One of the owners of a poker website is going to jail for the crime of deceiving banks who were processing gambling revenues. As I explained before, gambling is one of those dangerous areas online …
Do you make this Internet privacy mistake?
According to the grapevine, Google is about to pay the government $16,000 for every day the company apparently violated privacy rights. While that’s peanuts for a company the size of Google, what are …
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Internet Lawsuits: The Saga of Charles Carreon and The Oatmeal
What started out as a copyright infringement dispute between The Oatmeal and Funny Junk has spawned numerous lawsuits and some unwanted publicity for Internet Lawyer Charles Carreon and alleged …
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Obamacare Supreme Court Decision Word Cloud
Because the Obamacare U.S. Supreme Court decision upholding the individual mandate under Congress' taxing power will affect Internet-related business, I'm posting a word cloud of the court's decision …
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Hacking costs hotel chain
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has just sued a hotel chain for deceptive trade practices. Here’s what is alleged to have occurred. Hackers repeatedly gained access to hotel guests’ credit …
Deceptive Endorsements: Spokeo and the FTC
There's been a lot of focus in the $800,000 Spokeo settlement with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on alleged violations of the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA).However, it's important to …
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