By: Maddy Lally The same hackers who made headlines not so long ago after tapping into CIA Director John Brennan’s personal email account are at it again. Except this time, the group that goes by the name “Crackas with Attitude” (“CWA”) is not just targeting agency and political officials or celebrities. Instead, their victims… Read More How Safe is Your Sealed Record?
By: Linda Vo Most recently, the Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”) fined AT&T a record $100 million, the largest proposed fine in the agency’s history, “for allegedly deceiving millions of smartphone customers about unlimited wireless data plans.” Soon after signup, subscribers of unlimited data have found that they are unable to enjoy truly unlimited data… Read More Verizon’s $20 Surcharge for Grandfathered Unlimited Wireless Data
By: Rashi Mangalick Text messaging has far surpassed the amount of phone calls made in the United States for over seven years. New and innovative communication types have been emerging from the technology market and penetrating into other arenas for years, with many applications (“apps”) specifically devoted to messaging someone else at an instant rate.… Read More A Little Text Can Go a Long Way
By: Marissa Louro Customers of the financial services industry should place a stronger emphasis on trust when selecting a financial institution. Why? Many financial institutions collect customers’ personal information in order to provide personal benefits. Clients should be at ease knowing their respective financial institutions are protecting their private information, but are they? In a… Read More Is Trust Undervalued in the Financial Services Industry?
By: Emily O’Toole Ride sharing services are businesses in high demand. Uber is a worldwide ridesharing company that has more than 8 million riders and more than 1 million registered drivers. Uber provides a variety of services. One popular rideshare service is UberX. This service has a lower fare than Uber Taxi or Uber Black… Read More Uber Drivers and Liability: Driving for the new Uberpool service in Boston May Not be Worth the Liability Risk
By: Harrison Lebov Daily Fantasy Sports (“DFS”) offer a participant, whether he or she is an avid fantasy gamer or a casual sports fan, the opportunity to partake in a fantasy sports experience where the user goes from player selection to payout in just a day. This format is often preferable because it allows… Read More Daily Fantasy Sports is Not Your Father’s Fantasy Sports League
By: Alex Praschma As modern-day technology continues to evolve in our society, legal issues trail closely behind. To no surprise, this common phenomenon is no different when it comes to our culture’s fascination with mobile dating apps. If you have read recent news articles, you have probably heard of the app, Tinder, nicknamed the “dating… Read More Tinder: Kindling Romantic Flames or Putting Them Out?
By: Caroline Murphy Many Facebook users will share aspects of their private lives, whether it’s by posting an Instagram worthy meal, a selfie, or details about the good and bad moments in their life. Users are apt to share private information publicly without knowing their proprietary rights to that information. Last week, many Facebook users relied… Read More What Compelled Facebook Users to Fall for Facebook’s “Legal Notice” Hoax?
By: Sayyedeh Parastoo Vakili The emergence of new technological advances can be useful to human kind and difficult for a nation to resist its benefits, but when countries are enhancing their technology with atomic and nuclear weapons they must comply with the international laws or be subject to international regulations. Since 2006, we have seen… Read More High-Tech Inspections in Response to Iran’s Nuclear Development
By: Christopher E. Sawin Whether reading books or watching movies, such as RoboCop, The Terminator, and even X-Men, super soldiers have universally been considered somewhere between science-fiction and fantasy-fiction. However, until recently, the idea of creating an army of super soldiers, as war fighting killing machines may become a reality sooner than you may… Read More Laws of War: The Legality of Creating an Army of Super Soldiers
By: Doug Mondell It’s the oldest story in the book: sixteen-year-old girl “sexts” sixteen-year-old boy explicit pictures of herself, and boy “sexts” girl back. Well, maybe it’s not the oldest story, but it seems like pretty normal teenage activity, right? What’s not normal is that both teens were charged with distributing explicit material to minors.… Read More No "Sexts” for You
By: Courtney Fears “The content you are trying to access is unavailable in this area.” No one likes to see this message. Ever. Especially when they pay for what is supposed to be seemingly unlimited access to any movie, television show or documentary their heart desires. Unfortunately, this is where the copyright holder’s economic interest… Read More Geo-blocking: Annoying but Necessary?
By: Sam Syska Imagine you are a high-level executive with extremely sensitive and personally identifiable information stored on your desktop. You then have your desktop linked to your laptop, which is linked to your iPad and finally, your phone. Now assume that none of your devices are properly encrypted and a group of hackers are… Read More Cyber-Security is a Must to Protect American’s Electronic Privacy
By: Devin Woolf Have you ever attended a fantasy draft party? Cheered for a Patriot’s rival because one of their players was on the starting lineup of your fantasy team and would get you the win in your matchup for the week? If you can relate, you are among hundreds of thousands of other… Read More Fantasy Sport Teams Can Only Live in a Regulation-Free Fantasy World for So Long
By: Andrew Glenny Pharmaceutical patents are an important part generating innovation in the pharmaceutical technology. It costs a great deal of money and investments to develop a new drug. The Constitution allows Congress to allow inventors to have a monopoly on their inventions for a limited period of time. This provision of the Constitution… Read More Pharmaceuticals, What’s the Cost?
By: Rashi Mangalick Text messaging has far surpassed the amount of phone calls made in the United States for over seven years. New and innovative communication types have been emerging from the technology market and penetrating into other arenas for years, with many applications (“apps”) specifically devoted to messaging someone else at an instant rate.… Read More A Little Text Can Make a Big Difference
By: Elizabeth Libro Facebook is one of the largest social networking services in the world. Nowadays everyone seems to have a Facebook profile. For the past several years a Facebook scam regarding users privacy rights to their profile information has been sweeping the Internet, this year is no exception. The newly trending version of… Read More The Facebook Ploy: Privacy Rights Fact and Fiction
By: Derek M. Ciulla Until this month, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and many local police departments have been using a surveillance device that can track you through your cell phone and search your cell phone without a warrant. Moreover, without you even knowing about it. The device is a cell site simulator… Read More Federal Law Enforcement Finally Required to Obtain a Warrant to Track Cell Phones
By: Philip Kachajian It is no understatement to suggest that phone-based taxi service apps such as Uber and Lyft have fundamentally altered what for so long had been an industry completely dominated by traditional taxi companies. As with so many other fields, the world of taxi’s, courtesy cars, hotel and airport shuttles, and limos, once… Read More Car Trouble: Taxi Service App “Lyft” Penalized for Forcing Users to Accept Unsolicited Ads
By: Chris Gavrielidis Cars of the future have been imagined in many creative ways. From the automated cars of iRobot that travel 200 miles per hour, to their sleek design in Minority Report as they ride on vertical surfaces, we have seen them in various shapes and sizes. But did we foresee this technology originating… Read More Hi-Tech Cars and Torts: Losing Control of a Three-Ton Joystick