The U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts is the latest court to rule that virtual currencies are commodities, and subject to Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) jurisdiction.
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The Sedona Conference®, a nonprofit research and educational think tank dedicated to the advanced study of law, particularly in information governance, has released its Incident Response Guide , open for public comment through June 19, 2018. Drafted by Working Group on Data Security and Privacy Liability (WG11), the guide is meant to serve as a practical resource for practitioners dealing with the legal, technical, and policy issues related to data-related incidents – from distributed denial-of-service to ransomware attacks.
