PYMNTS

AUGUST 24, 2020

Facebook Supports Data-Portability Law. Facebook has advocated for a law that would simplify the process of moving videos and pictures to a competing site. The social media company has indicated that the Access Act, a proposed data portability law, is a first move in the right direction. The support comes before a planned Sept.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 1, 2020

15 percent of law firms have lost clients as a result of cybersecurity incidents , a new report published by BlueVoyant found, according to a press release. Among a lengthy list of attack methods, ransomware and third-party breaches remain common tactics against law firms, the report revealed. Taking into account the estimated 30.2

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 8, 2019

The key issue is Facebook’s “Tag Suggestions,” which let users tag friends in previously uploaded photos. She also cited the Illinois law, which was put into effect in 2008, as a piece of legislation that was meant to protect people’s “concrete interests in privacy.”

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PYMNTS

APRIL 17, 2018

The suit is based on a unique Illinois law — the Biometric Information Privacy Act — which gives users a “property interest” in the algorithms that establish their digital identities. That’s the date when Facebook launched “Tag Suggestions,” a feature that suggests people to tag after a user uploads a photo.

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JUNE 10, 2019

It’s mainly meant for law enforcement, although it has some consumer applications. The company said the peripheral is especially helpful for “law enforcement and security guards on patrol,” and that it can locate 15 faces per frame in under a second. The glasses don’t tag and store new faces.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

The suit alleged that Facebook broke an Illinois biometric privacy law. Photo tagging used to be a default feature, but now it is something users have to opt into. This isn’t the first time Facebook was questioned about using facial recognition. The class-action lawsuit will move forward despite Facebook’s efforts to halt it.

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PYMNTS

JULY 23, 2019

The FTC will also claim that Facebook didn’t tell about 30 million people that they could turn off a facial recognition tool that tagged people in photos. The FTC does not have supervision authority, but there are ways of creating an analog to that,” said David Vladeck, a Georgetown University law professor and former FTC official.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 26, 2019

Out-of-state retailers that sold into California, Louisiana and South Carolina are being asked to retroactively comply with remote seller laws, and pay taxes on sales conducted in the years before the laws were in place. There are more complexities in store for merchants, though. Find the full story in the Tracker.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 4, 2019

You just sort of tag on to an existing listing. Problem is that it’s illegal under antitrust law.”. “They wanted to know how Amazon works, how eBay works,” Bumstead explained. “I I went into describing how a listing works on Amazon. Amazon is interesting in that you don’t necessarily create a listing. That’s how Amazon did this.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 27, 2019

Laws enabling remote sales taxes mean retailers must now navigate each state’s policies, so they are no longer able to dodge compliance expenses and shield their consumers by lacking physical presences in states that tax these items. Sales taxes’ price tags. Greenberg said. “If

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

federal securities laws will not apply to the offer, sale and any resale of Jet Tokens,” Jet Token’s filing with the SEC reads. For the first time ever, the miner that produces responsibly is going to be able to tag their metal to advertise it to downstream buyers.”. That bank sells it to a wholesaler network down to a corporation.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 18, 2019

Speaking of changes to payments within the EU, merchants are about to confront a problem with a potential $100 billion price tag. However, while PSD2 and GDPR are crafting significant changes in the EU, many countries in the region have just implemented the data and payment laws. Solving for SCA’s $100-Billion-a-Year Problem.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

The Dubai International Financial Centre ratified the original version of its Data Protection Law (DPL) in 2007, for example — about a year earlier than Europe’s official General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and first Payment Services Directive (PSD) launches.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 24, 2016

The lawsuit, filed in California by law firm Geragos & Geragos, could potentially draw millions of other customers if the suit is granted class-action status.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 10, 2019

The New York Daily News reported last week that the city’s contract with source-to-pay technology firm Ivalua has seen its price tag increase from $30.5 “Government procurement is built on laws and statutes,” he noted. And it all must be done in compliance with the law.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 8, 2018

million price tag – was tied for first place with another Banksy piece that was sold in 2008. million price tag. One can prank capitalism, but it’s hard to beat some of its laws, particularly the one about supply and demand. The most popular theory is that it was triggered by a remote mechanism. Banksy’s real point?

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

The legislation most watched by SMBs, Paychex found, ranges from payroll card rules to paid leave laws and healthcare reform. 5), The Workforce Institute at Kronos published its latest research that aims to put a price tag on regulatory changes for the business community. Today (Tuesday, Sept.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 28, 2019

“While completely stopping such criminal activity is extremely difficult, several steps could be taken to mitigate the phenomenon, including monitoring the transfer of high-value goods in the game, identifying players with large stockpiles of V-bucks, and sharing data with relevant law enforcement agencies.”. Capital One’s Earnings Flub.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 6, 2020

No bridal boutiques, fittings or fights with one’s future mother-in-law required. “We It makes for entertaining television, Anomalie Co-founder and CEO Leslie Vorhees told PYMNTS in a recent conversation — but a guide to what it’s actually like for the average person to buy a wedding dress?

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

It’s as simple as adding a “sponsored content” tag on a blog post, an adequately transparent product plug by a YouTube celebrity or even a rapid-fire reading of the fine print — anything that informs the audience that what they’re consuming isn’t completely impartial. Disclosure of sponsored content isn’t difficult. million.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

Trying to get off on a technicality, and a weak one at that, Murgio claimed that bitcoin did not meet the definition of “funds” under federal law, which prohibits unlicensed money transmitting businesses. Amazon is set to become the eCommerce leader in India, and bitcoin companies are keen to tag along for the ride.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Or rather, “had” – Alpha Bay, the primary dark web marketplace and community, was shut down by law enforcement early last summer. Oh – it’s like a criminal version of LinkedIn. And Johnson claims it has 240,000 members. Still, those 240,000 people aren’t just going to close up shop.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Separately, Facebook has reportedly settled a lawsuit for violating laws in the state of Illinois tied to facial recognition technology, agreeing to pay a fine of $550 million. The Illinois law — on the books for more than a decade — sets parameters for the collection, use and storage of biometric information.

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CFO News Room

JANUARY 1, 2023

We have mixed messaging, lethally bad advice on airborne tranmission, confusing guidance, a broken website, with an inexplicable hash-tag to wrap it all up. More on Law 8271. However, the entire tweet is so sloppy and bad it’s hard to say, and in addition there’s no link. [4] 4] Great, back to “personal risk assessment.”. [5]

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DECEMBER 10, 2023

From Alfred Sloan at General Motors to Jack Welch at General Electric to Steve Jobs at Apple, there is a history of CEOs being tagged as superstars (and indispensable to the organizations that they head), in successful companies.

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PYMNTS

JULY 16, 2020

Apart from celebrities, Apple and Uber were also tagged in the hacking event that occurred Wednesday (July 15). Targeting consumers, a social engineering fraudster will impersonate law enforcement, a bank or the IRS demanding payment. And the forms these frauds appear in is varied.

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 23, 2023

Then suddenly in the ensuing weeks, you get tagged to be CEO. RITHOLTZ: You went to law school. And so, when I went to law school and went to the bar, I had every — every thought that I was just going to be a barrister and be another vocational professional in my family. That has to be a little bit of a surreal experience.

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 30, 2023

And how is it that you, what’s this car that’s in the parking lot, it’s got plates on it and a tag and it’s brand new. That’s a law firm, 20 people. The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success” by Deepak Chopra is something I read. Oh, you just do work with mathematics and intellectual activities.

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Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 25, 2023

He is the founder of MarketCounsel, which is one of the leading firms in that space, as well as the Hamburger Law Firm. And so — RITHOLTZ: So why law school? If you’re going to do it, go to law school. RITHOLTZ: She was looking for the answer “they all went to law school.” And I decided to go to law school.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

But banning deals also would shut off a common exit strategy that pushes entrepreneurs to make the leap from concept to corporation — selling to larger firms for what they hope is a hefty price tag. Temper Of The Times. The Ocasio-Cortez/Warren proposal is indicative of the temper of the times.

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Can I just tag along? 01:07:56 [Speaker Changed] So one other thing I have to ask about is you throw some shade at some of the big law firms, Sullivan and Cromwell and others. What could go wrong? And he did the deal. But I, I turned to Sam Bankman free at the end of it. Michael Lewis ] 00:03:18 And in fact, he was that fascinated.

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Bank of America decided they wanted to sell their branch in Lima, Peru, and the price tag was a million dollars. So it was a patriarch, former military guy, had the discussions at his house, not a law firm. I’ve always looked askance at Russia because there is no respect for private property, for contract rights, for rule of law.

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 2, 2023

And then within LVMH, I moved to Tag Heuer, which is a pure watch business — RITHOLTZ: Right. It was really kind of in the Tag Heuer timeline for me, career-wise, that I became aware of Ben and of Hodinkee. CLYMER: Tag Heuer. And Louis Vuitton has a watch business and division. So we were well aware of their impact.

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Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 2, 2024

I mean the corn laws, which were, you know, you had an aristocratic land owning class who passed the corn laws to keep the price of grain up. We just passed a law here that capped insulin for, I wanna say Medicaid recipients. Tag on top of that for healthcare. And of course you get that in Britain too. Oh, really?

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Barry Ritholtz

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

And we literally talk about during the show, I got a tag to present to the SEC, about their new single stock product. I mean, we have a lot of securities laws in this country, not because we’re obsessed with lawmaking, but because some bad stuff happened and we fixed it by making rules about it. Why don’t you speak to him?

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 16, 2023

RITHOLTZ: Read Sebastian Mallaby’s book on, on “The Power Law: Venture Capital” million dollar deals were literally done on a handshake. I can either just give it away for free, which, you know, I started the cash tag dollar sign… RITHOLTZ: Right. Hey, I’ll come by Monday for a check. Some days I’m like, wow.

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Partnerships, law firms, accounting firms go down the list. So we have a corporate rate and then we have a rate for LLCs or pass throughs and LLCs and pass throughs can be very large companies that are not corporates. We have some very, very large pass through companies in, 01:12:08 [Speaker Changed] In the United States.

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