Author: JHTL

Monetary Fines and Monopolization: The Case for More Aggressive Anti-Trust Measures in the World of Tech

By William Raven “Google was the original gateway to the web. I’m here today to speak about how Google betrayed the web” stated Yelp policy head Luther Lowe at a Senate hearing on digital platforms focusing on anticompetitive practices. “Google physically demoted non-Google results even if they contained information with higher quality scores” further claimed… Read More Monetary Fines and Monopolization: The Case for More Aggressive Anti-Trust Measures in the World of Tech

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AI-Powered Contract Management Systems: AI to Solve the Struggle of Contracting

Nearly all growing companies, including law firms, employ a small legal team working hard behind the scenes on various paperwork transactions, especially contracts. These legal teams carry great influence and play a vital business role. A recent study conducted by a software company, Apttus, revealed that 65-percent of legal professionals say that their biggest challenge at work is the time lost locating, reviewing, and analyzing paper documents. As a result, 40-percent of legal departments now use some sort of automated contract management system to deal with their paperwork transactions. Further, 29-percent of law firms are actively seeking the use of a contract management system, and it’s about time. Recent technological developments like artificial intelligence have assisted and boosted contract management systems by helping companies overcome the challenges of contracting. The rise of artificial intelligence integrated contract management systems is inevitable and legal teams must learn the technology or they will fall behind to their competition and fail client expectations.… Read More AI-Powered Contract Management Systems: AI to Solve the Struggle of Contracting

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Privacy Risks vs. Public Health: How to Vote During A Pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic has uprooted our global society and changed the way society functions. COVID-19 poses a serious threat to individuals’ ability to vote. With state primaries and the 2020 presidential election looming, states and lawmakers are frantically trying to solve the issue of voting access and voter security during a time of social distancing and quarantine restrictions. … Read More Privacy Risks vs. Public Health: How to Vote During A Pandemic

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Curtailing Cosmetics Companies—The FTC’s Attempt to Regulate Social Media Influencers in the Age of Influencer Marketing

This blog will address the FTC’s attempt to prevent deceptive advertising that has been an issue in the beauty industry following the vast increase in the use of social media influencers to market cosmetics products. The focus of this blog will be on the highly competitive commercial space of the beauty industry and how this has led to the use of deceptive advertising practices from large cosmetics corporations to target consumers through the use of various social media platforms and popular influencers.
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Are Mental Health Apps Used by Colleges Risking Students’ Privacy?

By Camille Stecker Growing demand for mental health services on college campuses has resulted in the development of dozens of mental health apps. However, with a high demand universities and colleges need to consider the consequences of sensitive student information on app platforms. Mental health apps are not always considering young students’ privacy rights. Therefore,… Read More Are Mental Health Apps Used by Colleges Risking Students’ Privacy?

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The Push For Intellectual Property Protections In The Cannabis Industry

This blog focuses on the difficulties that companies and individuals in the cannabis industry are facing in receiving intellectual property protection for their products. Cannabis is only legal in a few states and faces high scrutiny in the federal level, thus leaving minimal federal protection for any cannabis products. This blog explores why federal protection is important for cannabis products and acknowledges current caselaw that is fighting against these restrictions… Read More The Push For Intellectual Property Protections In The Cannabis Industry

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Obsolescence: The Non-Compete is a Lethargic Non-Disclosure Agreement in the Technology Industry

Generally, in Massachusetts, non-competes are enforceable when they are reasonable in their duration, geographic area, and scope, and necessary to protect a legitimate business interest among other elements. I plan to focus on how technology has disrupted the interpretation of these elements in the courts. … Read More Obsolescence: The Non-Compete is a Lethargic Non-Disclosure Agreement in the Technology Industry

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Use the List, problem dismissed? How placing Chinese firms on the Entity List may better protect American business Interests.

This blog discusses the potentiality of adding Chinese firms which, violate American intellectual property laws to the Commerce Department’s Entity List. A national security decision with implications for Chinese trade, and those American businesses with which they do business.… Read More Use the List, problem dismissed? How placing Chinese firms on the Entity List may better protect American business Interests.

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“What, Like it’s Hard?” — State Proposals Suggest Expanding Non-Lawyers’ Abilities to Practice Law

By Danielle Breen After the California State Bar established the California State Bar Task Force on Access Through Innovation of Legal Services (ATILS), Utah and Arizona created similar task forces to explore ways to close the access to justice gap. Other states such as Oregon and Washington also implemented smaller programs in an attempt to… Read More “What, Like it’s Hard?” — State Proposals Suggest Expanding Non-Lawyers’ Abilities to Practice Law

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Cult-favorite Skin Care Company Smooths Out Major Wrinkle with FTC Settlement

Texas-based skin care company Sunday Riley was issued a settlement order which put to rest charges brought by the FTC for deceptive trade practices. The company had been instructing its employees to create fake Sephora accounts and leave positive reviews for Sunday Riley products under the guise of ordinary consumers. For two years, Sunday Riley had been engaging in these practices in order to boost product ratings and increase its sales. The no-money, no-fault settlement entered into by the FTC and Sunday Riley has garnered criticism due to its lack of punishment for the company’s federal law violations.… Read More Cult-favorite Skin Care Company Smooths Out Major Wrinkle with FTC Settlement

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AirDrop Technology Opening the Door to Anonymous Sexual Harassment

iPhone’s AirDrop software technology has created a new form of sexual harassment. The software allows people to share photographs and other media content with fellow iPhone users in their contacts or anyone their AirDrop may connect to in public. The AirDrop design software allows images to appear without people having the chance to block them. More and more people are taking advantage of AirDrop to anonymously send lewd or threatening images to complete strangers. … Read More AirDrop Technology Opening the Door to Anonymous Sexual Harassment

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For Security’s Sake: Limiting the Regulation of Biometric Data to Commercial Activity

This blog discusses the potential outcome of a suit against Home Depot and Lowes for violation of the Illinois Biometrics Information Privacy Act in utilizing software which tracks the movement of individuals in their stores based on facial recognition. The merits of implementing a commercial purpose limitation on the regulation of biometric data is then discussed.… Read More For Security’s Sake: Limiting the Regulation of Biometric Data to Commercial Activity

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