January 2013

Are you a victim of identity theft when your personally identifiable information is stolen?  Is the theft alone, and the risk that your information may be misused, sufficient?  Does your information have to be misused in some fraudulent manner before you can be considered a victim?

A federal appellate court recently weighed in on these

It is sometimes easy to forget with the increasing mobility of electronic information and our ability to “work from anywhere” that behind our office laptop, desktop, or tablet computing device is a network of servers that may be located anywhere in the world.  When we hit “send”, “save”, or “open”, we use the network to