News & Commentary August 6, 2018 • by Quandary Peak Research California’s Sweeping New Privacy Laws California state legislators passed a sweeping digital privacy law at the end of June, giving consumers increased control over their online data. The legislation also gives internet users in the state greater insight into how their information is collected and spread by technology companies. The bill, which evolved from draft into law… Read More July 30, 2018 • by Quandary Peak Research Facebook’s Data-Sharing Partnerships and the Limits of Privacy Protections Our world runs increasingly on data. Concurrent with the rise of tools developed to analyze and glean insights from massive reams of information is the ascendance of data as a kind of currency—an aggregation of potential insights to help companies sell products, services, and more. Tech giants like Amazon, Google, Apple, and… Read More July 3, 2018 • by Quandary Peak Research Europe’s New Privacy Laws Mean Field Day for Lawyers and Activists The European Union’s new data-protection rules are officially in effect. The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is the world’s most stringent set of regulations to protect internet users’ online data, and its effects are reverberating far beyond Europe. In this post we examine the details of the GDPR, the circumstances that led… Read More June 19, 2018 • by Quandary Peak Research Europe’s Regulator Extraordinaire: Margrethe Vestager Data is currency for the biggest tech companies in the world. Apple, Facebook, Google, and other giants have predicated extremely successful business models around harvesting and leveraging data from their users. But recent scandals involving misuse of data have caught the public’s attention, leading to questions about how user information is collected… Read More June 7, 2018 • by Quandary Peak Research ICOs, Securities, and the Threat of Fraud Cryptocurrency is having a powerful moment. Once a niche concern, digital currencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum are now known quantities even among casual investors and news readers. Skyrocketing values, the hallmark of 2017’s crypto boom, made for great headlines as pundits declared that digital currencies were here to stay. But mainstream recognition… Read More June 4, 2018 • by Quandary Peak Research Russian LinkedIn Hacker Faces Charges in the U.S. A Russian man accused of hacking numerous American companies was extradited from the Czech Republic to the United States in March 2018. Yevgeniy Nikulin, who allegedly hacked LinkedIn, Dropbox, and Formspring in 2012, used employee credentials for improper activity and also conspired to illegally sell the obtained data. Mr. Nikulin is facing… Read More May 17, 2018 • by Quandary Peak Research Shaping the Future of Antitrust Law: Time Warner and AT&T The US Justice Department and AT&T’s legal battle over the intended acquisition of Time Warner entered court in late March 2018. The trial is being presided over by Judge Richard Leon of the US District Court for the District of Columbia, and it has drawn interest from a myriad of experts from… Read More May 15, 2018 • by Quandary Peak Research Huawei and the Fight Over 5G Mobile phones, and the accompanying internet access they provide, have changed the nature of communication and how we transact in the global economy. The initial evolutionary waves in mobile came from the West, where Western countries owned the patents and developed the global standards of operation. Now, Chinese telecom giant Huawei wants… Read More May 12, 2018 • by Ali Khoshgozaran A Peek Into The Future of Autonomous Driving, Part 1 Future Self-Driving Cars of the Past– Advertising Archive, via Everett Collection In areas of science and technology where rapid disruption is prevalent, researchers and engineers are constantly surrounded by several challenges of varying degrees of urgency and complexity. In a continuous cycle, innovative solutions for solving these technological obstacles are found and… Read More March 13, 2018 • by Quandary Peak Research Appeals Court Rules on Twitter’s Role in “Material Support” of Terrorism An appeals court ruled in agreement with a lower court in January 2018 that Twitter was not liable for the deaths of two American military contractors, killed by a terrorist in Jordan in 2015. The ruling is the latest repudiation of the notion that social media services are willingly providing support to… Read More 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Next »
