A number of courts recently have considered issues relating to individuals’ privacy, the First Amendment, and the public’s right to know. Here, Jay D. Kenigsberg reviews and examines several notable decisions involving these subjects.

Montana Supreme Court Reverses Order to Release College Student’s Educational Records

The Supreme Court of Montana[1] has reversed a trial court’s

On September 21, 2018, the White House issued a new guiding directive on cybersecurity entitled: “National Cyber Strategy of the United States of America.” It is touted as the nation’s “first fully articulated cyber strategy in 15 years.”

True to its title, the National Cyber Strategy substantially addresses the geopolitical status of the United States

The National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) has advanced its Insurance Data Security Model Law (“Model Law”) for likely adoption at its annual Fall National Meeting this December.

The purpose of the new Model Law will be to improve the insurance sector’s ability to respond to cyber incidents. The “insurance sector” includes insurers, agents and

Jay Kenigsberg’s article entitled, “United States v. Ulbricht: Dread Pirate Roberts Pushes the Envelope of the Fourth Amendment,” was published in the September 2017 issue of Pratt’s Privacy & Cybersecurity Law Report.

Click here to read the Report.

On June 15, 2017, AIG and Standard Chartered Bank announced the first multinational smart contract-based insurance policy to function on the blockchain.

AIG partnered with IBM to manage and place multiple insurance policies across multiple countries by using an advanced blockchain framework.  In essence, the bank’s clients in the U.K., U.S., Singapore and Kenya will

When the New York Court of Appeals issued its decision late last year in Kramer v. Phoenix Life Ins. Co.,[1] holding that New York law permitted a person to procure an insurance policy on his or her own life and immediately transfer it to one without an insurable interest in that life, even where the