Tuesday, November 12, 2013, by Kelly Morris The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is to pay AT&T more than $10 million a year for call data. The deal was brokered in order to assist the CIA with foreign counterterrorism investigation, according to a report last week in the New York Times, and will give the CIA …
Thursday, November 7, by Timothy McKeever On October 23, the SEC issued long-awaited proposed rules for Title III of the JOBS Act, taking a big first step towards allowing crowdfunding from non-accredited individual investors for the first time. Crowdfunding allows companies to raise capital by attracting individuals to invest in the company through online “funding …
Thursday, November 7, 2013, by Tony Lucas This past week, Terre des Hommes, an international organization advocating for children rights, turned over the names, contact information, and IP addresses of over 1,000 adults in more than 65 countries suspected of engaging in webcam child sex tourism to law enforcement authorities. This event caught the attention …
Tuesday, November 5, 2013, by Christian Landreth Even though a back injury has prevented Houston Texans running back Arian Foster from making news for his on-field performance in recent weeks, he has remained in the headlines for his latest off-field business venture. Foster has partnered with Fantex Brokerage Services, which bills itself as “[t]he first …
Tuesday, November 5, 2013, by Britton Lewis It has been said time and time again that the only sure things in life are death and taxes, but I’d stipulate there is a third certainty—online shopping—and it appears that two of those certainties may be on a collision course before the Supreme Court. Online shopping through …
Tuesday, November 5, 2013, by Gabriel Kussin The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has held that environmental protection organizations in Washington State do not have standing to sue the state agencies responsible for enforcing the Federal Clean Air Act. The case focused on Washington’s lack of restrictions on oil refineries located in within the state …
Thursday, October 31, 2013, by Matthew Henry Following the national security revelation made by Edward Snowden last summer, attention quickly turned to the means in which he transmitted the information. Snowden had used an email service known as Lavabit. Ledar Levinson founded Lavabit in 2004. Whereas similar services utilized advertisements, Lavabit charged a modest yearly …
Thursday, October 31, 2013, by Stella Kreilkamp This week, Ohio prison officials announced that Ronald Phillips, convicted of raping and killing a 3-year-old girl, would be executed with a combination of two drugs never before used in an execution. Ohio plans on using the untested combination of a sedative, midazolam, and a painkiller, hydromorphone, because …
Tuesday, October 29, 2013, by Brittany Croom A judge for the District Court of North California recently granted a motion for class action certification that will allow employees of tech giants Adobe, Apple, Google, Intel, Intuit, Lucasfilm, and Pixar to move forward with a lawsuit to recover alleged damages. The lawsuit, brought by employees of …
Tuesday, October 29. 2013, by Rory Fleming It has been long established that the direct infringement of a patent does not require knowledge of that patent or intent to infringe. It is up to the developers of new products to check the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s patent database before releasing their products out into …