On Aug. 8, 2022, the Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) imposed economic sanctions on Tornado Cash, a popular cryptocurrency mixing service that allows customers to obscure the original source of virtual currency transactions by “mixing”
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Introduction
Starting from the first machine calculation, computers and the IT industry gain a huge impact on our civilization. Nowadays we can see how IT altered the way we communicate, entertain, work and create. It`s, even, hard to imagine how…
FTC Takes Aim at “Commercial Surveillance”
In an active week for federal regulators, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) joined the CFPB in announcing important initiatives that may change privacy and data security practices in major ways.
On August 11, the FTC released its Advanced Notice of…
In The Metaverse, Nobody Knows You’re Fat.
One of the things I love about setting up a FutureLawyer office in the metaverse is that I get to create myself (my avatar) any way I want. It is not photorealistic by any means; but, I get to choose…
How Changes in Legal Billing are Leading to Faster Payments [INFOGRAPHIC]
We don’t need to tell you that the legal industry has changed over the last few years — the once gradual switch to digital has become more rapid. While changes in the industry at large may not immediately impact the…
FTC Investigating BitMart After $200M Crypto Theft!
BankInfoSecurity.com reported that “The U.S. Federal Trade Commission is investigating the operators of a cryptocurrency platform that lost $200 million of investor funds in one of the biggest crypto cyberattacks of 2021.” The August 11, 2022 report entitled “FTC…
CenterCam – Eye Contact For Zoom Calls…Brilliant.
CenterCam – Zoom Video Cam On A Stick. I have a couple of high end video cameras that I use for Zoom calls. They cost upwards of $350 each, and they have gotten me through the Pandemic and beyond. However,…
Top RDOF Winners LTD Broadband and Starlink Denied Funding
The FCC has denied the long-form applications of LTD Broadband LLC (LTD) and SpaceX-owned Starlink (Starlink) for Rural Broadband Digital Fund (RDOF) support after concluding that “LTD and Starlink are not reasonably capable of complying with the Commission’s requirements.” After…