#CYBERBYTE: Bytes, Briefs, & Breaches

Episode 11 of What's the Legal? brings you acclaimed attorney, law professor, and sports journalist Michael McCann. McCann is the director of the Sports and Entertainment Law Institute at the University of New Hampshire School of Law. He is also a regular contributor to Sportico, on sports-related legal issues. How did Michael get immersed in the world of sports law and media? Recently transitioning from Sports Illustrated to Sportico, McCann speaks on his new gig. With recent Name, Image, Likeness (NIL) legislation in the works, what legal impact does it have on collegiate athletes?

Episode 10 of What's the Legal? with Andrew Rossow brings you Federico Simonetti, Chief Technology Officer at Extenua Inc., an award-winning developer of enterprise security software that provides end-to-end data security for cloud and on-premise storage. Simonetti shares he and Extenua's 25+ years of expertise on the future of cloud computing. Extenua's customers include Fortune 500 companies, including, but not limited to IBM, Fujitsu, Boeing, Nokia, Sony, Toyota, US Bank, and Motorola. For more information on Extenua, please email info@extenua.com

Episode 9 of What's the Legal? with Andrew Rossow brings you Jason Harrow, a constitutional lawyer who argued the legal authority of Presidential electors before the U.S. Supreme Court.  We discussed the tumultuous 2020 U.S. Election between President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. What is the legal significance of the post-election legal cases the Trump Campaign continued to bring following the announcement of President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris.

In episode 8 of What's the Legal? with Andrew Rossow, we speak with attorney Raees Mohamed, founding partner at RM Warner Law, who represents clients in a variety of complex legal matters, including internet, corporate, regulatory, and technology law. We explore the following topics: (1) What is defamation law? (2) What is Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act? (3) Looking into the Johnny Depp/Amber Heard litigation (4) Hypo: Could a sitting U.S. President be held liable for defaming an entire country?

On the eve of the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election, our country needs more love for one another. And what better than to take a deep dive with attorney Adam Kemper of Greenspoon Marder, LLP into 'love contracts,' or legally enforceable workplace fraternization policies.  About Adam Kemper, Esq.: Adam D. Kemper focuses his practice in the area of labor and employment law. He is also a part of the Firm’s Cannabis and Blockchain groups. He counsels companies of all sizes on a variety of workplace and human resources issues including, but not limited to, interviewing, hiring, employee discipline and discharge, workplace discrimination, harassment, retaliation, wage and hour, whistleblower, unemployment, medical marijuana compliance, restrictive covenants, non-compete agreements, non-solicitation agreements, non-disclosure agreements, separation agreements, workplace policies, and employee handbooks. He also has extensive experience litigating employment-related disputes on behalf of both employees and employers. Mr. Kemper has litigated numerous cases from inception to trial. During law school, Mr. Kemper worked as an intern investigator of the United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

If you haven’t accepted the fact that you are not immune from exploitation and a data breach, then perhaps OurMine, the anonymous Saudi Arabian hacking group can help shed some light. OurMine, known for its 2016 series of notable breaches, including Twitter accounts belonging to Wikipedia’s Jimmy Wales, Pokemon Go creator John Hanke, Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, Google’s CEO Sundar Pichai, and even Mark Zuckerberg, is back again, this time targeting half the NFL, International Olympic Committee, and FC Barcelona.

With the global epidemic that is the Coronavirus (NCOV) which has now shut down part of China, how can the economy and humanitarian relief thrive when China has quarantined its use of bank notes?

They lurk in the shadows. They watch your every move. They wear different 'hats'. They have a new weapon that hasn't been fired. Yet. Meet the worst threat that is waiting for its next victim.  Black Hatters.

In Episode 3, we will explore today's new arms race: Artificial Intelligence. Hollywood has introduced us to this concept since as early as Arnold Schwarzenegger's Terminator and introduction of SkyNet. But with technology trade-shows such as CES, the emergence of A.I. and the effects it leaves upon consumers, forces us to accept a very stark truth: we all invest in privacy risks...it's just a matter of how much we are willing to accept when something goes wrong. 

On the second episode of Bytes, Briefs and Breaches, we start by exploring a new feature developed by TikTok's parent company ByteDance, along with a very important warning about abbreviating the year 2020 on documents. We also discuss a legal firestorm surrounding a major porn company along as well as a data breach inside of a home security business. 

As 2020 is finally here, so are the new legal laws we need to know about. We start by exploring the new CCPA law that has taken effect today, along with the recent TikTok ban by the U.S. Army, and the Wawa class-action lawsuit following the grocer’s data breach.