AT&T Hit With $23 Million Fine For Bribing Illinois Lawmaker
In just the last decade or so AT&T has been fined $18.6 million for helping rip off programs for the hearing impaired; fined $10.4 million for ripping off a program for low-income families; fined...
View ArticleThousands Of Bite-Sized Privacy Law Violations Could See White Castle...
Illinois’ Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA), passed in 2008, continues to be the Little Legislation That Could. While occasionally hijacked by opportunistic litigants whose privacy hasn’t...
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Recent Case Highlights How Age Verification Laws May Directly Conflict With...
California passed the California Age-Appropriate Design Code (AADC) nominally to protect children’s privacy, but at the same time, the AADC requires businesses to do an age “assurance” of all their...
View ArticleSchool Decides To Harden Security By Giving EVERYONE The Same Password
Cyber security. It’s complicated. Protecting against threats means determining what your threat level is. Demanding everyone utilize a 53-character password with uppercase letters, numbers, and...
View ArticleTop Court In Illinois Says Compelling Password Production Isn’t A Fifth...
Well, this is an unfortunate turn of events. The last time we discussed this issue in this state (March 2019), a state appeals court came to the opposite conclusion: compelling password production is a...
View ArticleThe Man Decides He Doesn’t Like Being Hassled, Issues Tickets To Reporter For...
Some city officials in Illinois are now engaged in a round of “How Can I Get Sued?” Sounds like fun, but Calumet City officials might do well to remember the only way to win is not to play. That’s the...
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Illinois City Decides To Blow Tax Dollars On Operating A Storefront For...
The thin blue line between cops and cop-friendly tech continues to be erased, mostly by cops. No longer content to underserve the public, law enforcement agencies are welcoming the warm embrace of...
View ArticleNo Love For The Haters: Illinois Bans Book Bans (But Not Really)
Across the nation, bigoted politicians (of the Republican variety, almost exclusively) are trying to punish and silence content and expression they don’t like. It’s not like it’s even a close question...
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Filing A Badly Drafted, Mistargeted, Bullshit SLAPP Suit Is No Way To...
Dating can be difficult, but there are certain things you can do to not make things worse on yourself. Don’t be a creep. Be kind. Take no for an answer. Actually listen to the people you date. I mean,...
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Peoria Police Put Out Recruiting Poster Telling Recruits To Come Play ‘Call...
Whatever your thoughts on policing in general in America, I would hope it would be largely uncontroversial to state that a huge percentage of Americans believe that police are generally...
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