Category: Social Media Law

Not all HIPAA privacy “breaches” are caused by “hackers” — dentist gets $50k penalty for responding to patient’s Google review

When thinking of HIPAA data breaches, most of us tend to think of situations where the hackers engage in malicious activities against hospitals and steal troves of patients’ protected health information (PHI). There are, however, other much simpler kinds of HIPAA privacy breaches that are easily avoidable and can be quite costly to the healthcare…

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Social Media Malware: What Is It and How do You Avoid It?

Guest Post by Cassie Phillips You can’t have spent more than a week on the internet without hearing about malware and its adverse effects on your computer or even your smartphone (smartphone malware is on the rise as well). Perhaps you’ve even had to spend half a day cleaning it off your computer yourself. It…

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Kevin O’Keefe Interviews Shawn Tuma About Blogging at State Bar of Texas 2015 Annual Meeting

I had the wonderful opportunity to visit with and get to know Kevin O’Keefe (@kevinokeefe) at the State Bar of Texas 2015 Annual Meeting in San Antonio. Kevin is the Founder and CEO of LexBlog, the preeminent source for legal blogging (where I plan to head, one day). Kevin and I both did presentations during…

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Why Hackers Love Companies Who Use Social Media – The Point

I read an interesting article that discusses the intersection between social media and cybersecurity. The gist is that the bad guys use information they learn on social media (recall my lessons on business situational awareness) to engage in social engineering / spear phishing attacks based upon that intel. Read more: Why Hackers Love Companies Who Use Social…

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Business Social Media Accounts Can Be Part of Bankruptcy Estate

A Southern District of Texas bankruptcy court ruled that business social media accounts are property that has value and belongs to the subject business. Therefore, the accounts are part of the businesses’ bankruptcy estate and must be surrendered by the businesses’ former owner. The case is In re: CTLI LLC, No. 14-33564 (Bankr. S.D. Tx. Apr. 3, 2015). Here is a more extensive article…

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New York Court Permits Service of Divorce Papers via Facebook

Justice Matthew Cooper, of the Manhatten Supreme Court, made a landmark ruling that permits a woman to serve divorce papers on her estranged husband via Facebook messenger. In this case, it only makes sense to permit this: The husband has deserted the wife The husband has no fixed address or place employment The husband’s only contact…

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Part 3 of Series: Simple Ways to Use Social Media to Build Your Practice in One Hour

Here is the third and final post in my 3 part series on Cordell Parvin’s blog: Lawyers: Simple Ways to Use Social Media Marketing in One Hour: Part 3 | Cordell Parvin Blog. If you missed them, here are the first two posts: Part 2 of Series: Simple Ways to Use Social Media Marketing in One…

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