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Title VII states, “It shall be an unlawful employment practice for an employer . . . to print or publish . . . any notice or advertisement relating to employment . . . indicating any preference . . . based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.” This makes...

Swipe Right for Privacy

The mobile application market is flooded with dating apps: Tinder, OkCupid, Coffee Meets Bagel, Hinge, Bumble, and dozens more. They might make love happen, but they also risk more than just a bad date. The sheer amount of data these apps collect about users is...

Tighter Regulations, Less Competition

On August 31, 2018 the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress (“NPC”) passed new regulations governing China’s e-commerce market. The passage of the legislation comes at the end of more than five years of drafts and negotiations with input from the...

My Data Has Been Breached—Can I Sue?

Earlier this week, Facebook announced that 50 million user accounts had been compromised in a data breach. This is just the latest episode in a series of high profile and far-reaching data breaches in which consumers’ sensitive personal and financial information has...

Legislating Loot Boxes

How much is Darth Vader worth?  This question has, in a roundabout way, caused some legislators and regulators to look at how video games make their money.  The recently-released video game Star Wars Battlefront II originally had a profit model which locked large...