Personal Information Flo-wing out of Control

Personal Information Flo-wing out of Control

October 20, 2025

Personal Information Flo-wing out of Control

By: Lauren Scribner

In September, a nearly $60 million settlement was reached in Frasco, et al v. Flo Health, Inc., Meta Platforms, Inc., Google, LLC, and Flurry, Inc.  The case,[1] a class action filed in 2021, alleged inter alia that Flo Health Inc. (“Flo”), a popular women’s health tracking application estimated to have over 38 million monthly users, invaded the privacy of its users by sharing personal and sensitive fertility data with third parties without their consent. The class action was filed on the heels of a settlement with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) after allegations that despite millions of users trusting Flo “with intimate details of their reproductive health” under repeated assurances that it would “protect the information and keep it secret,”…

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New Laws for AI Developers: California’s Fork in the AI Regulatory Road

October 16, 2025

New Laws for AI Developers: California’s Fork in the AI Regulatory Road

By: Steven Hess

AI Regulation and The Transparency in Frontier Artificial Intelligence Act Artificial intelligence (“AI”) products have become an increasingly significant aspect of U.S. innovation, growth, and development.  Generative AI is being used to predict the structure of proteins and other biomolecules in pharmaceutical research,[1] to simulate wargames for the U.S. military,[2] and to drive an estimated hundreds of billions of dollars of growth in sectors from…

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Flirting with Disaster: Kid Glove Treatment of an Assassination Attempt Sets Damaging Example

October 6, 2025

Flirting with Disaster: Kid Glove Treatment of an Assassination Attempt Sets Damaging Example

By: James Trusty

On a crisp October afternoon while the media focused on P Diddy’s high-profile New York sentencing, a less conspicuous—but more consequential—hearing took place in another federal courthouse, not far from the nation’s capital. Nichola Roske was sentenced for the attempted assassination of at least one Supreme Court associate justice. On June 8, 2022, Roske flew across the country—California to Virginia—and then traveled by cab to…

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Domain Names and the First Amendment: The Latest Word

November 21, 2012

Domain Names and the First Amendment: The Latest Word

By: Ifrah Law

The intersection of domain names and the First Amendment is not new. Indeed, in the early days of the domain name system, courts considered the issue of whether a domain name registrar could prohibit the registration of domain names on the basis of content – for instance, domain names containing profanities. See Nat’l A-1 Advertising, Inc. v. Network Solutions, Inc., 121 F. Supp. 2d 156…

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China, Other Nations Need to Crack Down on Software Piracy

November 15, 2012

China, Other Nations Need to Crack Down on Software Piracy

By: Ifrah Law

Reuters recently quoted Tian Lipu, head of China’s State Intellectual Office, complaining about China’s reputation for rampant software piracy. According to Tian, “China is the world’s largest payer for patent rights, for trademark rights, for royalties, and one of the largest for buying real software . . . We pay the most. People rarely talk about this, but it really is a fact.” Tian’s protestations…

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DOJ Should Not Withhold Information From Defense in High-Profile Leak Case

November 5, 2012

DOJ Should Not Withhold Information From Defense in High-Profile Leak Case

By: Ifrah Law

Lawyers for Stephen Jin-Woo Kim, a former federal contractor employee accused of unlawfully disclosing sensitive information, recently filed a motion in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia criticizing the government’s withholding of information in the case and asking the court to order the government to produce the documents. The government should not be permitted to withhold this type of valuable, discoverable information…

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Judge Rakoff and the Emperor’s New Clothes

October 29, 2012

Judge Rakoff and the Emperor’s New Clothes

By: Ifrah Law

On October 24, 2012, U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff sentenced Rajat Gupta to 24 months after he was found guilty by a jury of one count of conspiracy and three counts of substantive securities fraud, in connection with providing material non-public information to convicted inside trader Raj Rajratnam. This two-year prison sentence was substantially below the applicable advisory range under the United States Sentencing Guidelines…

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Reid-Kyl Bill Would Legalize Online Poker at Federal Level

October 24, 2012

Reid-Kyl Bill Would Legalize Online Poker at Federal Level

By: Ifrah Law

A draft of the online poker bill that Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and Sen. Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) plan to introduce was released this week. The bill, known as the “Internet Gambling Prohibition, Poker Consumer Protection, and Strengthening UIGEA Act of 2012” would legalize online poker at the federal level, a step that became possible last December when the U.S. Department of Justice released an opinion…

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Personal Information Flo-wing out of Control

Personal Information Flo-wing out of Control
By: Lauren Scribner

New Laws for AI Developers: California’s Fork in the AI Regulatory Road

New Laws for AI Developers: California’s Fork in the AI Regulatory Road
By: Steven Hess

Flirting with Disaster: Kid Glove Treatment of an Assassination Attempt Sets Damaging Example

Flirting with Disaster: Kid Glove Treatment of an Assassination Attempt Sets Damaging Example
By: James Trusty

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