Keeping Up with the Joneses: A Cloud Story

Many companies go to the cloud to keep up with the Joneses or others. Some go to the cloud to keep up with their own needs. Others set impossible requirements that preclude the cloud. Yet others set goals that make creating on-site difficult. Many who go to the cloud, however, go without thought. There are …

Round One in Social Media and First Amendment Rights

I recently wrote an article about a potential class action court case being brought against the President of the United States by the Knight Foundation. In the article, I posited that public servants who use their private social media accounts to make work-related statements may run the risk of causing their accounts to become public …

Where Is Data Protection?

When I write “data protection,” do you assume this means endpoint security, data security, data encryption, disaster recovery, or business continuity? Or do you think it entails just knowing where your data resides? Actually, it could mean all of the above, which in turn means that data protection comprises several overlapping technologies. There is no …

Twitter and the Right Not to Be Blocked

What follows in pure conjecture, and in no way constitutes legal opinion. It merely outlines one of many possible outcomes. An article in the New York Post on June 6 reported on a potential legal case aiming to force President Trump to unblock users he has blocked from seeing or tweeting to his timeline, either directly …