Faruki Blog

Avoiding Checkmate: DOJ Releases Guidelines to Assist Companies in Formulating Preventative and Responsive Data Security Measures

Data security is like chess. A million strategies exist, and the best players are those that practice, plan, and react calmly. When you play chess.. Read More

Reviewing the Rules of the Road following Uber's 2015 Data Breach Response

When I was sixteen, the rule was that I could not drive a car until I knew how to change a tire. My dad always reminded me that it is dangerous just.. Read More

What Price, On-Line Privacy?

Last week, indeed Friday the 13th, President Obama convened a "Cyber Summit" of business, technology and government leaders to address mounting.. Read More

Really? This Is Still a Thing?

I've been working in privacy for about 12 years now, and it truly is a profession where nothing can really surprise you. You would think in 2015, in.. Read More

California S.B. 568: A License to Bully?

"We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out." – Winston Churchill On January 1, 2015, California Senate Bill 568, titled.. Read More

Is That a Threat?

In December 2014, movie theaters found themselves in a predicament. Following an anonymous hacker's threat to release confidential data stolen from.. Read More

A Few Things We Can Learn from Sony

Eating up the data breach airways for the past month has been the hacking of Sony Pictures. As with any breach in the news, the Internet is full of.. Read More

Could the Sony Cyber-Attack Clarify the First Amendment?

Late last month, Sony Pictures Entertainment ("SPE") was the victim of a massive cyber-attack, which crippled the Hollywood studio’s network and.. Read More

No Laughing Matter -- Why the Cartoon Network Case Points Out a Shortsighted Flaw in Defining Personally Identifiable Information Narrowly

In the past, I have blogged about de-identification. Simply put, de-identification is the process of rendering personally identifiable data.. Read More

Getting Familiar with the HIPAA Data Breach Rule (Part 1)

We recently hosted representatives from the Office of Civil Rights (“OCR”) in both Dayton and Cincinnati. During their visits, they provided.. Read More
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