The Internet of Bad Things: Is It Smart to Have a Smart Home?
Almost sixty years ago, the children’s cartoon show The Jetsons envisioned a space-age future full of technological marvels: flying cars, a robot maid, talking appliances, push-button meals and other twenty-first century conveniences would make the world a much more exciting…
August 19, 2020
By Frank Azar
Protecting Yourself from Data Breaches and Identity Thieves
The amount of time Americans spend online — emailing, direct messaging, keeping up with social media, and simply surfing the Internet — keeps going up. According to the latest annual study by the Center for the Digital Future at USC…
December 17, 2019
By Frank Azar
Decipher the Announcement of the Massive Zynga Data Breach
If you played Words with Friends your personal information was compromised Gaming apps are meant to provide a relaxing, carefree escape for smartphone users, but a massive data breach at Zynga, developer of some of the most popular social games,…
October 04, 2019
By Frank Azar
Class Action Lawsuits Challenge High Overdraft Fees
American consumers are accustomed to forking over driblets of their hard-earned cash to the banks that handle their personal accounts, from ATM fees to surcharges for writing too many checks in a given month. But one of the most burdensome…
March 26, 2019
By Frank Azar
Whistleblower Cases: Exposing Fraud, Righting Wrongs
A few weeks ago the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced that it was paying substantial awards to two private individuals who had assisted the agency in a major enforcement action. One of the two received payment of $15 million;…
November 14, 2018
By Frank Azar