by JOLT | Dec 30, 2020 | Blog Posts
By Rebecca Pinsky Data use is an increasingly scrutinized practice. Terms like “data use,” “data privacy,” “analytics,” and “machine learning” can be obtuse to people without experience working with data. Understanding data doesn’t have to be difficult, though....
by JOLT | Dec 28, 2020 | Blog Posts
By Ian McDowell Even though modern social media companies such as Facebook, Twitter and others did not exist at the time of passage, the 1996 Communications Decency Act (and specifically, Section 230 of the Act) is properly considered a landmark law in the...
by JOLT | Dec 25, 2020 | Blog Posts
By Drew Apperson At what point does a rent contract overburden retailers in a shopping mall? What if there are only two shopping malls for the entire world? A trial set for mid-2021 may answer this question in the mobile-app context. It will immediately effect...
by JOLT | Dec 23, 2020 | Blog Posts
By Jeffrey A. Phaup In September of 2020 a Tampa Bay Times investigative report brought to light a policing operation in Pasco County Florida.[1] The county’s Sheriff’s Department had deployed mass monitoring, targeted intimidation, and harassment tactics...
by JOLT | Dec 21, 2020 | Blog Posts
By Anna Hargett Initial Congressional investigations of the Big Tech companies (Google, Facebook, Apple, and Amazon) started off as a bipartisan effort, with Democrats focusing on the antitrust issues and Republicans targeting bias concerns. [1] However, recent...
by JOLT | Dec 18, 2020 | Blog Posts
By Drew Apperson As of the president-elect’s November 7, 2020 victory speech, an estimated 159 million ballots had been counted, and the percentage of voter turnout among those eligible was predicted to be the highest in over a century.[1] But how does this...
