael J. Daugherty, is the President of LabMD, an Atlanta-based clinical and anatomic medical laboratory as well as CEO of AnyLabTestNow in Virginia. LabMD specializes in analysis and diagnosis of blood, urine, and tissue specimens for cancers, micro-organisms and tumor markers. He has 20 years experience in diagnostic laboratory medicine. He is author of The Devil Inside the Beltway: The Shocking Expose of the US Government's Surveillance and Overreach Into Cybersecurity, Medicine and Small Business. U.S. health officials and drugmakers expect to start producing potential coronavirus vaccine doses by the end of the summer, a senior administration official said Monday. The U.S. is aiming to deliver 300 million doses of a vaccine for Covid-19 by early 2021. The manufacturing process is already underway even though they aren’t sure which vaccine, if any, will work, a senior Trump administration official told reporters on a conference call Monday. He said they are already buying equipment, securing the manufacturing sites and, in some cases, acquiring the raw materials. “Exactly when the vaccine materials will be in production and manufacturing? It’s probably four to six weeks away,” the official said on the call, which was hosted by the Department of Health and Human Services. “But we will be actively manufacturing by the end of the summer.”

Michael J. Daugherty, is the President of LabMD, an Atlanta-based clinical and anatomic medical laboratory as well as CEO of AnyLabTestNow in Virginia. LabMD specializes in analysis and diagnosis of blood, urine, and tissue specimens for cancers, micro-organisms and tumor markers. He has 20 years experience in diagnostic laboratory medicine. He is author of The Devil Inside the Beltway: The Shocking Expose of the US Government's Surveillance and Overreach Into Cybersecurity, Medicine and Small Business. U.S. health officials and drugmakers expect to start producing potential coronavirus vaccine doses by the end of the summer, a senior administration official said Monday. The U.S. is aiming to deliver 300 million doses of a vaccine for Covid-19 by early 2021. The manufacturing process is already underway even though they aren’t sure which vaccine, if any, will work, a senior Trump administration official told reporters on a conference call Monday. He said they are already buying equipment, securing the manufacturing sites and, in some cases, acquiring the raw materials. “Exactly when the vaccine materials will be in production and manufacturing? It’s probably four to six weeks away,” the official said on the call, which was hosted by the Department of Health and Human Services. “But we will be actively manufacturing by the end of the summer.”

Derek and Daugherty talk about the problems with testing for COVID-19 and how antibody testing could be a game-changer. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Valerie Trouet, a University of Arizona associate professor, joins host Ryan Wrecker to discuss her new book “Tree Story.” Michael Daugherty, CEO of the medical testing operation LabMD and author of “The Devil Inside the Beltway: The Shocking Expose of the US Government's Surveillance and Overreach Into Cyber-security, Medicine and Small Business,” discusses politicizing COVID-19. Listen to the show on Apple Podcasts? Leave us a 5-star review: apple.co/2Of49Bv and subscribe to Overnight America on other great apps like Radio.com If you like what you hear, we're live weeknights on KMOX 1120AM. We welcome your calls at 800-925-1120. Like and follow on Facebook: www.facebook.com/RyanWreckerRadio/ 

China's lack of transparency has slowed the development of better testing and the ultimate goal of developing a vaccine. Intelligence reports from five countries, including the United States, say China lied about human to human transmission and didn't hand over virus samples to the West. FOX's Trey Yingst speaks with Michael Daugherty, the President of LabMD on on how that information delay has hurt the development of a vaccine.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

China's lack of transparency has slowed the development of better testing and the ultimate goal of developing a vaccine. Intelligence reports from five countries, including the United States, say China lied about human to human transmission and didn't hand over virus samples to the West. FOX's Trey Yingst speaks with Michael Daugherty, the President of LabMD on on how that information delay has hurt the development of a vaccine.  

Southern Sense is conservative talk with Annie "The Radio Chick-A-Dee" Ubelis, as host and "CS" Bennett, co-host. Informative, fun, irreverent and politically incorrect, you never know where we'll go, but you'll love the journey! Southern-Sense.comLiz Harrington, GOP Spokesperson, GOP.com SegmentMichael Daugherty, author of "Devil Inside The Beltway" and founder of LabMD https://michaeljdaugherty.com/President of New York’s-Central Park South Civic Association, Michael Fischer, https://www.centralparkcivicassociation.com/Dedication: The Fallen Law Enforcement Officers in the Line of Duty from the COVID-19 Virus

Southern Sense is conservative talk with Annie "The Radio Chick-A-Dee" Ubelis, as host and "CS" Bennett, co-host.  Informative, fun, irreverent and politically incorrect, you never know where we'll go, but you'll love the journey!  Southern-Sense.comLiz Harrington, GOP Spokesperson, GOP.com SegmentMichael Daugherty, author of "Devil Inside The Beltway" and founder of LabMD https://michaeljdaugherty.com/President of New York’s-Central Park South Civic Association, Michael Fischer, https://www.centralparkcivicassociation.com/Dedication: The Fallen Law Enforcement Officers in the Line of Duty from the COVID-19 Virus

Southern Sense is conservative talk with Annie "The Radio Chick-A-Dee" Ubelis, as host and "CS" Bennett, co-host.  Informative, fun, irreverent and politically incorrect, you never know where we'll go, but you'll love the journey!  Southern-Sense.com Liz Harrington, GOP Spokesperson, GOP.com Segment Michael Daugherty, author of "Devil Inside The Beltway" and founder of LabMD https://michaeljdaugherty.com/ President of New York’s-Central Park South Civic Association, Michael Fischer, https://www.centralparkcivicassociation.com/ Dedication: The Fallen Law Enforcement Officers in the Line of Duty from the COVID-19 Virus

Southern Sense is conservative talk with Annie "The Radio Chick-A-Dee" Ubelis, as host and "CS" Bennett, co-host. Informative, fun, irreverent and politically incorrect, you never know where we'll go, but you'll love the journey! Southern-Sense.comLiz Harrington, GOP Spokesperson, GOP.com SegmentMichael Daugherty, author of "Devil Inside The Beltway" and founder of LabMD https://michaeljdaugherty.com/President of New York’s-Central Park South Civic Association, Michael Fischer, https://www.centralparkcivicassociation.com/Dedication: The Fallen Law Enforcement Officers in the Line of Duty from the COVID-19 Virus

Today it's all headlines and then a discussion with Michael Daugherty, CEO of LabMD and antibody testing. Then hour two is all discussions with you! Phone calls and more.

Cisco and Falzon Hour Broadcast in Politics Call in to speak with the host: Cisco Acosta, Mark Falzon, and guest (845) 262-0988 Join us tonight, at 9:00 pm eastern time, with our guest, CORONAVIRUS ANALYST: Michael J. Daugherty, is the President of LabMD, an Atlanta-based clinical and anatomic medical laboratory as well as CEO of AnyLabTestNow in Virginia. LabMD specializes in analysis and diagnosis of blood, urine, and tissue specimens for cancers, micro-organisms and tumor markers. He has 20 years experience in diagnostic laboratory medicine. He is author of The Devil Inside the Beltway: The Shocking Expose of the US Government's Surveillance and Overreach Into Cybersecurity, Medicine and Small Business. Daugherty is a government whistleblower by necessity, and CEO of a cancer detection laboratory by trade. A small business owner taking on federal agencies with courage that rivals David meets Goliath, Michael is on a tireless crusade to honor your constitutional rights and the rights of every U.S. citizen. Michael’s story of victimization by a cyber-security company linked to federal agencies is not unique. That he beat the government telling his story is. HE BEAT THE SWAMP.  In a play-by-play account of classic and corrupt government practices, Michael reveals his chilling tale about how our security is not the safety we think it is. His book, The Devil inside   Topics for discussion: Coronavirus and the CDC , Dr. Fauci and Deborah Birx relationship with Bill  Gates,  The Chinese biological warfare on the world.  Hosts: Cisco Acosta, Mark Falzon Show Writer: Doreen Ann Show Sponsor: Studentsforabetterfuture.com

Open phones on the news, and later in the hour Michael Daugherty, author of the DEVIL INSIDE THE BELTWAY - he won his case against the feds, which tried to crush his business LabMD. Now, is this really going to be the WORST week with Wu Flu?

CORONAVIRUS ANALYST: Michael J. Daugherty, is the President of LabMD, an Atlanta-based clinical and anatomic medical laboratory as well as CEO of AnyLabTestNow in Virginia. LabMD specializes in analysis and diagnosis of blood, urine, and tissue specimens for cancers, micro-organisms and tumor markers. He has 20 years experience in diagnostic laboratory medicine. He is author of The Devil Inside the Beltway: The Shocking Expose of the US Government's Surveillance and Overreach Into Cybersecurity, Medicine and Small Business.

Guests: Peter Morici, Economist, On to discuss the economy during the COVID-19 Coronavirus pandemic. Juanita Ingram, International Speaker, On to discuss living through a COVID-19 related quarantine in Taiwan. Michael Daugherty, President and CEO of LabMD, On to discuss possible COVID-19 vaccine posibilities. And ... your thoughts on the pandemic.

Nick Weaver and I debate Sens. Graham and Blumenthal's EARN IT Act, a proposal to require that social media firms follow best practices on preventing child abuse. If they don't, they won't get full Section 230 immunity from liability for recklessly allowing the abuse. Nick thinks the idea is ill-conceived and doomed to fail. I think there's a core of sense to the proposal, which simply asks that Silicon Valley firms who are reckless about child abuse on their networks pay for the social costs they're imposing. Since the bill gives the attorney general authority to modify the best practices submitted by a commission of industry, academic, and civic representatives, critics are sure that the final product will reduce corporate incentives to offer end-to-end encryption.  But before we get to that debate, Gus Hurwitz and I unpack the law and tactics behind Facebook's decision to pay $550 million to settle a facial recognition class action. And Klon Kitchen and Nick ponder the shocking corruption and coverup alleged in the case of a Harvard chemistry chairman being prosecuted for hiding the large sums he was getting from the Chinese government to boost its research into nanomaterials.  Klon gives us a feel for just how hard it can be to enforce Iranian sanctions, and the creativity that went into one app developer's evasion scheme.  Gus and Nick offer real hope that robocalling will start to get harder, and soon: DOJ has requested restraining orders to stop telephone companies from facilitating fraudulent robocalls; the FTC has put 19 VoIP providers on notice for facilitating robocalls; and SHAKEN/STIR is slowly making it harder to spoof a phone number. Gus asks a question that had never occurred to me, and certainly not to millions of homeowners who may have committed inadvertent felonies by installing Ring doorbell cameras. It turns out that Ring recordings may be illegal intercepts in states with all-party consent laws. At least that's what one enterprising New Hampshire defense lawyer is arguing. First they cock a snook at Brussels, and now this: The UK government is on a roll. It's proposing an IoT security law that Nick endorses with enthusiasm. Maryland, not so much: Klon critiques a proposed state law that would make ransomware illegal – and maybe ransomware research, too. In dog-bites-man news, the United Nations has suffered a breach – probably by a semi-competent government. Which doesn't narrow things down much, since as Nick observes, everyone but the Germans has probably pwned the UN. And the Germans are just being polite. A lot of old stories have come back for one more turn on stage: The Russian hacker that the Russian government was afraid would sing if extradited to the US has pleaded guilty here and is probably singing already. Avast has killed Jumpshot, its much-criticized data collection operation. The Bezosphone Saga continues, as Sen. Chris Murphy calls on the DNI and FBI to investigate the hacking allegations, and Bezos's girlfriend's brother is suing for defamation. Charges against the Iowa courthouse penetration testers have finally been dropped. LabMD's Mike Daugherty should probably hang up his cleats. He won a great victory over the FTC, but his racketeering suit against Tiversa and lawyers is officially time-barred. Finally, it turns out that the FBI has been investigating NSO Group since 2017, though without bringing charges, so far.  Download the 298th Episode (mp3). You can subscribe to The Cyberlaw Podcast using iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, Pocket Casts, or our RSS feed! As always, The Cyberlaw Podcast is open to feedback. Be sure to engage with @stewartbaker on Twitter. Send your questions, comments, and suggestions for topics or interviewees to CyberlawPodcast@steptoe.com. Remember: If your suggested guest appears on the show, we will send you a highly coveted Cyberlaw Podcast mug! The views expressed in this podcast are those of the speakers and do not reflect the opinions of the firm.

There's a fine line between legislation addressing deepfakes and legislation that is itself a deep fake. Nate Jones reports on the only federal legislation addressing the problem so far. I claim that it is well short of a serious regulatory effort—and pretty close to a fake law. In contrast, India seems serious about imposing liability on companies whose unbreakable end-to-end crypto causes harm, at least to judge from the howls of the usual defenders of such crypto. David Kris explains how the law will work. I ask why Silicon Valley gets to impose the externalities of encryption-facilitated crime on society without consequence when we'd never allow tech companies to say that society should pick up the tab for their pollution because their products are so cool. In related news, the FBI may be turning the Pensacola military terrorism attack into a slow-motion replay of the San Bernardino fight with Apple, this time with more top cover. Poor Nate seems to draw all the fake legislation in this episode. He explains a 2020 appropriations rider requiring the State Department to report on how it issues export licenses for cyber espionage capabilities; this is a follow-up to investigative reporting on the way such capabilities in the UAE ended up being used against human rights activists. As we agree, it's an interesting and likely unsolvable policy problem, so the legislation opts for the most meaningless of remedies, requiring the Directorate of Defense Trade Control to report “on cybertools and capabilities licensing, including licensing screening and approval procedures as well as compliance and enforcement mechanisms” within 90 days. Nate also gets to cover some decidedly un-fake requirements in the 2019 NDAA, limiting how defense contractors can use Chinese technology. The other shoe is about to drop, and if the first one was a baby shoe, the second is a Clydesdale's horseshoe. It's hard to call it fake, but the latest export control rule restricting sales of AI could hardly be narrower. Maury Shenk and I speculate that this is because a long-term turf war has broken out again in export control policy circles. Maury's money is on the business side of that fight, and the narrowness of the AI rule gives weight to his views. And here's some Christmas cheer for DOJ and national security officials: A federal district court presented Edward Snowden with a lump of coal—the only royalties it thought he deserved from a book that violated his nondisclosure agreement. Nate thinks it's time for me to buy one, but I'm waiting for appellate confirmation. Less festive news comes from the European Court of Justice's advocate general opinion in Schrems II, a case that could greatly complicate EU-US data transfers by purporting to put Europeans in charge of how the US defends itself from terrorism. Maury explains; I complain. David unpacks with clarity a complex Second Circuit decision on the constitutionality of FISA 702 collection. On the whole, Judge Lynch did a creditable job with a messy and unprecedented set of claims, though I question the wisdom of erecting a baroque mansion of judge-made procedures on a slippery foundation like the Fourth Amendment's requirement that searches be “reasonable.” And in short hits, Maury tells us that Italy has imposed a French-style revenue tax on Internet companies, and Russia claims that it has successfully tested the ability to disconnect from the Internet. Now if we could only get them to stay that way. Illinois has a new, mostly fake law imposing modest regulations on the use of AI in video job interviews. The TRACED Act rises above fakeness in attacking robocalls but just barely. And the FAA released an NPRM calling for a pretty serious requirement for remote ID of drones. And to put everyone back in the Christmas spirit, LabMD won nearly a million dollars in fees from the Federal Trade Commission for the FTC's bullheaded pursuit of the company despite the many flaws in its case. The master's opinion makes clear just how badly the FTC erred in hounding LabMD.   Download the 295th Episode (mp3). You can subscribe to The Cyberlaw Podcast using iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, Pocket Casts, or our RSS feed! As always, The Cyberlaw Podcast is open to feedback. Be sure to engage with @stewartbaker on Twitter. Send your questions, comments, and suggestions for topics or interviewees to CyberlawPodcast@steptoe.com. Remember: If your suggested guest appears on the show, we will send you a highly coveted Cyberlaw Podcast mug! The views expressed in this podcast are those of the speakers and do not reflect the opinions of the firm.

We open the episode with David Kris's thoughts on the two-years-late CFIUS investigation of TikTok, its Chinese owner, ByteDance, and ByteDance's US acquisition of the lip-syncing company Musical.ly. Our best guess is that this unprecedented reach-back investigation will end in a more or less precedented mitigation agreement. I cover the WhatsApp suit against NSO Group over the use of spyware on WhatsApp's network. I predict that this is going to be a highwire act given the applicable precedents on whether violating terms of service also violates the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. I also muse on whether NSO will find ways to make this a much less comfortable lawsuit for WhatsApp to pursue. I award the ACLU the prize for making a PR and fundraising mountain out of a molehill of a lawsuit. Matthew Heiman and I try to decide which took less effort – cutting and pasting the ACLU's generic FOIA complaint or cutting and pasting the ACLU's generic “Oh my God, it's a surveillance dystopia” press release.  I comment on a heart-warming story about a geek in Normal, Illinois, who runs the most successful ransomware-rescue site in the world – and is going broke doing it. Advice to DHS's CISA: Why not sponsor prizes for people who post ransomware decryptors with real impact?  Mark MacCarthy discusses the guidance provided by the Defense Innovation Board on building ethical AI. I complain that political correctness seems to outweigh things like, you know, winning wars. Matthew tells us that Israel is creating its own CFIUS-like panel, and we note the longstanding tension between the US and Israel over Chinese access to Israeli technology. David notes more decoupling: The Interior Department has grounded its entire drone fleet, citing the risk from Chinese manufacturers. Mark and I find common ground in thinking the Facebook got the political ad censorship question more right than wrong. Twitter rises to the challenge, naturally.  Matthew fills us in on a story suggesting that North Korea breached an Indian nuclear plant's network. He and I also briefly note that Georgia was the victim of a massive case of cyber vandalism. In updates of past stories, I cover Coalfire's persuasive critique of the sheriff who arrested the company's pentesters in an Iowa courthouse. In another even longer-running story, the latest and perhaps the last word on the LabMD-Tiversa-FTC imbroglio can be found in an excellent New Yorker story that leaves LabMD looking good, the FTC looking bad, and Tiversa looking like a candidate for criminal prosecution. Finally, David updates the story of the 2016 Uber hack that cost the company's chief security officer his job. It's also going to cost the hackers their freedom, as they plead guilty to CFAA violations.  Download the 285th Episode (mp3). You can subscribe to The Cyberlaw Podcast using iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, Pocket Casts, or our RSS feed! As always, The Cyberlaw Podcast is open to feedback. Be sure to engage with @stewartbaker on Twitter. Send your questions, comments, and suggestions for topics or interviewees to CyberlawPodcast@steptoe.com. Remember: If your suggested guest appears on the show, we will send you a highly coveted Cyberlaw Podcast mug! The views expressed in this podcast are those of the speakers and do not reflect the opinions of the firm.

It's MONDAY and Jeffy has stories for you from Brazil, Toy World and the U.S. Also if you are looking for a business idea you might want to open a soap store in Brazil. SOMETHING IS COMING! Also Kris Cruz is BACK! MEASLES OUTBREAK ANALYST: Michael Daugherty, is President & CEO of LabMD, an Atlanta-based clinical and anatomic medical laboratory with a national client base. LabMD specializes in analysis and diagnosis of blood, urine, and tissue specimens for cancers, micro-organisms and tumor markers. He has 15 years experience in diagnostic medicine.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

As Venezuela endured one of its worst blackouts in recent memory this week, the government claimed the widespread outage of power, phone and internet were due to a foreign cyber-attack attempting to unseat Maduro. Mike Daugherty, CEO of LabMD and author of The Devil Inside the Beltway: The Shocking Expose of the US Government's Surveillance and Overreach Into Cyber-security, Medicine and Small Business, will join me. David Dorsen, who was Assistant Chief Counsel during the Watergate Hearings and is the author of the book, Moses v. Trump: A Contemporary Novel, will join me to discuss his take on Mueller, Comey, McCabe, and Michael Cohen and we’ll discuss the book as well.

As Venezuela endured one of its worst blackouts in recent memory this week, the government claimed the widespread outage of power, phone and internet were due to a foreign cyber-attack attempting to unseat Maduro. Mike Daugherty, CEO of LabMD and author of The Devil Inside the Beltway: The Shocking Expose of the US Government's Surveillance and Overreach Into Cyber-security, Medicine and Small Business, will join me. David Dorsen, who was Assistant Chief Counsel during the Watergate Hearings and is the author of the book, Moses v. Trump: A Contemporary Novel, will join me to discuss his take on Mueller, Comey, McCabe, and Michael Cohen and we’ll discuss the book as well.

Michael J. Daugherty/LabMD and The Cyber Education Foundation Mike Daugherty is the CEO of LabMD, a cancer testing laboratory. He has spent most of the last decade defending his company against charges that it had deficient cyber-security practices. The early years of his entering and fighting Washington, DC, are recorded in his book The Devil […] The post Michael Daugherty with LabMD and The Cyber Education Foundation appeared first on Business RadioX ®.

In our inaugural episode, the Relativity gang is joined by guest Tim Kennedy of McDermott Will & Emery LLP. The topic of the day is innovation (RIP Bates stamp), which somehow has to do with a law firm called Wang, hand models, and Hot Wheels. Cases discussed include Carpenter v. United States and LabMD, Inc. v. FTC.

What if I told you that there are companies out there who deliberately spoof data breaches in order to blackmail their “customers” into paying for their “breach remediation services”? What if I told you that, after failing to be a good little victim to such a scam, LabMD began hearing from the Federal Trade Commission about its security and technology practices? Would you believe me if I said that, in a battle that is now in its 17thyear, our guest has attempted the impossible and stood up to the crooks and the FTC? Rather than settle a case that he knew was wrong, our guest refused to live in the world he was given. He has battled to change that world and keep his company’s name and his own name from being steamrolled by the bureaucracy of a government agency that may not really know what they are doing when it comes to data privacy and security. Joining Matt Stephenson on the InSecurity podcast are Mike Daugherty and Malcolm Harkins. Mike is the CEO of LabMD who refused to be the victim of a shady “Breach Mediation” company, which led to a decade long battle with the Federal Trade Commission. Malcolm is the Chief Security & Trust Officer at Cylance. He is not one to sit idly by and let the cybersecurity industry focus on profits over people. Imagine what might happen when you get these two in a room together… About Mike Daugherty Mike Daugherty is embroiled in the biggest regulatory cybersecurity legal battle in the country today. The CEO of LabMD, a cancer testing laboratory, author, speaker, consultant and policy advocate, he has spent most of the last decade defending his company against charges that it had deficient cybersecurity practices. The early years of his entering and fighting Washington, DC, are recorded in his book, The Devil Inside the Beltway. In so doing, he has become the only litigant to challenge the basic authority that underlies more than 200 enforcement actions relating to cybersecurity and online privacy that the FTC has brought over the past 15 years. Every one of the 200+ litigants before him – including some of the largest companies in the world – have settled with the FTC, creating an unquestioned and untested belief that the FTC has broad authority to regulate in these areas. Following oral arguments in June, 2017, before a panel of the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals, on June 6, 2018, he actually prevailed. In so doing, he toppled key pillars of the FTC’s cybersecurity and online privacy edifice, successfully exposing and challenging The Administrative State. The cybersecurity regulatory framework for all of industry has been flipped on its head. About Malcolm Harkins As the Chief Security and Trust Officer at Cylance, Malcolm Harkins (@ProtectToEnable) is responsible for all aspects of information risk and security, security and privacy policy, and for peer outreach activities to drive improvement across the world in the understanding of cyber risks and best practices to manage and mitigate those risks. Previously, he was Vice President and Chief Security and Privacy Officer at Intel Corp. In that role, Malcolm was responsible for managing the risk, controls, privacy, security and other related compliance activities for all of Intel's information assets, products and services About Matt Stephenson Insecurity Podcast host Matt Stephenson(@packmatt73) leads the Security Technology team at Cylance, which puts him in front of crowds, cameras, and microphones all over the world. He is the regular host of the InSecurity podcastand host of CylanceTV Twenty years of work with the world’s largest security, storage, and recovery companies has introduced Stephenson to some of the most fascinating people in the industry. He wants to get those stories told so that others can learn from what has come before. Every week on the InSecurity Podcast, Matt interviews leading authorities in the security industry to gain an expert perspective on topics including risk management, security control friction, compliance issues, and building a culture of security. Each episode provides relevant insights for security practitioners and business leaders working to improve their organization’s security posture and bottom line. To hear more, visit: ThreatVector InSecurity Podcasts: https://threatvector.cylance.com/en_us/category/podcasts.html  iTunes/Apple Podcasts link: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/insecurity/id1260714697?mt=2 GooglePlay Music link: https://play.google.com/music/listen#/ps/Ipudd6ommmgdsboen7rjd2lvste

Bio  Lydia Parnes is a partner in the Washington, D.C., office of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, where she is chair of the firm's privacy and cybersecurity practice. She regularly represents companies in complex regulatory investigations and provides advice on complying with federal, state, and global privacy and data protection laws. The former director of the Bureau of Consumer Protection (BCP) at the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), Lydia is a highly regarded privacy expert. As director of the BCP, Lydia oversaw privacy and data security enforcement efforts and the development of the FTC's approach to online advertising. She testified on numerous occasions on the benefits of a uniform nationwide data breach law and the risks of legislating in the technology area. Lydia advises companies on how to navigate global privacy and data security requirements while pursuing their business goals. She helps them develop and implement comprehensive privacy compliance programs and understand the nuances of regulation and self-regulation in the privacy arena. Lydia regularly represents clients before the FTC and other federal and state agencies. Lydia was named a top lawyer in the cybersecurity category by Washingtonian Magazine in 2017 and 2015 and is regularly recognized in Chambers USA, Chambers Global, and The International Who's Who of Business Lawyers as among the country's top privacy and data security attorneys. In 2012, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati was recognized by Law360 as a "top privacy and consumer protection" law firm.   Lydia speaks throughout the country on developments in data security and privacy. Resources  Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati Eleventh Circuit LabMD Decision Significantly Restrains FTC’s Remedial Powers in Data Security and Privacy Actions by Lydia Parnes (WSGR Blog, June 18, 2018)   News Roundup California passes its own set of privacy rules The state of California has passed its own, sweeping data privacy law that’s set to go into effect in 2020. The hastily passed law signed by Governor Jerry Brown on Thursday grants Californians the right to know the what, why and how of how companies are collecting and sharing their data. The new law, while it also grants consumers the right to tell companies to delete their data, isn’t as extensive as the EU’s new Global Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which everyone’s still trying to figure out. DOJ approves Disney’s acquisition of 21st Century Fox  The Department of Justice has granted Disney antitrust approval to acquire 21st Century Fox’s entertainment assets for $71 billion. But Disney is going to need to divest Fox’s 22 regional sports networks within 90 days after it closes. Rival Comcast is still in the running, though. Its $65 billion bid is still on the table. Facebook says it released even more data  In a 700-page set of replies to the House Energy and Commerce Committee, Facebook acknowledged that it shared user data with 52 companies after it stopped doing so in 2015 with most others. The company says it has ended 38 of the 52 partnerships. Companies with which Facebook continues to share data are Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, Samsung and Alibaba. But lawmakers are obviously concerned given the ongoing fallout from the Cambridge Analytica debacle in which the company shared the data of some 87 million Facebook users which were used to help Republican candidates. Man charged with threatening Ajit Pai’s family        The FBI arrested a Norwalk, California man for allegedly threatening to kill Ajit Pai’s children because of the FCC’s repeal of the net neutrality rules. Thirty-three year old Markara Man, 33, allegedly sent three emails to Pai listing preschools around Arlington, Virginia, where Chairman Pai lives and threatening to kill his children back in December of 2017—months before the vote.  NSA deletes 685 million call records Remember when the National Security Agency came under fire a few years back when former contractor Ed Snowden revealed that the agency was collecting the phone records of millions of Americans? Well the NSA is deleting some 685 million of those call records for “technical irregularities”.   NSA Contractor Reality Winner takes pea bargain         Reality Winner, the former NSA contractor who leaked NSA documents last summer, has taken a plea bargain. The 26-year-old was charged with violating the Espionage Act for sharing NSA documents allegedly showing what NSA knew about how Russia penetrated the 2016 presidential election. She’ll serve 5 years and 3 months, with 3 years’ supervised release. Former Equifax manager charged with insider trading  The Securities and Exchange Commission charged Sudhakar Reddy Bonthy with insider trading. The agency alleges that Bonthu made $75,000 from illegal trades based on confidential information about Equifax’s data breach last year which exposed the data of more than 100 million people.  The New York Attorney General is probing the T-Mobile/Sprint Deal  The New York Attorney General’s office is investigating the effect the proposed T-Mobile-Sprint deal would have on pre-paid mobile services. Combined, the companies have 30 million paid subscribers, according to the Wall Street Journal. Prepaid plans are disproportionately the plan of choice for low-income households, a spokeswoman for New York Attorney General Barbara Underwood said. Tinder moves to encrypt photos Tinder’s parent company Match Group has moved to encrypt its users’ photos. The changes actually went into effect back in February after Senator Ron Wyden wrote a letter to Tinder asking the company to encrypt photos given the risk that hackers would have been able to capture photos and swipe data via the Tinder app. Netflix fires executive for racist comment Finally, Netflix has fired its Chief Communications officer for using the n-word during a meeting and then using it again. The company says that Jonathan Friedland used the word at least twice. In a letter, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings said the 7-year Netflix veteran used the word in a meeting about offensive speech in an inappropriate and offensive way. Friedland then used the word again with two black employees in the HR department who were tasked with dealing with the incident. Hastings wrote that he should have addressed the first incident head on, instead, he wrote “I realize that my privilege has made me intellectualize or otherwise minimize race issues like this. I need to set a better example by learning and listening more so I can be the leader we need.” According to Netflix’s 2Q18 workforce demographics report, Blacks comprise just 4% of Netflix’s workforce despite the fact that nonhispanic blacks comprise 12.1% of the U.S. population, according to the latest U.S. Census.

The 11th Circuit’s decision in LabMD v. FTC comes just as the new FTC Chairman and Commission have been sworn in. The long-awaited decision arises in a case which raised fundamental questions regarding the FTC’s data breach enforcement authority under Section 5 of the FTC Act and the level of injury that gives rise to a cognizable privacy harm. A fraught factual and procedural history – involving allegations of FTC misconduct and an ALJ decision in LabMD’s favor reversed by the full Commission – preceded the 11th Circuit’s action. Is this the end of the road or will the Court’s decision be subject to further appeal? What are the implications for the new Commission and its privacy enforcement authority?Featuring:Neil Chilson, Senior Research Fellow for Technology and Innovation, Charles Koch InstituteScott Delacourt, Partner, Wiley Rein LLP Teleforum calls are open to all dues paying members of the Federalist Society. To become a member, sign up here. As a member, you should receive email announcements of upcoming Teleforum calls which contain the conference call phone number. If you are not receiving those email announcements, please contact us at 202-822-8138.

The 11th Circuit’s decision in LabMD v. FTC comes just as the new FTC Chairman and Commission have been sworn in. The long-awaited decision arises in a case which raised fundamental questions regarding the FTC’s data breach enforcement authority under Section 5 of the FTC Act and the level of injury that gives rise to a cognizable privacy harm. A fraught factual and procedural history – involving allegations of FTC misconduct and an ALJ decision in LabMD’s favor reversed by the full Commission – preceded the 11th Circuit’s action. Is this the end of the road or will the Court’s decision be subject to further appeal? What are the implications for the new Commission and its privacy enforcement authority?Featuring:Neil Chilson, Senior Research Fellow for Technology and Innovation, Charles Koch InstituteScott Delacourt, Partner, Wiley Rein LLP Teleforum calls are open to all dues paying members of the Federalist Society. To become a member, sign up here. As a member, you should receive email announcements of upcoming Teleforum calls which contain the conference call phone number. If you are not receiving those email announcements, please contact us at 202-822-8138.

LabMD and the FTC’s cybersecurity crackdowns, LabMD and qualified immunity, and a virulently racist lawyer. Use iTunes? https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/short-circuit/id309062019 Use Android (RSS)? http://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:84493247/sounds.rss Newsletter: http://ij.org/about-us/shortcircuit/ Want to email us? shortcircuit@ij.org The best qualified immunity decision Clark Neily has ever read: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UJPgPwpcasU8QKJTEX35woe3rFVGqd1o/view LabMD cease and desist: http://media.ca11.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub/files/201616270.pdf LabMD retaliation: https://www.cadc.uscourts.gov/internet/opinions.nsf/844689C3A54628E78525829F004FD229/$file/17-5128-1733811.pdf Virulently racist lawyer: http://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2018/06/07/16-56188.pdf

In our 221st episode of The Cyberlaw Podcast, Stewart Baker, Nicholas Weaver (@ncweaver), David Kris (@DavidKris), and Nate Jones (@n8jones81) discuss: LabMD decision from the 11th Circuit overturns decades of FTC acquisition of legal authority through bureaucratic adverse possession; Commerce says it has a deal with ZTE. Is bipartisan opposition from Congress too late? This Week in Leaks: More ill-advised romance in the intelligence community; James Wolfe pays the price; Paul Manafort has similar problems with secure messaging; The Hansen bust: What does it say about Chinese espionage and the OPM hack? And the Mallory conviction for good measure; Speaking of China, they recently scored a cyberespionage coup.

Since the Federal Trade Commission began bringing data security enforcement actions in 2002, no court had ruled on the substantive merits of the FTC’s approach. A panel of three Eleventh Circuit judges decisively rejected the FTC’s use of broad, vague consent decrees, in the LabMD v Federal Trade Commission ruling that the Commission may only bar specific practices, and cannot require a company “to overhaul and replace its data-security program to meet an indeterminable standard of reasonableness.” We are joined by TechFreedom’s President Berin Szóka and Legal Fellow Graham Owens. They explain why this case is so crucial, what’s next for the FTC and what policy changes can be on the horizon.

On this episode, we welcome back two long-time friends of the show to talk privacy, security and HIPAA. David Harlow and Niam Yaraghi join me and Shahid for a wide-ranging discussion that includes: Niam's recent report: How HIPAA omnibus rules effectively reduced the number of data breaches among health care providers' business associates Europe's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and how it applies to the U.S. healthcare system. The difference between a systems approach and a data approach to security and privacy How privacy might be seen as a facet of patient safety and how that could change the approach Breaking down myths about the value of stolen health data (and some ways it can be valuable to organized crime) Dealing with privacy when the business model is to share (i.e. the Facebook scandal) How can we expect privacy when we are the product? What can we / should we expect from companies like Facebook when it comes to privacy? What is the privacy paradox? Will more regulations help or hurt privacy? What's the FTC's role in all of this? Plus the LabMD saga. What's a digital health startup to do? All 4 panelists give advice to startups on how to deal with security and privacy. Hint: bake it in from scratch. It's not as hard, or expensive as you think.   About David Harlow DAVID HARLOW is Principal of The Harlow Group LLC, a health care law and consulting firm based in the Hub of the Universe, Boston, MA. His thirty years' experience in the public and private sectors affords him a unique perspective on legal, policy and business issues facing the health care community. David is adept at assisting clients in developing new paradigms for their business organizations, relationships and processes so as to maximize the realization of organizational goals in a highly regulated environment, in realms ranging from health data privacy and security to digital health strategy to physician-hospital relationships to facilities development to the avoidance of fraud and abuse. He's been called "an expert on HIPAA and other health-related law issues [who] knows more than virtually anyone on those topics.” (Forbes.com.) His award-winning blog, HealthBlawg, is highly regarded in both the legal and health policy blogging worlds. David is a charter member of the external Advisory Board of the Mayo Clinic Social Media Network and has served as the Public Policy Chair of the Society for Participatory Medicine, on the Health Law Section Council of the Massachusetts Bar Association and on the Advisory Board of FierceHealthIT. He speaks regularly before health care and legal industry groups on business, policy and legal matters. You should follow him on Twitter. http://davidharlow.me http://healthblawg.com @healthblawg   About Niam Yaraghi Niam Yaraghi s an assistant professor of Operations and Information Management at the University of Connecticut's School of Business and a non-resident fellow in the Brookings Institution's Center for Technology Innovation. His research is focused on the economics of health information technologies. In particular, Niam studies the business models and policy structures that incentivize transparency, interoperability and sharing of health information among patients, providers, payers and regulators. He empirically examines the subsequent impact of such efforts on cost and quality of care. Niam's ongoing research topics include health information exchange platforms, patient privacy, and healthcare evaluation and rating systems. He has a B.Sc in Industrial Engineering from the Isfahan University of Technology in Iran, and a M.Sc from the Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden. He received his Ph.D. in Management Science & Systems from the State University of New York at Buffalo. Niamyaraghi.com @niamyaraghi Niam's call to action for the listener: The state of privacy in healthcare is bad, but not as bad as you think! Federal privacy protection rules have helped with protecting privacy of many patients, yet the costs of implementing and complying with such rules are still unclear. We should realize that given the digitization of our lives, the borders around our private information are slowly fading away, and our individual responsibility and awareness about what we share with whom is our best bet in protecting our privacy. ~Niam Yaraghi Related Why You Should Always Be Preparing to Sell Your Company (i.e. build a company that's worth owning) | Dexter Braff | The Braff Group - Dexter's take on how to build a valuable company is very relevant to today's discussion. As Niam said: look at security and privacy as a builder of trust. It's a business value, not a business expense. Sharing Consumer Health Information: Look Before You Leap - This is David's post on the FTC complaint investigation that effectively put LabMD out of business. It's an ongoing story with all kinds of lessons for digital health companies dealing with consumer data. Grindr breach reveals inadequacy of digital age privacy regulations - Niam breaks down the recent Grindr breach. This is an interesting use case too because it's a breach born in good intentions for the users. Good intentions do not shield you from privacy obligations and rules. A New Story for Healthcare Security and Compliance w/ Niam Yaraghi - and #HCBiz video interview Can CPC+ align Physicians, Payers and HealthIT? w/ David Harlow - and #HCBiz video interview Trumpcare: Innovation, Speculation and What's Next w/ Niam Yaraghi - and #HCBiz video interview   Subscribe to Weekly Updates If you like what we're doing here, then please consider signing up for our weekly newsletter. You'll get one email from me each week detailing: New podcast episodes and blog posts. Content or ideas that I've found valuable in the past week. Insider info about the show like stats, upcoming episodes and future plans that I won't put anywhere else. 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Michael J. Daugherty, Founder, and CEO of LabMD based in the United States participate in Risk Roundup to discuss – Cyber Crimes and Laws Challenges. Cyber Crimes and Laws Challenges Today, across nations, the most successful criminals are those that can hide behind the anonymity that the cyberspace offers, and individuals and entities across nations: […] The post Cyber Crimes and Laws Challenges appeared first on Risk Group.

Mike Daugherty is the CEO of LabMD, a medical testing lab. He has spent most of the last decade defending his company against charges that it had deficient cybersecurity practices. The early years of this battle are recorded in his book, "The Devil Inside the Beltway". In so doing, he has become the only litigant to challenge the basic authority that underlies more than 200 enforcement actions relating to cybersecurity and online privacy that the FTC has brought over the past 15 years. Every one of the 200+ litigants before him – including some of the largest companies in the world – have settled with the FTC, creating an unquestioned and untested belief that the FTC has broad authority to regulate in these areas.Following oral arguments last month before a panel of the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals, it seems entirely possible that he will prevail. In so doing, he may well topple key pillars of the FTC’s cybersecurity and online privacy edifice.Featuring:- Michael J. Daugherty, Founder, President and CEO, LabMD- Gus Hurwitz, Assistant Professor of Law, Nebraska College of LawVisit our website – https://RegProject.org – to learn more, view all of our content, and connect with us on social media.

In our 171th episode of the Steptoe Cyberlaw Podcast, Stewart Baker, Michael Vatis, Maury Shenk, Jon Sallet, and Jennifer Quinn-Barabanov discuss: new developments in breach law; Justice Kennedy’s gassy ode to the “Cyber Age"; DOJ’s merger authority growing firmer?; Germany authorizes law enforcement hacking; Germany also admits spying on the US; European Council prepares sanctions in response to cyberattacks; Russia beats Western companies into sharing cyber data; oral argument in LabMD goes badly for the FTC; solicitor General seeks review of Microsoft case; CIA contractors show cyberskills by hacking snacks. Our guest interview is with Ellen Nakashima, National Security Reporter at The Washington Post. The views expressed in this podcast are those of the speakers and do not reflect the opinions of the firm.

In our 159th episode of the Steptoe Cyberlaw Podcast, Stewart Baker, Jamil Jaffer, Jennifer Quinn-Barabanov, and Maury Shenk discuss: New measures are planned to allow cops and spooks in the European Union to crack open encrypted apps and services, according to the bloc's Justice Commissioner; Trump administration to talk encryption challenges with EU; EU will ask Privacy Shield participants for US surveillance data; Wendy’s facing two-front battle over data breaches; Facebook loses its effort to block bulk search warrants; LabMD 1st Amendment claims against FTC survive dismissal; Judge won't halt Massachusetts ban on secret recordings; Germany sees growing cyber threat but lacks legal means to retaliate; India’s government has been scanning the irises and fingerprints of its citizens into a massive database. Our guest interview is with Nicholas Weaver, Senior Researcher of Networking and Security at the International Computer Science Institute in Berkeley and a lecturer in cyber security at UC Berkeley. The views expressed in this podcast are those of the speakers and do not reflect the opinions of the firm.

Dedication: Lieutenant Bill Fearon, New Jersey State Police.  End of Watch: December 28, 2016 JT Olson, author of The Orphan, The Widow & Me: Paying It Forward With Both Hands.  After being orphaned as a child alongside his four siblings, he went on to start a faith-based non-profit serving orphans and widows. Olson's childhood tragedy gave him an overwhelming understanding of the need to find loving homes for the world's orphaned and vulnerable children. BothHands.org follows his powerful journey towards spiritual restoration by recounting significant moments in his life, including his family's life-altering decision to adopt a little girl from China. Read his transformation of pain into passion, the joy found through adoption and the value of every life. Michael Daugherty author of The Devil In The Beltway, is President & CEO of LabMD, a clinical and anatomic medical laboratory with a national client base. LabMD specializes in analysis and diagnosis of blood, urine, and tissue specimens for cancers, micro-organisms and tumor markers. Mike founded LabMD in 1996 after 14 years with U.S. Surgical Corp. and Mentor Corporation.  Michael enjoys playing tennis, traveling, and flying his Cirrus SR22 Turbo single engine aircraft. Southern Sense is conservative talk with Annie "The Radio Chick" Ubelis and "CS" Bennett.  Informative, fun, irreverent and politically incorrect, you never know where we'll go, but you'll love the journey! Southern-Sense.com

Dedication: Lieutenant Bill Fearon, New Jersey State Police.  End of Watch: December 28, 2016JT Olson, author of The Orphan, The Widow & Me: Paying It Forward With Both Hands.  After being orphaned as a child alongside his four siblings, he went on to start a faith-based non-profit serving orphans and widows. Olson's childhood tragedy gave him an overwhelming understanding of the need to find loving homes for the world's orphaned and vulnerable children. BothHands.org follows his powerful journey towards spiritual restoration by recounting significant moments in his life, including his family's life-altering decision to adopt a little girl from China. Read his transformation of pain into passion, the joy found through adoption and the value of every life.Michael Daugherty author of The Devil In The Beltway, is President & CEO of LabMD, a clinical and anatomic medical laboratory with a national client base. LabMD specializes in analysis and diagnosis of blood, urine, and tissue specimens for cancers, micro-organisms and tumor markers. Mike founded LabMD in 1996 after 14 years with U.S. Surgical Corp. and Mentor Corporation.  Michael enjoys playing tennis, traveling, and flying his Cirrus SR22 Turbo single engine aircraft.Southern Sense is conservative talk with Annie "The Radio Chick" Ubelis and "CS" Bennett.  Informative, fun, irreverent and politically incorrect, you never know where we'll go, but you'll love the journey! Southern-Sense.com

Dedication: Lieutenant Bill Fearon, New Jersey State Police. End of Watch: December 28, 2016JT Olson, author of The Orphan, The Widow & Me: Paying It Forward With Both Hands. After being orphaned as a child alongside his four siblings, he went on to start a faith-based non-profit serving orphans and widows. Olson's childhood tragedy gave him an overwhelming understanding of the need to find loving homes for the world's orphaned and vulnerable children. BothHands.org follows his powerful journey towards spiritual restoration by recounting significant moments in his life, including his family's life-altering decision to adopt a little girl from China. Read his transformation of pain into passion, the joy found through adoption and the value of every life.Michael Daugherty author of The Devil In The Beltway, is President & CEO of LabMD, a clinical and anatomic medical laboratory with a national client base. LabMD specializes in analysis and diagnosis of blood, urine, and tissue specimens for cancers, micro-organisms and tumor markers. Mike founded LabMD in 1996 after 14 years with U.S. Surgical Corp. and Mentor Corporation. Michael enjoys playing tennis, traveling, and flying his Cirrus SR22 Turbo single engine aircraft.Southern Sense is conservative talk with Annie "The Radio Chick" Ubelis and "CS" Bennett. Informative, fun, irreverent and politically incorrect, you never know where we'll go, but you'll love the journey! Southern-Sense.com

Dedication: Lieutenant Bill Fearon, New Jersey State Police. End of Watch: December 28, 2016JT Olson, author of The Orphan, The Widow & Me: Paying It Forward With Both Hands. After being orphaned as a child alongside his four siblings, he went on to start a faith-based non-profit serving orphans and widows. Olson's childhood tragedy gave him an overwhelming understanding of the need to find loving homes for the world's orphaned and vulnerable children. BothHands.org follows his powerful journey towards spiritual restoration by recounting significant moments in his life, including his family's life-altering decision to adopt a little girl from China. Read his transformation of pain into passion, the joy found through adoption and the value of every life.Michael Daugherty author of The Devil In The Beltway, is President & CEO of LabMD, a clinical and anatomic medical laboratory with a national client base. LabMD specializes in analysis and diagnosis of blood, urine, and tissue specimens for cancers, micro-organisms and tumor markers. Mike founded LabMD in 1996 after 14 years with U.S. Surgical Corp. and Mentor Corporation. Michael enjoys playing tennis, traveling, and flying his Cirrus SR22 Turbo single engine aircraft.Southern Sense is conservative talk with Annie "The Radio Chick" Ubelis and "CS" Bennett. Informative, fun, irreverent and politically incorrect, you never know where we'll go, but you'll love the journey! Southern-Sense.com

In our 145th episode of the Steptoe Cyberlaw Podcast, Stewart Baker, Michael Vatis, and Alan Cohn discuss: Russia hacking: The intel report and Trump’s surprisingly nuanced reaction; Report; What was Russia’s motivation? Occupy Wall Street and 201; Coverage of report Intercepts of Russian comms supports conclusion; UK role; Is Trump right to think that the Obama Administration is tilting intel to make him look bad?; When will Trump’s Twitter account be hacked?; China forces Apple to drop the NYT app from its China app store; Russia forces Apple and Google to drop the LinkedIn app from their Russian app stores; LabMD gets lots of amicus support; Rediscovering US libel law as a way to shut critics up; Europocrisy Prize starts to get traction? Our interview is with Davis Hake, former director of cybersecurity strategy at Palo Alto Networks, and Nico Sell, co-founder and CEO of Wickr. The views expressed in this podcast are those of the speakers and do not reflect the opinions of the firm.

In our 138th episode of the Steptoe Cyberlaw Podcast, Stewart Baker, Katie Cassel, and Maury Shenk discuss: 11th Circuit decides the case against the Commission in granting a stay that the Commission should have granted; LabMD says it will soon be a miniseries; DMCA exemption for security research takes effect; Yahoo admits knowing of 2014 breach in 2014, says it is unsure the Verizon deal will go through; Russia prepares to block LinkedIn for localization violations; Section 230 immunity gets weirder; German prosecutors investigate Facebook over hate posting; Big DDOS attack on Russian banks; Russian hackers target think tanks in post-election attacks; Amazon to repay parents for kids’ in-app purchases. Our interview is with former Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy at Department of Homeland Security and noted cybercommentator, Paul Rosenzweig, and Daily Beast reporter, Shane Harris. The views expressed in this podcast are those of the speakers and do not reflect the opinions of the firm.

In today's podcast, we follow up on last week's DDoS against Russian banks. Fancy Bear's been poking at think tanks, and ESET has a rundown of Fancy's fancies over the last couple of years. DDoS can be low and slow as well as high and noisy. Banks consider cyber lessons learned from Tesco heists. International recruiter Michael Page blames a third-party for data loss. Canada's Casino Rama—that's the casino's name—sustains a breach. A family of sites none of you would visit is also breached—we tell you because you're probably asking on behalf of 339 million friends. LabMD wins a stay against the FTC. Level 3's Dale Drew considers the changing nature of the IoT. And Kaspersky takes Microsoft to court in Moscow on an anti-trust beef.

In our 130th episode of the Steptoe Cyberlaw Podcast, Stewart Baker, Katie Cassel, Maury Shenk, and Michael Vatis discuss: NY Department of Financial Services issues cybersecurity regulations for banks and insurers EU finds its comparative advantage in writing regulations, not code Sixth circuit finds breach standing without allegations of injury CFTC Approves Final Rules On Cybersecurity Testing Ninth circuit allows “failure to warn” claim despite CDA 230 FTC wants to make the rubble bounce at LabMD. The views expressed in this podcast are those of the speakers and do not reflect the opinions of the firm.

In our 128th episode of the Steptoe Cyberlaw Podcast, Stewart Baker and Maury Shenk discuss: SWIFT Fraud Privacy Shield is up, and a lot of companies are signing up Equation Group tools outed – was NSA hacked by Shadow Brokers? Crypto World War Russia is hacking US politics CareFirst is kicking butt in injury-free breach lawsuits [Stewart] ECJ limits data protection jurisdiction LabMD loses before FTC and now can go to a neutral forum FTC loses turf in Ninth Circuit FTC finally notices that NIST has a Cybersecurity Framework UK watchdog endorses bulk collection of data Baltimore uses aerial surveillance tool from Iraq war Yahoo! skates with meaningless settlement of wiretap class action Our interview is with Scott DePasquale, CEO of Utilidata, to talk about cybersecurity and his contribution to the Internet Security Alliance’s upcoming book, The Cyber Security Social Contract. The views expressed in this podcast are those of the speakers and do not reflect the opinions of the firm.

In our 125th episode of the Steptoe Cyberlaw Podcast, Stewart Baker, Michael Vatis, and David Kris discuss: Second Circuit rules against US Government in Microsoft case; DOJ rolls out MLAT reform proposal; LabMD draws law firms, Coke into Tiversa data theft row; DEA needed warrant to track suspect’s phone, judge says; Most ransomware attacks are HIPAA breaches, Feds say; Stealthy cyberespionage malware targets energy companies; Chinese hackers blamed for multiple breaches at US banking agency; Chinese browsers: the perfect reconnaissance tool; and Slow start for cyberwar on ISIS. Our interview is with Jeremy Rabkin and Ariel Rabkin, author of Hacking Back without Cracking Up, published by the Hoover Institution. The views expressed in this podcast are those of the speakers and do not reflect the opinions of the firm.

We open up our 2016 year interviewing Shawn Tuma on the show. Shawn is our legal eagle, and a regular contributor to the podcast. This episode ran a little bit long (OK a lot long) but I think you'll enjoy the show...    In this episode... Most important cybersecurity-related legal developments of 2015 Tectonic Shift that occurred with “standing” in consumer data breach claims Discussion of law prior to Neiman Marcus case, and post Neiman Marcus Does this now apply to all consumer data breach cases? Immediate impact? Companies now liable? Lesson is in seeing the trend and how incrementalism works Regulatory Trends FTC & SEC gave hints in 2014, post-emergence of Target details Wyndham challenged authority – came to fruition in August 2015 SEC not far behind – significant case in September 2015 Aggressiveness of FTC is substantial – FTC v. LabMD … all over LimeWire Officer & Director Liability 2014 – SEC Comm. fired the warning shot … pointed the finger Shareholder derivative litigation Individual liability of IT / Compliance / Privacy “officers” Major 2016 Legal Trends Regulatory enforcement … which, by the way, is why NIST is becoming default Shareholder Derivative – much more likely than consumer class actions at this time Lessons from both of these: when you need to persuade the “money folks” that they need to act, mention D&O Liability (especially Caremark) and Regulatory focus on individuals … now they're in the cross-hairs Realization that cybersecurity is more of a legal issue than anything else (IT or business) b/c it is the legal requirements and consequences that ultimately drive everything

In a bonus ninety-fourth episode of the Steptoe Cyberlaw Podcast, Stewart Baker interviews Mike Daugherty, CEO of LabMD, at the Black Hat Executive Summit. Mike discusses his six-year battle with the Federal Trade Commission over a file-sharing program installed on the corporate network of LabMD. The views expressed in this podcast are those of the speakers and do not reflect the opinions of the firm.

In our ninety-first episode of the Steptoe Cyberlaw Podcast, Stewart Baker, Michael Vatis, Jason Weinstein, and Alan Cohn discuss: court upholds warrantless surveillance program as NSA metadata program shuts down; FTC and LabMD data-privacy case: FTC launces an appeal and LabMD sues FTC lawyers; Google has mostly won their cookie case, but not quite; NRC’s new cyberattack reporting requirements; Iranian hackers attack State Department via social media accounts; and Comcast injects copyright warnings into users’ screens. In our second half we have an interview with Jason Healey of the Atlantic Council and Columbia University. The views expressed in this podcast are those of the speakers and do not reflect the opinions of the firm.

"The Federal Trade Commission’s data-security enforcement efforts have received a setback—at the hands of the commission’s own in-house judge.  Administrative Law Judge D. Michael Chappell late Friday dismissed a long-running and sometimes bitter case involving LabMD, a former medical testing  company the FTC accused of failing to provide reasonable or appropriate cybersecurity protections for patient data.  The FTC’s civil case against LabMD had focused largely on the potential exposure of a 1,718-page company report that contained names, dates of birth, social security numbers and other information about 9,300 patients.  Online security firm Tiversa found the document on a peer-to-peer file-sharing network in 2008. After discovering the file, Tiversa contacted LabMD and sought to sell the company data security services, which the firm declined, according to the judge’s ruling.  Tiversa later reported to the FTC that LabMD had exposed sensitive patient information, the ruling said. LabMD, a Georgia-based firm, went out of business in early 2014.  The company’s owner and chief executive, Michael Daugherty, has been an unusually aggressive FTC critic, writing a book about his experiences during the commission’s investigation, entitled “The Devil Inside the Beltway.” Mr. Daugherty said the FTC probe and lawsuit were costly, burdensome and unfair, contributing to the company’s demise.  “Yeah we won, but what did we win?  We’re dead,” he said.  The FTC, he said, “has way too much lopsided power.”

In our ninetieth episode of the Steptoe Cyberlaw Podcast, Stewart Baker and Michael Vatis discuss: The FTC’s astonishing loss to LabMD; The European Union “cracking down” on bitcoin; The G20 embracing limits on commercial cyberespionage; Latest in litigation over the nearly expired NSA 215 program; 24 hour tech support available for ISIS; Snowden and ISIS: Glenn Greenwald insists that Snowden taught ISIS nothing about security; Tech manual used by ISIS invokes Snowden’s advice about remote storage systems. In our second half we have an interview with Charlie Savage, New York Times reporter, where we talk about Power Wars, his monumental new book on the law and politics of terrorism in the Obama (and Bush) administrations.

Host Brian Wesolowski sits down with Michael Daugherty to discuss in-depth his recent court win against the Federal Trade Commission, how the long-term experience turned into his recent book "The Devil Inside The Beltway," and more. The issue at hand raises questions about the agency's ability to protect consumers against risky business practices that have not yet led to actual harm. Attribution: sounds used from Psykophobia, Taira Komori, BenKoning, Zabuhailo, bloomypetal, guitarguy1985, bmusic92, and offthesky of freesound.org.

Please join your host Susan Knowles as I welcome Michael J. Daugherty to Stand For Truth Radio. Michael J. Daugherty is Founder, President & CEO of LabMD, a cancer detection laboratory based in Atlanta, Georgia, as well as the author of the book The Devil Inside the Beltway, The Shocking Expose of the US Government's Surveillance and Overreach into Cybersecurity, Medicine and Small Business. You are not going to believe what this man has been through. It will be an eye opener that will leave you reeling with disbelief.While the FTC, FCC and Homeland Security joust over who is going to regulate the Internet, Michael J. Daugherty is here to rivet you about his blood in the water battle with the Federal Trade Commission over their relentless investigation into LabMD's data security practices. You will see what they do to those who refuse to "go along to get along". They say it's about privacy, but it's about power. Their power. DC Beltway Bureaucratic Power. This is an insider's look at how agencies exploit America by bullying the small and weak to control the. Big and Powerful right on down the line. It's their playbook. Because of his work, Mike has testified before the House of Representatives House Oversight Committee and regularly keynotes in front of healthcare, law, business and technology audience educating them on what to expect when the Federal Government investigates you.   

"A cybersecurity company faked hacks and extorted clients to buy its services, according to an ex-employee. In a federal court this week, Richard Wallace, a former investigator at cybersecurity company Tiversa, said the company routinely engaged in fraud -- and mafia-style shakedowns.  To scare potential clients, Tiversa would typically make up fake data breaches, Wallace said. Then it pressured firms to pay up. "Hire us or face the music," Wallace said on Tuesday at a federal courtroom in Washington, D.C.. CNNMoney obtained a transcript of the hearing. The results were disastrous for at least one company that stood up to Tiversa and refused to pay. In 2010, Tiversa scammed LabMD, a cancer testing center in Atlanta, Wallace testified. Wallace said he tapped into LabMD's computers and pulled the medical records. The cybersecurity firm then alerted LabMD it had been hacked. Tiversa offered it emergency "incident response" cybersecurity services. After the lab refused the offer, Tiversa threatened to tip off federal regulators about the "data breach." When LabMD still refused, Tiversa let the Federal Trade Commission know about the "hack." The FTC went after the lab, giving the company a choice: sign a consent decree (basically a plea deal which means years of audits and a nasty public statement) or fight in court. The CEO of LabMD, Michael Daugherty, chose to fight, because a plea deal would have tarnished his reputation and killed the business anyway, he said. Daugherty lost that battle in 2014, having run out of steam. The lawsuit killed LabMD, which was forced to fire its 40 employees last year. "We were a small company," he said. "It's not like we had millions of dollars to fight this and tons of employees." "The fight with the government was psychological warfare," he told CNNMoney. "There was reputation assassination. There was intimidation. We thought we were extorted. My staff and management team was demoralized. My VP left. My lawyer left." Daugherty launched a website and wrote a book about the ordeal. Cause of Action, a government watchdog group, picked up his case." Michael Daugherty, is a Senior Writer for Cyber Defense Magazine and is a Board Member at Snoopwall the powerhouse cyber-security firm and is author of The Devil Inside the Beltway: The Shocking Expose of the US Government's Surveillance and Overreach Into Cyber-security, Medicine and Small Business. Michael Daugherty, is a Senior Writer for Cyber Defense Magazine and is a Board Member at Snoopwall the powerhouse cyber-security firm and is author of The Devil Inside the Beltway: The Shocking Expose of the US Government's Surveillance and Overreach Into Cyber-security, Medicine and Small Business.  

In this episode Traveler's Insurance files suit against a web developmeent company for failing to provide adequate security, resulting in a breach of one of its customers http://www.law360.com/articles/614158/travelers-blames-web-designer-in-bank-website-data-breach We discuss whether security standards are now "implied"? Does Traveler's have any standing to sue? (Shawn thinks not) FTC goes after LabMD for a data breach http://healthitsecurity.com/2015/01/23/ftc-healthcare-data-breach-case-v-labmd-continues/ Is the FTC over-reaching? We discuss this statement from the FTC website: "[LabMD failed to] ..reasonably protect the security of consumers’ personal data, including medical information" Social media company TopFace pays a ransom to hackers http://www.forbes.com/sites/davelewis/2015/01/31/topface-facepalms-as-it-surrenders-to-data-breach-hacker-blackmail/ Face + Palm. We lament why this absolutely terrible decision may have far-reaching repercussions Guest Shawn Tuma ( @ShawnETuma ) - In addition to being a perennial favorite on this show, Shawn is an attorney with expertise in computer fraud, social media law, data security, intellectual property, privacy, and litigation. He's a Texan, a Christian, a family man, an author & and speaker - and an all-around awesome guy.

In our fifty-first episode of the Steptoe Cyberlaw Podcast, Stewart Baker, Michael Vatis, Jason Weinstein, and Ed Krauland discuss: more details emerging on the secret DEA phone log database; in the wake of the attacks the EU wants to force internet and phone companies to turn over encryption keys and asks tech firms to remove more EU content; cellphone companies avoid some wiretap claims in multidistrict litigation case involving Carrier IQ; another setback for LabMD in its challenge to the FTC; the US eases restrictions on telecom, Internet, and related financial services for Cuba; and shocking poll shows that the NSA is holding its own in public confidence. In our second half we have an interview with Thomas Rid, Professor of Security Studies at King’s College London and author of ‘Cyber War Will Not Take Place,’ and Jeffrey Carr, CEO of Taia Global. They debate cyberattack attribution. The views expressed in this podcast are those of the speakers and do not reflect the opinions of the firm.

** There is a special gift for our listeners in this episode, from our friends at InfoSec World 2015! Listen to find out how you can go for free.  We have a promo code! CLD15/RABBIT – 15% off for “Down the Rabbit Hole” listeners Topics Covered Google picks up really big rocks, but lives in a glass house. As Google drops zero-day on Apple and Microsoft they respond with a lame excuse as to why they aren't patching a vulnerability that puts north of 60% of all Android users at risk. http://m.v3.co.uk/v3-uk/news/2389839/google-puts-60-percent-of-android-users-at-risk-with-webview-security-changes http://www.extremetech.com/mobile/197346-google-throws-nearly-a-billion-android-users-under-the-bus-refuses-to-patch-os-vulnerability http://www.eweek.com/security/google-project-zero-continues-its-microsoft-zero-day-assault.html http://www.zdnet.com/article/googles-project-zero-reveals-three-apple-os-x-zero-day-vulnerabilities/ Marriott reverses its decision to block guests' personal WiFi devices at their properties http://threatpost.com/marriott-agrees-to-stop-blocking-guest-wifi-devices/110441 LabMD's request to have an enforcement action against them by the Federal Trade Commission is denied. While this doesn't necessarily mean anything serious, yet, it's definitely one to watch. http://healthitsecurity.com/2015/01/23/ftc-healthcare-data-breach-case-v-labmd-continues/ Heartland Payment Systems - yes the company that was the posted child for nearly going out of business because of a horrible breach - is continuing to reinvent itself around security, this time making headlines with an offer of a data breach warranty. Strings, as you may suspect, attached. http://www.cspnet.com/industry-news-analysis/technology/articles/heartland-offering-data-breach-warranty http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20150112005260/en/Heartland-Offer-Comprehensive-Merchant-Breach-Warranty Watch this podcast page later this week for that freebie Michael told you about!

LabMD processes medical specimens. One day, a security services company emailed them advising that its patented searching software, which looks for problems caused by peer-to-peer applications, found a file with sensitive information. The security company offered its services at $475 an hour in what was interpreted as a shakedown. LabMD refused to play and refused to pay, choosing to mitigate the problem themselves.  The security company turned over its finding to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) leading to a multi-year, resource-draining battle by LabMD to try prove that they did nothing wrong.  Security Current's Vic Wheatman spoke with LabMD's CEO Mike Daugherty, author of The Devil Inside the Beltway: The Shocking Expose of the US Government's Surveillance and Overreach into Cybersecurity, Medicine and Small Business. Daugherty talks about taking on a government bureaucracy over matters of principle.  Also, read Security Current's Richard Stiennon's review of Daugherty's book.  

Michael J. Daugherty, Author of “The Devil Inside The Beltway” and CEO of LabMD, exposes the U.S. Government with Heather Wagenhals on the Unlock Your Wealth Radio Show this Friday morning at 9:00am (PST). Listen to Daugherty talk about his book, The Devil Inside The Beltway, which reveals detailed information about the U.S. Government, exposing their surveillance program that lead to the invasion of privacy on millions of online users. This week's trivia is based on last week's Key, Acceptance and Affirmation plus Minutes on your Money and more during Declare Your Financial Independence 2013. This Week's Key in the Keys to Riches Financial Wellness Series: Take Action and Make Assessment Tune in to learn how to manage money easier, in less time reducing money stress and choosing to create wealth and happiness with Heather's proven strategies right here athttp://UnlockYourWealthRadio.com

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