On June 18, Ohio Senator Sherrod Brown proposed legislation before Congress to create a comprehensive federal data privacy law. The bill, the Data Accountability and Transparency Act (DATA) of 2020, would be among the only comprehensive federal laws relating to data...
Without belaboring the point, there are many similarities between the COVID-19 pandemic and cybersecurity. We can take lessons from the response to the COVID pandemic and apply them to cybersecurity. 1. We Know It Is Coming For decades, public health planners have...
People fighting for greater fairness and due process in campus Title IX proceedings have waited nearly two years for the United States Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights to issue formal Title IX regulations. At long last, on May 5, 2020, the regulations...
While Joe Coker crooned, “[y]ou can leave your hat on,” during the titillating movie “9 ½ Weeks,” no one could have predicted in 1986 that in 2020, lovers might be singing, “you can leave your mask on.” While we make this comment tongue in cheek, there is a...
Earlier this year, Amazon implemented a new pricing policy that is causing many sellers fits. Titled the “Amazon Marketplace Fair Pricing Policy,” the new policy seeks to provide shoppers with the lowest prices possible. To do so, Amazon now regularly monitors prices...
With campuses shuttered across the country, students are stuck completing their spring semesters through online distance learning with Zoom or other video conferencing technology. Even with the best professors, this online-only set up can be mind-numbing,...
By David Posteraro As with all aspects of daily life, COVID-19 coronavirus has not spared intellectual property (IP). Neither has it brought it to a halt. As most patent, trademark and copyright filings and prosecutions are done online, and most IP attorneys –...
By Kate Hickner Critical Need for Ohio's Health Care Providers & First Responders As many of you are aware, according to Director of the Ohio Department of Health, Dr. Amy Acton, the amount of personal protective equipment (PPE) that Ohio will receive from the...
In light of the rapid rise of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) throughout all corners of the world in recent months, all experts now appear to agree that “social distancing” is critical to stemming the continued spread of the disease and, ultimately, saving lives....
By now you may have seen the video of college students on Spring Break, cramming together on Florida’s beaches while drinking and partying under the mantra “If I get corona, I get corona.” Aside from this attitude having potentially disastrous consequences for...