Justin Shiroff

In the ongoing iPhone encryption battle between the Department of Justice (“DOJ”) and Apple, March 22, 2016 might have been a pivotal moment in the national discourse on digital privacy rights, encryption, and the bounds of...more Earlier this month, the California Attorney General’s Office released the 2016 Data Breach Report covering years 2012 through 2015 for the State of California (the “AG’s Report”). The AG’s Report reveals that 557 data...more Last spring we posted a summary of Nevada’s data security laws. Since then, during the 2015 legislative session, the Nevada legislature adopted certain amendments to the statute. The changes took effect on July 1, 2015....more In May 2015, the Ponemon Institute released its tenth annual Cost of Data Breach Study, sponsored by IBM. The study sets forth the average calculated cost for each lost or stolen record containing “sensitive and confidential...more