This blog addresses Massachusetts’ shift away from the “all or nothing” approach taken by many states to address law enforcement’s facial recognition technology use. In Massachusetts, law enforcement agencies have been utilizing official and unofficial databases to conduct facial recognition searches largely without any legal controls or regulation. For example, police have been using the …
A look at the various forms of ownership and some of the issues associated with the rise of Non-Fungible Tokens Background on NFTs Nonfungible tokens (NFT) are driving the latest wave of interest in the blockchain space. An NFT is an asset verified using blockchain tedchnology, “in which a network of computers records transactions and …
Many readers have likely heard of the recent SolarWinds data breach dominating cyber headlines over the past couple months. The SolarWinds hack went viral because company was deeply involved with American government agencies, including intelligence organizations. While federal investigators suspect Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service for the attack, a more recent and comparably unique hack took …
Senator Ben Kieckhefer (R-NV) introduced Senate Bill 165 on March 2 to the Nevada state legislature in order to establish a state esports commission that would govern and regulate competitive video-gaming. It would be the first of its kind formulated as a result of the meteoric rise of esports worldwide. The intention of this bill …
Among the many cryptocurrencies vying for mainstream adoption by banks, the XRP token backing the Ripple payment protocol led the competition, until recently. Unlike many other cryptocurrencies, XRP is not intended to function primarily as a currency, although it can and does trade like any other cryptocurrency. Instead, it is the medium of exchange underlying …
TikTok, a social media platform dedicated to “short-form mobile video”, is one of the most popular apps in the United States. It boasts over 100 million users in America alone and has surpassed two billion total downloads on videos posted to the app. Many of the videos posted to TikTok either include music in them …
Last December Russian-linked hackers breached software vendor SolarWinds. Through deploying a malware-laced update to SolarWinds’ Orion software, the hackers were able to infiltrate multiple government agencies, government networks and U.S.-based companies. The Orion software is commonly used by large organizations to monitor and manage IT resources, including servers, workstations, mobile devices, and internet of things …
In 2019, the Illinois Supreme Court issued a long awaited decision regarding what constitutes standing under the state’s Biometric Information Privacy Act (“BIPA”). In Rosenbach v. Six Flags, the Court held that an individual “need not allege some actual injury or adverse effect, beyond violation of his or her rights under the Act, in order …
The longstanding slogan of ADT security company, “Always There” takes on new meaning, as former ADT employee, Telesforo Aviles, has pleaded guilty to accessing the home security feeds of over 200 customers for sexual gratification. Aviles, who was a technician for ADT, took advantage of a company policy that allowed employees to add their emails …
At the beginning of the pandemic, there was a question of where information regarding COVID-19 hospitalizations should live. Specifically, the question was which federal agency should house these data. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (the CDC) seemed like the obvious place as it is the traditional repository of infectious-disease information. The Trump administration …
