https://www.paulrubell.com Corporate, business and privacy law blog. https://irp-cdn.multiscreensite.com/md/unsplash/dms3rep/multi/photo-1531053270060-6643c8e70e8f.jpg https://www.paulrubell.com https://www.paulrubell.com/cyberliability-and-privacy-issues-in-the-food-and-beverage-industry Cyberliability and privacy are very important to the food, beverage and hospitality industries. Today the industry faces many 21st century risks. Paul Rubell addresses these risks. Fri, 02 Nov 2018 15:03:45 GMT https://www.paulrubell.com/cyberliability-and-privacy-issues-in-the-food-and-beverage-industry cyber-liability,cybersecurity,blockchain,long,island,food,council,beverage,industry,mazars https://www.paulrubell.com/2018/07/16/europe-can-regulate-your-company-facebook-page by Paul Rubell, Esq. Every company in the world that has a Facebook social media page may be subject to the European Union’s newly-enacted GDRP (General Data Protection Regulation) and the chokehold of EU law enforcement. Many businesses wrongly believe they are not collecting personal data via their Facebook pages but that is likely not […] Mon, 16 Jul 2018 21:16:00 GMT https://www.paulrubell.com/2018/07/16/europe-can-regulate-your-company-facebook-page thumbnail https://www.paulrubell.com/2017/08/29/usa-indicts-the-chinese-hacker-who-breached-anthems-website   by Paul Rubell, Esq. A 36-year old Chinese national from Shanghai has been indicted by a federal court in California for transmitting malicious software tools to companies located in the United States. Yu Pingan was arrested on August 27, 2017 when he arrived in the United States to attend a conference.  Pingan used the online pseudonym […] Wed, 30 Aug 2017 00:14:00 GMT https://www.paulrubell.com/2017/08/29/usa-indicts-the-chinese-hacker-who-breached-anthems-website thumbnail https://www.paulrubell.com/2017/04/29/are-violent-selfies-protected-by-the-constitution Taking videos is a form of expression that is guaranteed by the Bill of Rights. However, even free speech has constitutional limits. For instance, if you shout "fire" in a crowded theater, you can be arrested and the 1st Amendment will not protect you. Sat, 29 Apr 2017 22:45:00 GMT https://www.paulrubell.com/2017/04/29/are-violent-selfies-protected-by-the-constitution thumbnail https://www.paulrubell.com/2017/04/16/not-best-practices-apples-icloud-is-neither-private-nor-secure by Paul Rubell, Esq. Can your business survive a massive data breach? If your business stores, backs up or syncs its data to the cyber cloud, take note. Apple’s iCloud is currently the subject of ransomware. As you will read, the moral to this article is that confidential business data, trade secrets, customer lists and […] Mon, 17 Apr 2017 03:04:00 GMT https://www.paulrubell.com/2017/04/16/not-best-practices-apples-icloud-is-neither-private-nor-secure thumbnail https://www.paulrubell.com/2017/04/16/best-practice-to-keep-your-trade-secrets-private-avoid-password-managers by Paul Rubell, Esq. Information is the currency of 2017. For this reason it is mission-critical to keep data currency safe, secure and private. Just as gold bricks should be stored in a physical safe, data needs to be kept secret electronically. Passwords are the key to enter the digital vault. Strong passwords are designed […] Mon, 17 Apr 2017 02:57:00 GMT https://www.paulrubell.com/2017/04/16/best-practice-to-keep-your-trade-secrets-private-avoid-password-managers thumbnail https://www.paulrubell.com/2017/03/16/twitter-says-hello-to-hacking-users-say-goodbye-to-privacy Enjoy my newest article. You can read more on my blog at paulrubellblog.wordpress.com. Thu, 16 Mar 2017 11:39:00 GMT https://www.paulrubell.com/2017/03/16/twitter-says-hello-to-hacking-users-say-goodbye-to-privacy thumbnail https://www.paulrubell.com/2017/03/13/awaiting-the-presidents-cybersecurity-executive-order by Paul Rubell, Esq. Witness today’s risks of cyber crime.  Hackers, bad actors and foreign governments have long had the ability to assault our Nation. Current events have opened citizens’ eyes to the reality of the cyber threat. It is remarkable how the public has either forgotten or turned a blind eye to well-known security […] Mon, 13 Mar 2017 21:42:00 GMT https://www.paulrubell.com/2017/03/13/awaiting-the-presidents-cybersecurity-executive-order thumbnail https://www.paulrubell.com/2017/03/03/net-neutrality-is-no-more By Paul Rubell, Esq. Internet users have been suddenly stripped of an important source of privacy protection.  On March 1, 2017, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and Federal Communications Commission (FCC) abruptly suspended the net neutrality rules that had been scheduled to go into effect on March 2nd.  Internet users in the United States have […] Fri, 03 Mar 2017 17:53:00 GMT https://www.paulrubell.com/2017/03/03/net-neutrality-is-no-more thumbnail https://www.paulrubell.com/2017/02/16/cross-browser-tracking-its-time-to-update-your-privacy-policy by Paul Rubell, Esq. It is remarkable that many companies do not know the vastness of private information they obtain from their social media and website.  It is essential for every business to understand its legal responsibility to protect their customers’ personal information. OLD NEWS:  Web browsers can follow your voyage through the Internet. Firefox, Internet […] Thu, 16 Feb 2017 23:39:00 GMT https://www.paulrubell.com/2017/02/16/cross-browser-tracking-its-time-to-update-your-privacy-policy thumbnail https://www.paulrubell.com/2017/01/24/the-internet-of-things-is-not-especially-secure by Paul Rubell, Esq. Cameras and other surveillance devices are supposed to protect your home. It’s kind of bittersweet, then, that these devices are not especially secure themselves. Hackers can turn home protective devices such as cameras against their owners.  IoT cameras can unlock the door to your home instead of safeguarding it. Samsung’s SmartCam […] Tue, 24 Jan 2017 17:42:00 GMT https://www.paulrubell.com/2017/01/24/the-internet-of-things-is-not-especially-secure thumbnail https://www.paulrubell.com/2017/01/13/is-the-internet-of-things-secure-united-states-say-no-sues-d-link by Paul Rubell, Esq. Baby monitors, wi-fi routers and security cameras have one thing in common. These devices connect our homes to the Internet. We lock the doors to our houses. We close curtains in our living rooms and bedrooms to avert the gaze of peeping-Toms and criminals. Manufacturers of connected devices including D-Link advertise their […] Sat, 14 Jan 2017 00:46:00 GMT https://www.paulrubell.com/2017/01/13/is-the-internet-of-things-secure-united-states-say-no-sues-d-link thumbnail https://www.paulrubell.com/2016/12/22/news-flash-facebook-hosts-fake-news-the-presidential-election-is-hacked by Paul Rubell, Esq. The “real” media has been broadcasting the woes of so-called “fake” news. What is fake news? Can any news story really be accurate yet unbiased? Is it possible for a reporter to write or read stories like Walter Cronkite once did, without giving them a spin or bias? Fake news is […] Thu, 22 Dec 2016 11:15:00 GMT https://www.paulrubell.com/2016/12/22/news-flash-facebook-hosts-fake-news-the-presidential-election-is-hacked thumbnail https://www.paulrubell.com/2016/12/13/pebble-watch-closes-its-doors-for-the-last-time What a disappointment for the pioneer in wearable technology. My Pebble Time Steel is on my wrist every day. Why did Pebble fail? Tue, 13 Dec 2016 16:06:00 GMT https://www.paulrubell.com/2016/12/13/pebble-watch-closes-its-doors-for-the-last-time thumbnail https://www.paulrubell.com/2016/06/24/apple-opens-ios-10-code-why One of the guiding principles at Apple Inc. is to keep its software proprietary, closed and secret. Apple’s code is the antithesis to open source software. Steve Jobs zealously and jealously guarded Apple’s operating systems especially to prevent hackers, jailbreakers and the US and foreign governments from understanding exactly how Apple products function and operate. […] Fri, 24 Jun 2016 23:27:00 GMT https://www.paulrubell.com/2016/06/24/apple-opens-ios-10-code-why thumbnail https://www.paulrubell.com/2016/06/14/yahoo-patents-are-for-sale Yahoo owns thousands of patents that are at the crossroads of the Internet. For decades Yahoo has dominated web marketing, search engine, social media, mobile and cloud technology. Yahoo was born at the inception of the 1990s dot-com book. Jerry Yang and David Filo founded Yahoo in 1994 while they were electrical engineering students at […] Tue, 14 Jun 2016 22:22:00 GMT https://www.paulrubell.com/2016/06/14/yahoo-patents-are-for-sale thumbnail https://www.paulrubell.com/2016/06/02/tech-and-social-media-companies-fight-hate-speech-in-europe by Paul Rubell, Esq. Social media encourages people to talk and interact. For bad people, social media can be a safe haven to use hate speech and to spread hate speech virally. In order to combat this, Microsoft, YouTube, Facebook and Twitter agreed on May 31, 2016 to uphold a Code of Conduct relating to […] Fri, 03 Jun 2016 00:29:00 GMT https://www.paulrubell.com/2016/06/02/tech-and-social-media-companies-fight-hate-speech-in-europe thumbnail https://www.paulrubell.com/2016/05/23/is-facebook-monitoring-your-messenger-texts by Paul Rubell, Esq. Facebook Messenger is neither secure nor encrypted. Despite Facebook’s marketing of Messenger as a private way to communicate safely, it is not private at all. First, the encryption claim. Messenger is not as secure as WhatsApp and Apple’s iMessage. Facebook’s text product disguises the data in transit while your text message […] Tue, 24 May 2016 00:14:00 GMT https://www.paulrubell.com/2016/05/23/is-facebook-monitoring-your-messenger-texts thumbnail https://www.paulrubell.com/2016/05/13/going-dark-united-states-vs-apple by Paul Rubell, Esq. Encryption has become mainstream. Formerly, encryption was an arcane technology that only geeks with private keys (whatever they are) could manage. Thank you to Apple and (I never thought I’d say) Google for bringing the world encryption by default, the next wave of built-in privacy protections. These companies and others, including […] Fri, 13 May 2016 17:34:00 GMT https://www.paulrubell.com/2016/05/13/going-dark-united-states-vs-apple thumbnail https://www.paulrubell.com/2016/04/27/who-owns-your-3d-printed-creations by Paul Rubell, Esq. I enjoy 3d printing. Creating artwork, designing functional products, writing code to instruct a printer how, when and where to extrude its molten lava. 3d printing has become a great consumer hobby as well as a sophisticated additive manufacturing technique with innumerable industrial and medical applications today and into the future. […] Thu, 28 Apr 2016 00:25:00 GMT https://www.paulrubell.com/2016/04/27/who-owns-your-3d-printed-creations thumbnail https://www.paulrubell.com/2016/04/20/why-did-facebook-block-you by Paul Rubell Today, more and more Facebook users are temporarily blocked from accessing their accounts. This is mystifying to so many people who know that they have not engaged in improper online conduct. How can this be? What is going on? Why am I being blocked? Keep in mind: Facebook is a corporation that […] Wed, 20 Apr 2016 19:37:00 GMT https://www.paulrubell.com/2016/04/20/why-did-facebook-block-you thumbnail https://www.paulrubell.com/2015/04/13/space-suits by Paul Rubell I attended NASA/Microsoft’s SpaceAppNYC yesterday. An eye-opening event. A NASA representative urged industry to develop new spacesuit designs. To paraphrase her: “We cannot only send military pilots into space. I need all of you to come with me to Mars. All kinds of people, all shapes and sizes.” Come along to Mars? […] Mon, 13 Apr 2015 14:05:00 GMT https://www.paulrubell.com/2015/04/13/space-suits thumbnail https://www.paulrubell.com/2014/10/07/industry-pledges-to-protect-student-privacy-is-it-real-or-a-sham by Paul Rubell, Esq. Here’s a novel story. Industry promises to protect privacy but doesn’t change a thing. For the sake of background, Federal education laws purport to protect the privacy of school-aged children. Yet any high school student can tell you about the barrage of US mail and email marketing that she receives daily […] Tue, 07 Oct 2014 12:39:00 GMT https://www.paulrubell.com/2014/10/07/industry-pledges-to-protect-student-privacy-is-it-real-or-a-sham thumbnail https://www.paulrubell.com/2014/08/28/encrypting-healthcare-information Use best practices to secure healthcare information, and to treat it with the highest punctilio of care. Thu, 28 Aug 2014 12:33:00 GMT https://www.paulrubell.com/2014/08/28/encrypting-healthcare-information thumbnail https://www.paulrubell.com/2014/08/06/google-eliminates-its-real-name-policy by Paul Rubell, Esq. and Martha H. Oliveros Effective July 15, 2014, Google+ eliminated its Real Name Policy. Now, Google+ permits users to use any name, real or fictitious, on their Google+ profiles. Since its launch of Google+ more than three years ago, Google had strictly enforced its “Real Name Policy”. Google required users to […] Wed, 06 Aug 2014 14:01:00 GMT https://www.paulrubell.com/2014/08/06/google-eliminates-its-real-name-policy thumbnail https://www.paulrubell.com/2014/07/21/humans-walk-on-the-moon-july-20-1969 Where were you? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9HdPi9Ikhk is enhanced video. I am too excited re-watching the events of that wonderful night, a 10 year old boy fixated on a black and white TV with my parents, staying up late, Neil and Buzz enthralling us all. 10:39 pm EDT on July 20, 1969.     Mon, 21 Jul 2014 14:00:00 GMT https://www.paulrubell.com/2014/07/21/humans-walk-on-the-moon-july-20-1969 thumbnail https://www.paulrubell.com/2014/07/11/us-supreme-court-warrants-are-required-to-search-smartphones By Paul Rubell, Esq. In Riley vs. California, decided in June 2014, the United States Supreme Court unanimously ruled that the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution requires the issuance of a search warrant, prior to a police search of a smartphone. In both of these cases, the police had searched the cell phones of people […] Fri, 11 Jul 2014 14:09:00 GMT https://www.paulrubell.com/2014/07/11/us-supreme-court-warrants-are-required-to-search-smartphones thumbnail https://www.paulrubell.com/2014/06/09/linkedin-privacy-policy-be-careful-where-you-click by Paul Rubell, Esq. LinkedIn contains a wealth of important information about businesspeople, and is a source of personal as well as corporate self-marketing. Many people who use LinkedIn do not associate it with social media; it is so unlike Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram that it does not have the same sense of immediacy and […] Mon, 09 Jun 2014 14:00:00 GMT https://www.paulrubell.com/2014/06/09/linkedin-privacy-policy-be-careful-where-you-click thumbnail https://www.paulrubell.com/2014/04/03/father-loses-80000-age-discrimination-settlement-via-facebook-post by Paul Rubell, Esq. Pity poor Patrick Snay, who until 2011 was the Director and Head of Schools at Guillver Preparatory School in Miami. Mr. Snay’s 2010-2011 employment agreement was not renewed, and Snay sued the school for age discrimination. Gulliver Schools, Inc. et al v. Patrick Snay. The lawsuit was settled in November 2011 […] Thu, 03 Apr 2014 14:30:00 GMT https://www.paulrubell.com/2014/04/03/father-loses-80000-age-discrimination-settlement-via-facebook-post thumbnail https://www.paulrubell.com/2014/02/13/how-disruptive-is-the-cloud by Paul Rubell, Esq. Big data is disruptive technology. As a result, cloud computing poses both legal and practical challenges to privacy and information security. The digital location of data is essential to its warehousing, use and manipulation. But its very existence makes the data vulnerable to malicious and inadvertent breach. This is not a […] Thu, 13 Feb 2014 19:22:00 GMT https://www.paulrubell.com/2014/02/13/how-disruptive-is-the-cloud thumbnail https://www.paulrubell.com/2014/01/16/hacking-starbucks-app-uccino UPDATE: ON JANUARY 16, 2014, THE SAME DAY THAT I PUBLISHED THIS BLOG, STARBUCKS ISSUED A SECURITY UPDATE TO ITS MOBILE APP TO CURE SOME OF THE DEFICIENCIES THAT I IDENTIFIED BELOW. A major security flaw in the mobile Starbucks app is exposing more than 7 million customers to theft. Not just identity theft: directly […] Thu, 16 Jan 2014 19:30:00 GMT https://www.paulrubell.com/2014/01/16/hacking-starbucks-app-uccino thumbnail https://www.paulrubell.com/2013/12/02/apple-3d-printing-and-the-future-of-consumer-electronics Advanced manufacturing continues to accelerate in adoption. For industry, 3d printing is enabling automation, the fabrication of lighter, longer lasting, and higher tensile parts. From jet engine nozzles (Rolls Royce) to bicycle saddles (Giant), the advent of new manufacturing techniques continues to snowball. The intellectual property law aspects of 3d printing are another story. Who […] Mon, 02 Dec 2013 18:30:00 GMT https://www.paulrubell.com/2013/12/02/apple-3d-printing-and-the-future-of-consumer-electronics thumbnail https://www.paulrubell.com/2013/11/15/europes-digital-agenda-safe-cloud-computing The European Union is seeking to unify the policies of its numerous constituent countries with a Pan-European open data portal. Commissioner Nellie Kroes of the EU has spoken widely in recent months about Europe’s economic need to catch up to the United States in migrating to the cloud (ie big data) and taking advantage of […] Fri, 15 Nov 2013 14:30:00 GMT https://www.paulrubell.com/2013/11/15/europes-digital-agenda-safe-cloud-computing thumbnail