Why scraping publicly available information online isn’t a crime

BY Jason Tashea Earlier this month, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals at San Francisco took a stand for an open internet. A three-judge panel found that automated searching of a public website, also called web scraping, is not a violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, the country’s main anti-hacking law. At issue was…

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How to prepare yourself and your clients to respond to data breaches

BY James M. Davis AND Bradley H. Dlatt Data breaches are everywhere, and they are expensive. In the first six months of 2019, there were more than 3,800 reported data breaches—a 54% increase from the same period last year—exposing more than 4.1 billion records. The average reported cost of a data breach for an American…

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Opinion

Sex, Food and Dating—The (Other) News This Week

I know I should be poring over that whistleblower's complaint. But instead, let me give you something that's much more invigorating: news and gossip you definitely do not need. By Vivia Chen I don’t know about you, but I am at a saturation point with news about our Dear Leader and his dealings…

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News

Melinda Gates: Here’s Why I’m Committing $1 Billion to Promote Gender Equality

By Melinda Gates In 2018, there were more men named James running Fortune 500 companies than there were women. This year, only one CEO on that list of 500 is a woman of color. Women are 51 percent of the population but hold only 24 percent of the seats in Congress. My reaction to facts like these is a…

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Features

The first black Professor honoured with a portrait at St. Peter’s College, Oxford University is a Nigerian

UK-based Nigerian professor of public international law, Dapo Akande has been honoured with a portrait at St Peter’s College, Oxford University. Akande will be the first black professor to stand gallantly in the halls of the college located in the prestigious and current world’s number University The 46-year-old educator has spent most of his adult…

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The Nigerian professor who heads a US hospital and institute

Philip O. Ozuah, a Nigerian by birth, is one of the very recognised doctors in the US and as well an academic- Ozuah got his first degree in medicine from University of Ibadan before he went to South California to bag his Masters- The Nigerian doctor has gotten many awards for his exceptional services, one…

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Meet the Nigerian neurosurgeon who risks his life to jet home every month from US to perform free surgery

Neurosurgeons are known as skilled operators. But straddling surgeries across two continents? That’s a different skill entirely. Dr. Olawale Sulaiman, 41, is a professor of neurosurgery and spinal surgery and chairman for the neurosurgery department and back and spine center at the Ochsner Neuroscience Institute in New Orleans. He lives in Louisiana, but splits his…

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Shuping Wang, whistleblower doctor who exposed HIV scandal in China and saved thousands of lives, dies

A whistleblower who exposed HIV and hepatitis epidemics in central China in the 1990s, potentially saving tens of thousands of lives, has died aged 59. Dr. Shuping Wang lost her job, was attacked, and had her clinic vandalised after she spoke out. She died in Utah in the US, where she moved after the scandal.…

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TIPS

List Of Agreements And Transactions That Are Invalid If Handled By A None Lawyer In Nigeria

Daily Law Tips (Tip 428) by Onyekachi Umah, Esq., LLM. ACIArb(UK) Some agreements and transactions in Nigeria cannot be completed without the input of a lawyer. Even after such transactions or agreements are completed they are invalid, null, void and waste for the single reason that they were not handled/managed by a lawyer. And…

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FIDA, Awomolo, insist violence against Women and hildren must stop

Condemnations continue to rise against the spate of violence against women and children in Africa and Nigeria as the International Federation of Women Lawyers (FIDA) on Wednesday restated its stance that perpetrators must be punished. Speaking ahead of their upcoming Africa Regional Congress, in Abuja, Chief Mrs. Victoria Awomolo, SAN, Regional Vice President…

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