Facebook has settled a lawsuit over facial recognition technology, agreeing to pay $550m (£419m) over accusations it had broken an Illinois state law regulating the use of biometric details. The settlement was…
By Erin Ayers, Advisen In an increasingly risky world, cyber incidents have risen to the top as the chief worry of businesses around the globe for the first time, edging out business…
It’s beloved and feared, ubiquitous and taboo, legal and illegal—all at the same time. I’m referring to the plant known as cannabis (AKA marijuana), the subject of significant controversy and uncertainty, especially…
A recent decision by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) on the March 2018 Uber crash that killed a pedestrian in Arizona split the blame among Uber, the company’s autonomous vehicle (AV),…
Answer: While there is no law that prohibits employers from mandating flu shots — and in some states, the law requires all healthcare workers to get flu shots — you should carefully determine if the…
Source: Los Angeles Times (CA) It’s been a long, painful road for the victims of some of California’s worst fires: the Camp fire of 2018, the Tubbs fire of 2017, the Butte…
With thousands of rural Californians losing their homeowners’ insurance because of wildfire risks, the state’s “insurer of last resort” sued its regulator Friday, seeking to block his order requiring the insurer to…
As New York lawmakers prepare legislation to regulate the state’s gig economy, one app company has pitched reclassifying workers who put in at least 25 hours a week as full-time employees. Workers…
Who: Publicly-traded corporations When: December 31, 2019 What: Former California Governor Brown signed legislation that by the end of December 2019, publicly held corporations must have at least 1 female board member….
WASHINGTON (AP) — California on Monday sued the nation’s biggest e-cigarette maker, alleging that Juul Labs deliberately marketed and sold its flavored nicotine products to teenagers. The lawsuit from California’s attorney general…