Enlarge / In April 2013, more than 120 people attended a rally in Boston to remember Aaron Swartz and call for reform of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. (credit: Getty Images | Boston Globe) The Supreme Court issued a ruling today that imposes a limit on what counts as a crime under the Computer […]
Enlarge / Supreme Court Justices, from left, Chief Justice John Roberts, Stephen Breyer, and Elena Kagan listen during then-President Trump’s State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, on Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2018. (credit: Getty Images | Bloomberg) A Supreme Court ruling yesterday killed the […]
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Enlarge / Exterior view of a Googleplex building, the corporate headquarters of Google and parent company Alphabet, May 2018. (credit: Getty Images | zphotos) The Supreme Court has sided with Google in its decade-long legal battle with Oracle over the copyright status of application programming interfaces. The ruling means that Google will not owe Oracle […]
Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images) A Supreme Court ruling today in favor of Facebook limits the reach of a 1991 US law that bans certain kinds of robocalls and texts. The court found that the anti-robocall law only applies to systems that have the ability to generate random or sequential phone numbers. Systems […]
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images / Aurich Lawson) Suing technology firms when they mess up is already hard, especially over privacy violations. Now, Facebook, Google, and the trade groups representing all the big tech firms are asking the Supreme Court to make it even harder for class actions to pursue cases against them. Facebook, Google, and […]
American Indians and Alaskan Native people have felt the burden of the COVID-19 virus disproportionately. The incidence of infections in native populations is about 3.5 times that of white populations, and the mortality rate is nearly double. Now, a group of Native American tribes are claiming that Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin failed to swiftly distribute […]
American Indian and Alaska Native people have felt the burden of the COVID-19 virus disproportionately. The incidence of infection in Native populations is about 3.5 times that of white populations, and the mortality rate is nearly double. Now, a group of Native American tribes are claiming that Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin failed to swiftly distribute […]
The Supreme Court on Tuesday refused Republicans’ last-gasp bidding to undo Pennsylvania’s certificate of President-elect Joe Biden’s {} in the battleground. The court with no remark refused to call to question the certification procedure in Pennsylvania. Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf currently has coached Biden’s {} over President Donald Trump along with the nation ’s 20 […]
Expand / Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Neil Gorsuch{} , also Stephen Breyer, directly, appeared skeptical of their government’s broad understanding of the CFAA. Justice Thomas, centre, looked more conducive to the government’s opinion. Chief Justice Roberts, abandoned, kept his cards near his chest. (charge: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg through Getty Images) Here is the way I explained […]