The Business Dispute Law Blog by Bill Garrison

Here is an interesting perspective on the new federal law prohibiting anonymous and "annoying" internet communications.  The potential scope of such a law, which supposedly makes it a federal crime to  use the "internet… without disclosing [one's] identity and with intent to annoy, abuse, threaten, or harass any person…who receives the communications," is so broad and unworkable as to [...]

Texas, like many other states, has passed legislation designed to address the ever-growing problem of identity theft.  The newly-added Identity Theft Enforcement and Protection Act (Chapter 48 of the Business and Commerce Code) requires businesses of all sizes to implement and maintain reasonable procedures to protect "sensitive personal information."   Further, "[i]f an information security breach [...]