January 21, 2025
Benjamin Mishkin (LAW ’12) and Daniel Kilburn (LAW ’23) outline the recent amendment to the Commonwealth’s data breach notification law and the new obligations imposed on businesses that suffer a data breach involving Pennsylvania residents.
To the casual observer facial recognition technology (FRT) can seem like a gimmick, but FRT is a powerful instrument that presents both unique advantages and sobering drawbacks, raising questions that go to the foundation of privacy and freedom of expression. The facial recognition market is expected to reach $11.62B by 2026, and as the technology outpaces the law and catapults society into unexplored terrain, its benefits must be balanced against its impact on privacy, data protection, and other consumer concerns.
Financial technology (“fintech”) has become one of the most important inventions in today’s world. However, technology’s overall impact on our financial institutions is still unclear. Fintech has become an essential tool in the financial world, but we need to (i) identify and (ii) improve the potential uses of fintech for the financial systems of the future. The role of the federal government in this context is especially important, but complicated.
This is the first in what we hope will become a regular series of interviews with members of the Temple business law community about their work, the business law community, and business law practice generally. Jon Smollen directs Temple’s Center for Compliance and Ethics (CCE), and recently sat down with The 10-Q’s editors to talk
May 29, 2018 marked 50 years since the passage of the Truth in Lending Act. The law is considered one of the most important federal consumer protection laws, applies to the vast majority of consumer credit transactions, and is the subject of frequent amendment and regulatory interpretation. For the occasion, the American Bar Association convened