The Sixth Circuit's January 2, 2025, decision in Ohio Telecom Association et al. v. Federal Communications Commission et al. may reshape the future of the Internet, delivering a significant blow to the concept of net neutrality and altering the regulatory landscape...
Content By Mark D. Rasch
Un-Nudify Me: Removal Options for Deepfake Pornography Victims
The AI Deepfake Pornography Pandemic The rapid advancement of artificial intelligence (AI) technology has created new challenges that significantly disrupts established legal principles. One facet of AI, with a large potential for abuse, is its seamless capability to...
FTC Sues Amazon Over Its Monopoly Power
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has reinforced its aggressive stance on enforcing antitrust laws by filing a federal lawsuit against Amazon on September 26, 2023. Seventeen other states have also joined in this legal action against Amazon. Per the FTC, “Amazon’s...
Who’s Liable When Your Cryptocurrency Is Stolen?
One of the asserted advantages of blockchain and cryptocurrency is their operation outside the commercial banking system. However, this very feature poses a challenge when cryptocurrency is stolen—or more accurately, transferred without the account holder's...
Coverage Challenges in Ransomware Claims: Cyber Insurance Policies and Trends in Denials
A consistent pattern emerges in data breach and cyber-attack cases when companies turn to their insurers for coverage after such incidents. Whether they possess specialized cyber insurance or not, insurers often decline claims, citing various reasons such as failure...
Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Online Harasser
Online threats and harassment pose a significant problem in today's digital landscape. With the Internet's global reach, the ease of publishing and posting content, and the potential for anonymity or lack of consequences, individuals find it convenient to share...
Federal Court Rules No Common Law Duty to Prevent or Respond to Data Breaches
Like most healthcare entities, Indiana’s Trinity Health collects, stores, maintains and uses a large volume of particularly sensitive information about patients and others, including Personally Identifiable Information (PII) and Protected Health Information (PHI),...
TikTok Time is Up: Montana Becomes the First U.S. State to Ban the App
Only two months after a federal bill was introduced to ban TikTok nationwide, Montana has become the first U.S. state to officially ban TikTok from operating in the state. Governor Greg Gianforte signed S.B 419 into law on Wednesday after the Montana House of...
Federal Appellate Court Approves Pretext Border Search Based on Trade Secret Theft Suspicion
For almost nine years, Haitao Xiang, a Chinese national and U.S. resident, had worked for Monsanto, Co in St. Louis as a research application engineer specializing in hyperspectral imaging technology. As with most jobs of this type, Xiang had signed a non-disclosure...
A New Twist in the Ransomware Debate: Is it Negligent to Fail to Pay Ransom?
Lehigh Valley Health Network (LVHN) is a healthcare network based in Allentown, Pennsylvania, and serves eastern and northeastern Pennsylvania. On Feb. 6th of this year, LVHN was hit with a combination ransomware and extortionware attack, whereby attackers from the...