One downside of these mega mergers is that things that have nothing to do with each other are now totally related to each other. Two recent cases. Jeffrey Piccolo filed a lawsuit after his wife, Karen, died at a Disney owned restaurant in Florida. She had a fatal reaction to the food after being assured […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Can Vendors Enforce License Agreements for Kids on Parents? Ed Tech vendors (those companies that sell tech to schools for use by their students) apparently sell your kid’s data and think that because the school agreed to some terms that implicitly binds the parents. In one case, the court said no. I didn’t know that […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]It is a bit unclear. Last time around he railed against big tech. During the campaign he floated a love fest with crypto. Here are some cases that are in doubt. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau took steps to put Google under formal federal supervision. This would give the feds access to very sensitive Google […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Even if the UN passes the cybercrime treaty, the Senate would need to ratify it and Trump would need to sign it. It is unclear what Trump’s opinion of the treaty is but he is not a big fan of the UN. The draft of the resolution was approved yesterday, even as tech companies, human […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]For a while I had a counter on the weekly newsletter of the number of victims. At some point it seems to have calmed down. Now the hacker has released more data, including Amazon employee data. The hacker said that what you have seen is less than 0.001 percent of the data he/she has. He/she […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Housing Market Bracing For Interest Hike Since Trump Won Now that Donald Trump was elected this week, economists are betting that inflation will go up. Research firm Capital Economics plans to actually raise its interest-rate forecast because its economist Thomas Ryan suspects the Federal Reserve’s reaction will be to pull back on slashing rates. The […]
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