As the Pandemic pushes into 2022, Zoom and other virtual networks continue to provide the platform for work meetings, conferences, academic classes, happy hour sessions, and more. When the pandemic hit, people throughout the country quickly panicked. The question of “how can we conduct our usual activities without leaving the house?” seemed like a foreign …
The recent Facebook whistle-blower allegations sparked action in Congress with the introduction of new bills to attempt to regulate the tech industry. The bill that was cosponsored by Minnesota Democrat Amy Klobuchar and Iowa Republican Chuck Grassley seeks to destroy the technological monopolies and encourage competition in a market that has been monopolized for so …
Privacy law might be about to enter a new age as 23andMe begins to implement its next stage of business. 23andMe hopes to expand their business, from genetically mapping ancestral heritage and locating predisposed genetic conditions, into a pharmaceutical company that crafts medicines from the insights gained from the statistical data of millions of genetic …
Mark Zuckerberg announced in a video featured at the Facebook Connect 2021 augmented and virtual reality conference at the end of October that Facebook’s parent company, Facebook, Inc., would be changing its name to Meta Platforms, Inc. The video contained an explanation and demonstration of Zuckerberg and Meta’s ambitions for the “metaverse.” It also featured …
Today, more than ever, robotexts—spam texts sent automatically in an attempt to gain information—have plagued cellphones. It seems like I can’t go a day without receiving a text about my “vehicle’s extended warranty” or paying a medical bill for a treatment I never received. I know I am not alone struggling with receiving unwanted an …
Last week, DoorDash filed a complaint in the U.S. District Court in the Southern District of New York regarding a New York City ordinance requiring that DoorDash share customers’ personal information to every restaurant that fulfills an order through the app. According to the complaint, every time someone orders food through DoorDash in New York, …
Last week, it was revealed that the LAPD used Dataminr, a social media surveillance company, to monitor the social media accounts of activists, protestors, and journalists during the Black Lives Matter protests following the murder of George Floyd. This discovery comes after several emails obtained through the California Public Records Act proved that Dataminr notified …
