The European Court of Justice ruled on Thursday that Hungary’s Law on the Transparency of Organisations Supported from Abroad (Transparency Law) infringed upon European Union (EU) law. In 2017, Hungary adopted a rule that organizations had to register with the Hungarian courts as “an organization in receipt of support from abroad” when donations sent to [...]
Facebook removed a series of President Trump’s campaign ads on Thursday, claiming it violated the company’s policy against organized hate. The ads included an inverted red triangle, a symbol that was used by Nazis to identify political prisoners in concentration camps. A Facebook spokesperson told CNN Business that “We removed these posts and ads for violating [...]
US senators on Tuesday introduced legislation that would reform the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) aircraft certification process. The bill, titled the Aircraft Safety and Reform Act of 2020, seeks to give the FAA more authority over the aircraft certification process. The proposed legislation is the first attempt at reform after the Boeing 737 MAX crashes [...]
The Supreme Court today issued a decision that the Trump administration’s rescission of DACA, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, was unlawful because it failed to explain adequately why it ended DACA. In an opinion by Chief Justice Roberts, the Court determined that the DACA rescission was arbitrary and capricious in violation of the Administrative Procedure [...]
The British Mathematician, Clive Humby once famously said, “Data is the new oil.” He used it as a metaphor to explain that data is a resource, just like oil, that is useless “unrefined,” but once it is “refined” (mined and analysed), it creates enormous value. A lot of information can be extracted from data just [...]
Everything will be tokenized and connected by a blockchain one day. -Fred Ehrsam With the rapid digitization, we saw a new technology called Blockchain quickly emerge. This peer-to-peer distributed ledger has provided a platform to create transactions that are safe, secure, and immutable. Blockchain gave rise to a concept called “smart contracts”, a major contributor [...]
The Ohio Supreme Court declared to a cheering nation that yes: lasers are for laymen. Hard to believe that the transom of Einstein’s 1917 mind would one day be the common man’s retro disco. Simple case; the trial court admitted evidence from a laser gun showing that a defendant was in fact, speeding. The court [...]
The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) announced on Thursday that more than one percent of the worlds population, nearly 80 million people, had been forcibly displaced by the end of last year according to the UNHCR’s global trend report. The UNHCR’s global trend report is an annual study whose goal is to track the [...]
The US Departments of Treasury and State announced Wednesday that the Trump administration was imposing new sanctions on individuals and entities supporting the Assad regime in Syria. These actions were taken both under the Caesar Act and Executive Orders 13894, 13582 and 13573. According to the press release, the sanctions are intended to “hold the murderous [...]
The DC Circuit Court of Appeals held on Tuesday that the Trump administration does not have the authority to compel drug companies to add the price of medicines to their television advertisements. The case overturned a rule published by that Department of Health and Human Services’ Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services that required “drug [...]
