Zipwhip Business Texting for Your Firm SEATTLE, February 7, 2018 — Zipwhip Texting is excited to be exhibiting at ABA TECHSHOW in Chicago March 7-10, 2018. Zipwhip will demonstrate how law firms are utilizing texting through their existing business phone numbers to bolster their communication with...
The absence of programs to deradicalize people convicted on terrorism charges risks the spread of extremist ideas to other inmates in U.S. prisons and beyond, warns a study by the Program on Extremism at George Washington University, the Wall Street Journal reports. “The U.S. lags...
An old police academy in New York City’s Gramercy Park has become the city’s newest Apple store, one that serves an exclusive group of customers. There are no glass walls and brightly lit tables with the company’s latest products on display to be found. There’s...
As hundreds of millions of Chinese begin traveling for the Lunar New Year holiday, police are showing off an addition to their crowd-surveillance toolbox: mobile facial-recognition units mounted on eyeglasses, the Wall Street Journal reports. China is a global leader in cutting-edge surveillance technologies based...
San Francisco is on track to open its first two safe injection sites this July, a milestone that will likely make the city the first in the U.S. to embrace the controversial model of allowing drug users to shoot up under supervision, the San Francisco...
Recent trends show that more and more consumers are using their mobile devices to conduct financial transactions. The online statistics portal, Statista reports that, globally, online mobile payment revenue is expected to surpass one trillion U.S. dollars in 2019. With the increase in consumers using...
On consecutive days last month, both the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) made clear that delays in reporting potential product hazards or defects could significantly damage a company’s reputation and bottom line. The message from these agencies...
Jennifer Daskal is an associate professor of law at American University Washington College of Law. With more than 30 amicus briefs filed in the Microsoft Ireland case – including from members of Congress, the European Commission, the Chamber of Commerce, privacy advocates and dozens of media...
In New York City, marijuana and other drug-related arrests significantly decreased in 2016, but young African-American men and Hispanics are still arrested at much higher rates than their white counterparts, according to a report by the Misdemeanor Justice Project at John Jay College of Criminal...
New York State representatives are pursuing legislation that further targets a disenfranchised population with few resources to succeed after prison. That’s incomprehensible. Sen. Kenneth P. Lavalle (R-NY) this week proposed a bill to reverse a State University of New York (SUNY) “Ban the Box” initiative enacted in...