As the technology infrastructure in Qatar becomes increasingly sophisticated, more companies are beginning to take a closer look at the issue of data protection. This article considers the legislative provisions governing data protection in Qatar. Presently Qatar does not have a single body of legislation that specifically addresses matters of data protection. Rather, Qatar’s data…
Category: Laws
Salutary Legislative Efforts to Permit Pseudonymous Litigation
Danielle Citron gives a shoutout to a proposed bill that would allow some – but not all – victims of harassment or abuse to sue pseudoanonymously: Hawaii’s proposed Senate Bill 288, if enacted, could be invoked to combat this problem when the online harassment occurs in domestic abuse cases. The bill would permit pseudonymous papers…
Text of H.R. 611, BEST PRACTICES Act online
As noted earlier this week, Rep. Bobby Rush introduced H.R.611, a bill he had introduced in the previous Congress: the “Building Effective Strategies to Promote Responsibility Accountability Choice Transparency Innovation Consumer Expectations and Safeguards Act” (also known as “BEST PRACTICES Act“). Last year, the bill (H.R.5777 in its previous incarnation) had no co-sponsors and never…
Kansas bill would increase penalties for ID theft
Dion Lefler reports: Legislation to increase the penalties for identity theft wasn’t Rep. Les Osterman’s bill, but it just as well might have been. Osterman personalized the legislation’s intent Friday before the House passed it. He related his own experience when someone stole his credit card numbers and he had to spend $10,000 of his…