Disturbing revelations about just how far our government will go to justify their actions to the public have emerged today. A watchdog analysis released on Thursday shows that the leading American professional group for psychologists […]
Tag: Law
U.S. Senate Takes Aim At Patent Trolls With Reform Legislation
Last year, bipartisan legislation designed to curb patent trolls got stuck in a Senate bottleneck, with then-Judiciary Chairman Patrick J. Leahy of Vermont saying he was “furious” with his fellow Democrat, then-Majority Leader Harry Reid, […]
HBO And Showtime Sue Over Crimes Yet To Be Committed
HBO and Showtime are no stranger to online piracy. Their TV-shows are pirated millions of times each month. Yet they haven’t been known to go after sites that host their content illegally yet the upcoming […]
Deutsche Bank CEO To Stand Trial For Purgery
Corruption starts at the top and in the case of Deutsche Bank it appears to have gone all the way to the very top. CEO Juergen Fitschen is one of five defendants in a trial […]
How Do We Police Computer Algorithms That Collude?
The rules governing humans colluding to fix prices and reduce competition are well established law. But what if two computer programs are tasked with setting prices and end up colluding based on their strategy choices? […]
Why Our Politicians Should Study Singapore’s Prime Minister
John McCain, the senior Arizona Senator, revealed in March he doesn’t use email. Senator Ted Stevens, of Alaska, once referred to the internet as a “series of tubes”. Mitt Romney, regarded as one of the […]