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Google Accounts to Kids May Harm Their Privacy Image

Google Accounts to Kids May Harm Their Privacy

Bradley S. Shear

Recently, multiple media outlets reported that Google plans to offer accounts for their wide array of services to children under 13 years of age. While the details regarding this alleged plan have not been publicized, it has already created a lot of concern with multiple privacy advocates.

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Product Safety and Recall in the U.S. and EU

Joseph G. Falcone & Howard Watson

This article considers the different approaches that lawmakers in the European Union and the United States have taken to ensuring the safety of consumer products put on the market in their jurisdictions.

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Data in the Cloud

Rebekah Mintzer

The cloud is everywhere, raining down apps and digital services on companies. The potential benefits are clear: more storage and portability of company information and customer data, as well as time and cost savings for management and employees.

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Loud and Clear: FinCEN Demands a Culture of Compliance

Daniel R. Alonso

The onslaught of civil and criminal enforcement actions against financial institutions for violating anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing laws has continued its brisk pace in the past few months, with enforcement of the AML provisions of the Bank Secrecy Act and the sanctions regulations administered by the Office of Foreign Assets Control showing no signs of slowing down.

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Efficient Review In a Time-Sensitive Government Investigation

Sanjay Manocha

Over the past 10 years, government investigations have become increasingly sophisticated in analyzing electronically stored information (ESI). Federal executive departments and agencies have made substantial investments in advanced analytical systems that help investigators and prosecutors filter voluminous amounts of incoming ESI. Respondents to Civil Investigative Demands (CIDs) must recognize that the information provided will be analyzed using these powerful tools.

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Cross-Border Cybercrime and the Cybersecurity Wars

Sue Reisinger

The Home Depot data breach may be the largest in the U.S. yet, affecting not only millions of customers in the U.S., but also shoppers at its 180 stores in Canada. Home Depot said customers who shopped at its U.S. and Canadian stores as far back as April were exposed, meaning the breach extended for more than four months including the busy summer season.

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FRCP Overhaul

Nicholas J. Wittner

Some 75 years after the adoption of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP), an overhaul is imminent and it will fundamentally affect product liability litigation practice.

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Bank Secrecy Act

Elkan Abramowitz & Jonathan Sack

When companies, especially financial institutions, and not individuals are charged with serious offenses, criticism is now common. Yet such criticism may be particularly unwarranted in the high-profile BSA prosecutions of recent years, where criminal liability rests on an institutional failure to maintain appropriate systems and controls.

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Off-Campus Student Housing

Mary-Pat Cormier & Jennifer Garner

Between 2009 and 2011, there were 23.2 million college students in the U.S. In 2013, the Census Bureau recorded that 25% resided off-campus. What does that mean for insurers of these properties?

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At the Intersection: Cutting Corners and the Question of Clarity

Pamela Woldow & Doug Richardson

Proponents of Legal Project Management (LPM), Legal Process Improvement (LPI) and other approaches for driving greater efficiency and value into legal service delivery get a lot of blow-back. One of the more common gripes we hear is that "LPM encourages corner-cutting." Is this true?

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