15 June 2013 – Earlier this week Eric and I added to the stream of comments on the revelations about the enormous electronic surveillance program conducted by the National Security Agency (NSA) via its program PRISM with some general thoughts, and then some thoughts on the issues from the European perspective. As many commentators have done, we referred to George Orwell and his book “1984″.

We received quite a few reactions and comments and…

By: Gregory P. Bufithis, Esq.  (founder, Senior Writer) and Eric De Grasse (Chief Technology Officer)

13 June 2013 – So in the land that makes litigation fun, the American Civil Liberties Union, together with the New York Civil Liberties Union, filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court in New York which claims that the National Security Agency’s (NSA) surveillance of millions of Verizon customers is unconstitutional. The suit lists key members of the Obama administration’s national security team…

12 June 2013 – For the past three years the Financial Times has been running a series on … for lack of a better term … “data”.  Articles have appeared in its “Connected Business” section (6 editions a year), it’s “Cybersecurity” section (twice a year) and in its regular weekday and weekend editions.  Subjects have included EU data protection, the corporate competition to accumulate information about consumers, concerns about government surveillance (yes, before PRISM), unregulated companies…

By: Gregory P. Bufithis, Esq.  (CEO) and Eric De Grasse (Chief Technology Officer).  

10 June 2013 – Wow. So George Orwell and Philip K. Dick were right: “They quite literally can watch your ideas form as you type” (quoting Glenn Greenwald, the blogger who revealed the existence of PRISM as leaked to him by Edward Snowden, the 29-year-old former C.I.A. computer technician). Although what immediately came to mind was the 1998 movie “Enemy…

5 June 2013 – Organizations and their employees are leveraging social media tools at unprecedented levels. With over 150 million blogs, an average of 90 million tweets every day, and 100s of millions of users of social media sites (SMS) worldwide, organizations are challenged to define usage policies and implement solutions to appropriately govern, discover and preserve relevant information from these complex and malleable data sources.

We all get caught up with the complicating…

5 June 2013 – We have known Johannes Scholtes (Chairman and Chief Strategy Officer of ZyLAB) and Mary Mack (Enterprise Technology Counsel of ZyLAB) for many years now having interviewed both numerous times at LegalTech as well as covering such events as ZyLAB Universe. They both have also been instrumental in assisting us with our e-discovery work in war crimes tribunals at The Hague.

And quite frankly we enjoy chatting with them because…

31 May 2013 – As we have been parsing through all the material we gleaned and the interviews we conducted at last week’s  Georgetown Law Cybersecurity Institute and begin writing our post about the event,  we have also been reading a host of information on the topic and came across a Wired magazine piece about those fun guys over at DARPA.

One of the many cyberwarfare projects coming out of the US…

By:  Gregory P. Bufithis, Esq.  

31 May 2013 – Every other year, courtesy of one of my IP clients, I receive a one-day pass to attend the World Economic Forum in Davos.   It was two and one-half years ago that I was fortunate enough to attend the WEF when “data as an asset class” was the central theme.  I was immersed in presentations and talks and chats on how we had moved towards a…

21 May 2013 - 21 May 2013 - We tend to wax lyrical when it comes to the Georgetown Law CLE events.  We have been covering them since the epic “Law Firm Evolution” conference in 2010 right through to the outstanding “Corporate Counsel Institute – Europe” events, as well as the Georgetown annual Advanced E-Discovery Institute. Larry Center … the guiding light behind (over?) the programs … always assembles an “A List” of law firm leaders, government…

21 May 2013 – We have all seen the almost daily analysis. In terms of the “innovation category” Europe continues to lag behind the US and Japan with regard to innovation drivers, knowledge creation, intellectual property, innovation & entrepreneurship and applications. The expenditure of R&D, ICT expenditure, broadband penetration rates, the population with tertiary education, etc. all lag.

These were some of the key points made at the Open Innovation…