When we think about the data privacy rights of people, there tends to be a natural assumption that those people are living. And that’s probably fair. After all, data privacy rights are still in their infancy in the grand scheme of things and there has been no real history of estates suing providers for privacy violations related to a deceased person…

We’ve all gotten those emails. You know, the ones riddled with typos, trying to get you click on something, maybe with suggestive themes or images? And most savvy business people have attained enough tech-competency to know not to click on that stuff. We call it…. SPAM!

All 50 states in the U.S. now have breech notification laws. Many are similar, but some are unique. Places like California, Illinois, New York and Massachusetts have been relatively aggressive in developing a set of regulations to protect their residents from data privacy shenanigans as well as the effects of cybersecurity incidents…