By: Brenna Ryder Tesla, Inc. (“Tesla”), is recalling nearly 54,000 vehicles because their “Full Self-Driving” software allows the vehicles to roll through stop signs without coming to a complete stop. The recall covers: Model S sedans and X SUVs from 2016 through 2022; Model 3 sedans from 2017 through 2022; and Model Y SUVs from… Read More Tesla Recall: Ensuring Safety or Stifling Innovation?
By: Claire Remillard Almost every American is familiar with the annoyance of receiving a random voicemail notification even though their phone never a received call. These voicemails are often long-winded robotic recordings inquiring about the phone user’s credit card debt or car loans that do not actually exist. These spam calls are commonly known as… Read More You [Don’t] Got Mail: The FCC Finds ‘Ringless Voicemails’ In Violation of The TCPA
By: Jennifer Pepin Targeted advertisements have raised major concerns for consumers who desire their information and data remain private. Companies like Facebook and Google have collected a lot of information over the years about individual consumers and their browsing/buying habits. Using this information, advertisers can narrowly target audiences to market to. These targets can be… Read More Increasing Children’s Data Protection: Could it Lead to the Elimination of Targeted Advertising?
By: Bridget Harrington Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, many retailers have been moving away from traditional methods of payment like cash or chip-enabled credit cards and toward contactless methods such as Apple Pay. Some retailers have even begun accepting cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin as payment for their goods or services. Services like Apple… Read More Staying Crypto-Current: U.S. Treasury Researches Central Bank Digital Currencies Following Several Countries’ Implementation
By: John Gillies Wormhole is a bridge for cryptocurrency transactions in the ever-evolving decentralized finance space (“DeFi”). Cryptocurrency connoisseurs will tell you that Wormhole is a very apt name for the product, as $323 million was exploited by a hacker, seemingly disappearing down a “wormhole” on February 2, 2022. While users have been made whole… Read More Cryptocurrency Bridge “Wormhole” Exploited For $323 Million. Thief or White Hat Hacker?
By: Joseph Cunningham In a sudden move, Microsoft has sought to acquire Activision-Blizzard-King (“ABK”), for just under $70 billion in what would be the industry’s largest all-cash deal. Microsoft aims to bring the widely popular ABK games into its growing cloud subscription service, Xbox Game Pass. The deal will surely grow Microsoft’s already substantial market… Read More Blizzard Bail-Out: Microsoft Swoops in to Acquire the Gaming Giant
By: Bradley Bostwick Because of its $100 million man, Joe Rogan, Spotify is now in the crossfire between artists and customers leaving the platform and Rogan’s fans, who would merely claim him to be a victim of “cancel culture.” This controversy stems from allegations that Rogan’s podcast, The Joe Rogan Experience, has been spreading misinformation… Read More Publisher or Platform: The Joe Rogan Experience Forces Spotify to Choose One
By: Hunter Becker Swiss bank company UBS has agreed to buy U.S digital automated wealth management provider Wealthfront, which has more than $27 billion in assets under its management. The acquisition will be an all-cash deal worth $1.4 billion with Wealthfront, which has more than 470,000 clients in the United States and caters to well-off… Read More Rise of the Machines: Robo-Advisors Under the Spotlight
By: Bridget Harrington Late October 2021 was rife with discussion of climate change; everyone from world leaders at the UN Climate Change Conference, to religious leaders like Pope Francis, and activists such as Greta Thunberg have all spoken about the need for sweeping changes to climate policy. To many, it seems evident that extreme weather… Read More Troubled Waters: Local Government Use of Extreme Weather Detection Systems Presents Questions of the Technology’s Efficacy & Equity
By: Brenna Ryder A California federal judge granted preliminary approval to Zoom Video Communications, Inc., (“Zoom”), users’ $85 million deal resolving privacy and data security claims against the video conferencing provider. U.S. District Judge Lucy H. Koh (“Koh”), granted this initial approval, ruling that “the terms of the settlement agreement do not improperly grant preferential… Read More Title: Zoom Boom!: Zoom Reaches Settlement Over Zoombombing Suits
By: Bradley Bostwick “It’s both terrifying and potentially really inspiring.” These are the words used by Professor Andrew Przybylski to describe Facebook’s shift towards a metaverse-based company. To help understand Facebook’s expansion, the metaverse is what will come after the internet and will be a virtual space where humans can operate and interact with each… Read More Escaping to the…‘Metaverse’?: Facebook Looks to Overshadow Their Poor Consumer Protection With A Company Rebrand
By: John Gillies Even before his removal from Twitter two days after the storming of the Capital on January 6, 2021, former President Donald Trump (“Trump”), has talked about creating his own social media platform to address censorship by the Big Tech companies. That process has now begun and is much more than just a… Read More A Mastodon-Sized Problem: Trump’s Truth Social Neglects To Credit Source Code
By: Joseph Cunningham After a “Cosby Suite,” several governmental investigations and lawsuits, employee walkouts, and lost sponsors, it seems Activision Blizzard, and the video game industry as a whole, are in for a massive change. Activision Blizzard is a massive videogame developer known for games like Call of Duty, World of Warcraft, and Overwatch. Recently,… Read More Blizzard in Hot Water
By: Jack Taylor Rolling green hills, Guinness beer, and American tech companies? Even though the latter may not be as intuitively obvious, all three of these are extremely abundant in the country of Ireland. For decades massive American technology companies have selected Ireland as the location of their European headquarters. This is due to the… Read More The End of the Irish Silicon Valley? How Ireland’s New Minimum Corporate Tax Rate Could Push American Tech Companies Away
By: Christopher Kinney Not long after winning back-to-back Most Valuable Player awards and a league championship, NBA Superstar Giannis Antetokounmpo (“Giannis”), has his sights on a different type of victory: winning in the courtroom. Giannis has come to be known around the league as the “Greek Freak” largely in part due to his Greek heritage… Read More A Force On The Basketball Court And In The Courtroom: A Deeper Look Into Giannis Antetokounmpo’s Recent String Of Intellectual Property Disputes
By: Alexa Sullivan After much deliberation, the U.S. Department of Commerce has announced a new rule aimed at preventing the export or sale of hacking technologies and devices–specifically to countries of concern–such as China and Russia. In the digital era, technology has become a valuable weapon mobilized by other countries and foreign organizations to threaten national… Read More I Spy: Analyzing the new rule passed by the US Department of Commerce restricting the exportation of surveillance spyware
By: Hunter Becker Slack Technologies Inc. (“Slack”), a company acquired by Salesforce and valued at over $25 billion in 2020, is now facing a lawsuit that could find it liable for the statements made in its direct listing. A company can go public a few ways, namely by traditional IPO, direct listing, or reverse merger.… Read More No Slack for Slack
By: Jennifer Pepin Amazon’s Audible book reading services (“Audible”), and phone apps for reading the holy books of Islam and Christianity have disappeared from the Apple store in mainland China. Audible reported that it removed its app from the Apple store because of “permit restrictions.” Apps for listening and reading the Quran and Bible, which… Read More Religious Persecution in China: Removing Audible and ‘Holy Book’ apps from Apple Store
By: Claire Remillard Everyone understands the sinking feeling of flashing lights in your rearview mirror or coming back to your car to find a little piece of paper rustling on the windshield: UGH, you got a ticket. Now you have a choice: will you show up in court to fight the ticket, or will you… Read More Limiting Access to Legal Services: Are You Ticked About The Ruling Against TIKD?
By: Eric Mulvey On October 7, 2021, eighteen former National Basketball Association (“NBA”) players were charged for allegedly defrauding the NBA’s health insurance plan out of approximately $4 million. All nineteen defendants involved with the scheme were charged with conspiracy to commit health care fraud and wire fraud, while Terrence Williams (“Williams”), is facing an… Read More Health Care For All?: 18 Ex-NBA Players Indicted For Fraud