Fake VPN Services Pop-Up After Anti-Privacy Congressional Bill
Apr 06, 2017 07:12 am UTC| Technology Law
When Congress decided to pass a bill that would essentially remove the rights of Americans to have internet privacy, users scrambled to find a way to protect their online data. One of the most readily available options is...
How ethical is sexual assault research?
Apr 06, 2017 04:35 am UTC| Insights & Views Law
Thirty-nine Australian universities will now individually release the findings of a national research project on sexual assault and harassment on campus. The Respect. Now. Always. project, launched in February 2016, has...
New Bipartisan Privacy Bill Submitted In Congress, Not About The Internet
Apr 05, 2017 07:08 am UTC| Technology Law
It seems the current Conservative House of Congress is not all about crushing the privacy rights of Americans with a new bipartisan bill that was recently proposed. The bill is meant to ensure that smartphones of US...
The death penalty is getting more and more expensive. Is it worth it?
Apr 02, 2017 02:39 am UTC| Insights & Views Law
Recently, several states, including Nevada, have introduced bills that cite legal costs as one of the reasons for ending the death penalty. National trends show the death penalty is being sought and imposed less...
May's warning to EU over security has been called blackmail – but it's more likely a bluff
Apr 02, 2017 02:24 am UTC| Insights & Views Law
In her letter to Donald Tusk triggering Article 50 and formally registering the UKs intention to withdraw from the EU, Theresa May signalled that a failure to reach an agreement with the EU on trade could damage the UKs...
How the Great Repeal Bill could turn into a major government power grab
Apr 02, 2017 01:46 am UTC| Insights & Views Law
The next step in Britains departure from the EU is the UK governments white paper on what it is calling the Great Repeal Bill. This is the vehicle through which the UK will extricate itself from EU laws and create its own....
Follicle challenge: the Ben Cousins saga and reforms to drug testing
Apr 02, 2017 00:25 am UTC| Sports Law
As a footballer, Ben Cousins was one of the best of his generation. Among various accolades, he won the Brownlow Medal in 2005 and was part of the West Coast premiership team of 2006. But today Cousins is about to serve a...
Johannesburg in a time of darkness: Ivan Vladislavić’s new memoir reminds us of the city’s fragility
Economist Chris Richardson on an ‘ugly’ inflation result and the coming budget
Biden administration tells employers to stop shackling workers with ‘noncompete agreements’
Labour can afford to be far more ambitious with its economic policies – voters are on board
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects