In anticipation of an upcoming cybersecurity workshop to take place September 11-13 in Dallas, on August 28, 2013, the Obama Administration issued several documents relating to the cybersecurity framework that the President called for in his February 2013 Executive Order on cybersecurity.
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Texas Enacts Law Requiring Warrants to Search Emails
On June 14, 2013, Texas Governor Rick Perry signed a bill requiring law enforcement agencies to obtain a warrant showing probable cause that a specific offense has been committed before accessing customer electronic data held by email service providers.
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Texas Enacts Expansive New Health Privacy Law
Last month, Texas Governor Rick Perry signed a new health privacy bill into law that imposes new obligations exceeding those in the HIPAA Privacy Rule. The law could have a broad impact on many non-HIPAA covered entities.
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Proposed Bills Target Google Earth and Google Street View
Google Earth and Google Street View, two popular applications offered by Google that enable users to view detailed satellite images of buildings or street-level panoramas of major roads and neighborhoods, have recently engendered controversy. In the United States, legislators in California and Texas have introduced bills directed at Google Earth and other similar applications. The proposed California bill prohibits operators of commercial Internet websites that make a “virtual globe browser available to members of the public” from providing “aerial or satellite photographs or imagery” of schools, religious facilities or government buildings, unless those images have been blurred. Violators could be fined at least $250,000 and natural persons who knowingly violate the provisions could face imprisonment between one to three years. The proposed Texas bill prohibits any person from publishing on the Internet “an image capable of zooming into greater detail than that of an aerial photograph taken without a magnifying lens 300 feet or higher of private property not visible from the public right-of-way,” and classifies the offense as a Class B misdemeanor, which is punishable by a fine up to $2,000 or 180 days in prison.…
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