The Hill reports: The Librarian of Congress on Tuesday clarified that researchers can tinker with software embedded in cars to investigate security flaws without running afoul of copyright law. The decision was handed down from the Copyright Office as part of a triennial review that exempts certain activity from the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DCMA), […]
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An overview, from Public Citizen's press release: Corporations and their lawyers are pushing the idea that consumers who were duped by misrepresentations into buying products or overpaying for products have suffered “no injury.” The new report (PDF), “The Fiction of the ‘No-Injury’ Class Action,” examines that claim, testing its validity as a matter of fact […]
by Paul Alan Levy The Washington Post reports this morning that Yelp has begun, on an experimental basis, to show a warning sign when a restaurant has been visited by local inspectors and received an especially low food safety score.
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Reuters reports: Eating processed meats like hot dogs, sausages and bacon can cause colorectal cancer in humans, and red meat is also a likely cause of the disease, World Health Organization (WHO) experts said. The review by WHO's International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), released on Monday, said additionally that there was some link […]
by Paul Alan Levy New Jersey resident Nadiya Oliver was deeply frustrated by her experience with an Illinois company called Fertility Bridges, which sells services connecting couples that are unable to conceive a child on their own with women who are ready to donate their eggs in return for financial assistance with the resulting burdens. […]
Read this op-ed on that topic by Marisa Bellack. Here's a short excerpt that gets at her theme: There was a 19th-century echo in the American Cancer Society’s announcement this past week of revised guidelines for breast cancer screening. Whereas anxiety was once a reason for aggressive medical intervention, it is now invoked to avoid intervention — an […]
The New York Times reports: In a federal lawsuit, a group of women are challenging industry guidelines that say it is “inappropriate” to pay a woman more than $10,000 for her eggs. The women say the $10,000 limit amounts to illegal price-fixing, and point out that there is no price restriction on the sale of human […]
The NYT points out that even a hike of a few percent on the ultra-rich could yield massive returns. For instance: If the tax increase were limited to just the 115,000 households in the top 0.1 percent, with an average income of $9.4 million, a 40 percent tax rate would produce $55 billion in extra […]
Although none of the A-list stars in the conversation are living paycheck to paycheck, Hollywood (led by Jennifer Lawrence, one of the highest paid actresses in the world, according to Forbes) is taking note of the differences between pay for men and women — and that it extends to high-paying as well as low-paying jobs. […]