Diane W. Savage

Canada Issues Final Regulations to Anti-Spam Law
Adam J. Ruttenberg,Diane W. Savage, May 10, 2012
In December 2010 Canada passed the Anti-Spam Law ("CASL"), the world's most stringent anti-spam law. The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission ("CRTC") issued the final version of the Electronic Commerce Protection Regulations ("Regulations")...

Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit Narrows Scope of Federal Laws Protecting Trade Secrets
Adam J. Ruttenberg,Diane W. Savage, May 10, 2012
On April 11, 2012, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit issued a much anticipated opinion explaining the reasons that it vacated the conviction of former Goldman Sachs' programmer, Sergey Aleynikov, under the federal National Stolen Property Act ("NSPA") and the...

How Proposed EU-Wide Data Protection Regulation Will Affect U.S. Based Businesses
Susan Lu Lyan,Adam J. Ruttenberg,Diane W. Savage,Charles A. Schwab, January 18, 2012
The text of a proposed new EU-wide regulation on data protection was made available in December 2011 in advance of formal publication this month. The Explanatory Memorandum attached to the proposed General Data Protection Regulation (the "Proposed Regulation") states that it is the result...