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After the Attorney General announced charges against five members of the Chinese Army for hacking and stealing six U.S. company’s trade secrets, Marc Zwillinger spoke with CNBC about the historic indictment

The Washington Post reported that tech giants such as Apple and Microsoft are updating their policies to notify users of government data seizures. Regarding this update Marc Zwillinger was quoted saying, “Post-Snowden, there is a greater desire to compete on privacy,” said Zwillinger, “Companies have had notice policies and cared about these issues for years. It’s only now that it’s being discussed at the CEO level.”

Surveillance and espionage were once practices ordinary Americans only read about in novels or saw in movie theaters. That is no longer true. America is at the center of a worldwide communications network. It is home to the world’s most popular telecommunications, email, instant message, and video chat providers. Because of America’s unique role, hundreds of millions of users send communications through American soil. At the same time, America’s enemies have grown from nation-states, like the Soviet Union, to small cells of terrorists that use ordinary communications networks. Taken together, it is not surprising that signals intelligence agencies like the National Security Agency (NSA), which intercept and analyze these signals, would seek and use surveillance powers to conduct more surveillance at home.

Marc Zwillinger weighs-in about the inconsistency of decisions regarding court requests for cell phone and personal data in this Washington Post article

“Granting search authority to service providers would present its own challenges, said Marc Zwillinger of Wash­ing­ton’s ZwillGen, which focuses on privacy and security work. It could tighten existing tensions between Internet service providers and the government, he said.”

Ken Dreifach is quoted in Bloomberg Technology about Harvard professor and “part internet sleuth,” Benjamin Edelman

“Marc Zwillinger, a former Justice lawyer who represents tech firms on cyber issues, said both judges’ decisions to allow Klayman and the ACLU to sue the government likely opens the door for more legal actions against the NSA. The Obama administration, he said, may have aided in that process by declassifying reams of secret judicial orders on surveillance in response to leaks of NSA documents by former agency contractor Edward Snowden.”

Ken Dreifach is featured in a Law360 article about Poker as a “Game of Skill” rather than illegal gambling.

See Ken featured in this DMA blog entry where he shares insights on the importance of self-regulation, and on how data governance ‘Best Practices’ can provide vendors, platforms and service providers with real competitive advantages.

In an ABC News interview, Marc Zwillinger comments on credit reporting agency Equifax’s confirmed breach and the theft of financial information.