More and more consumers use credit cards when paying for their items at the grocery or department store. These consumers probably do not realize that by using credit cards instead of cash, their personal information stores collect their personal information and could then sell the information to a third-party. A few of the largest data…

As the years past and we delve deeper into a society entranced with technology, we allow ourselves to become more susceptible to invasions of privacy by hackers. It is no secret that a number of organizations, such as Target, Jimmy Johns, and Sony, have had the unfortunate run in with security breaches by computer hackers….

Nowadays, identity theft involving credit cards has become a common theme in the news. In the past, thieves were able to obtain imprint of our credit cards from the carbon copies. Although some of the thieves are stealing our credit cards before we can even realize it, others are implementing novel ways to obtain our…

Online pre-settlement litigation funding, or more causally known as online “lawsuit lending,” is a persistent problem affecting litigation and the courts. These companies lend money primarily over the Internet and the ability of consumers, their attorneys, the courts, or even the government to have sufficient knowledge of what consumers are agreeing to when taking one…

With the recent Ebola outbreak in Africa and cases reaching the United States, individuals everywhere are concerned about catching the deadly disease. Doctors and nurses who were helping treat Ebola patients in Africa, returned to the United States for treatment after catching the deadly disease. Within days, people all over the world knew the individual’s…

We are in the next phase of the Internet.  Big data is an all-encompassing term for the collection of large and complex data sets that requires in-depth analyses.  The data is found in modes of sharing, storing, transfer, visualization, capture, curation, and even privacy violations.  It is apparent that individuals’ expectations of privacy on the…

Since the revelations of the vast NSA surveillance programs, following the information leaks by Edward Snowden in 2013, foreign nations have been focusing on efforts to limit the access that these surveillance programs have in their lands. Brazil is one of these nations that have taken drastic measures to insulate themselves, and their communications from…

Recently, the Guardian published an expose about the popular secret-sharing app, Whisper.  Whisper, launched in 2012, allows users post and view their most intimate secrets with complete anonymity . . . or, at least that’s what they claim.  If what the Guardian published is true, Whisper users are in for a surprise because their “whispers”…

Whenever Uber launches its service in a new and big city it often hosts a lavish launch party. However attendees were not too pleased with one of the features of Uber’s latest launch party. The company displayed on a screen what they call their “God View” which lets them see all of the Ubers in…

On September 30, 2014, Gov. Jerry Brown signed into law CA AB 1710, which expands data breach provisions already in place in California.  The new law provides for credit monitoring standards for those entities who offer it to their data breach victims, expands protections to include businesses that maintain personal information about California residents, and…