Another major data breach was reported on Friday, September 28th, when Facebook disclosed that nearly fifty million user profiles had been hacked. Facebook’s investigation is in the initial stages, and thus details are sparse, but the following is known. Hackers were able to steal “access tokens,” which are essentially digital keys that allow users to …
In Kyllo v. United States, the court held that the use of “sense-enhancing” technology not in general public use to look at a criminal suspect’s house constituted a Fourth Amendment search. However, with the increase of the use of artificial intelligence in surveillance technology, this standard will likely need to be challenged in the near …
In 2017, it was fidget spinners; in 2018, it’s electric scooter rentals. If you’ve recently been in a major city, you’ve surely seen them parked along curbs, breezing through intersections, or even strewn about in unexpected locations. But the popularity of dock-free scooters offered by companies like Bird, Lime, Skip, and Spin has coincided with …
Family members share with each other. However, family members also sue each other. But at least when you sue a family member you can share a ride to the courthouse. However, it does not look like Celine Cousteau, the granddaughter of famed scientist and explorer Jacques Cousteau, will be sharing a ride with her step-grandmother, …
North Carolinians are becoming used to seeing post-apocalyptic pictures of muddy brown water rising up beyond the banks of our rivers, and overtaking agricultural and industrial sites. Hurricane Florence is the second storm in three years to cause massive inland flooding, leading to the breaching of dozens of hog lagoons in the state. Now there …
SpaceX announced that the world’s first private passengers will fly around the moon in the largest reusable rocket ever to be built, the BFR. (Big Falcon Rocket) For an as yet undisclosed amount, Japanese businessman Yusaku Maezawa purchased all of the seats on the rocket for the trip around the moon, and will be choosing …
On Friday, September 7 the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office asked the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn a December 2017 ruling by the Federal Circuit that found Section 2(a) of the Lanham Act’s bar on “immoral or scandalous” material in violation of the First Amendment. In this 2017 case, the Federal Circuit found in favor …
As the North Carolina coast was battered by the unprecedented Hurricane Florence, a coal ash pond at Duke Energy’s Sutton Plant in Wilmington, N.C. collapsed displacing over 2,000 cubic yards of coal ash into nearby water ways. At the time of this writing, “[t]he company has not yet determined whether the weir that drains the …
Ashle Page During his inaugural speech, President Donald Trump declared that “[w]e stand at the birth of a new millennium, ready to unlock the mysteries of space…” In March of 2018, one of those mysteries was unlocked and the idea for a Space Force was born. Some may argue that it was actually created “a …
A trademark includes any word, symbol, or combination thereof which constitutes a brand name. Brands are an essential part of everyday life that allow us to distinguish item sources, set price expectations, and quality expectations. Brand recognition allows consumers to hold the brand accountable, which in turn incentivizes the safety of a manufacturer’s product. To …
