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Can phone numbers used for verification codes also be used for spam?
When a company asks for a phone number to send a verification code (example), are they allowed by law to also use that number for spam, or sell that number to another company? Or are there some laws ...
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Can I ask a company for money in exchange for info on a bug
Suppose one found information about a large organisations software, for example Apple Pay, about their payment system that could cause very bad legal trouble for them. This could be related to to the ...
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In a two-party consent state, can I record video only (no audio) in secret?
From what I understand, the two-party consent state was born from telephone call wiretapping.
Assume I am in a two-party consent state. To record audio and video, I need the other parties involved in ...
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In which US states are hush money payments illegal?
I was just reading something from the New Yorker magazine which stated:
“Paying hush money is not a crime under New York state law,” Mark
Pomerantz, a lawyer who worked in the D.A.’s office, wrote, ...
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A third-party turned over information about me to a party in a case that I am not involved in. What recourse do I have?
A civil lawsuit is going on that I am not a party to. The Plaintiff in that case issued a subpoena to a third-party company whose services I use. The third-party company contacted me and informed me ...
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Are private tutors such as princeton review/kaplan subject to FERPA non-disclosure laws (United States)?
Are private tutors such as princeton review/kaplan tutors subject to FERPA privacy (United States)?
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Is audio recording a promise made by another person legal in the US?
If a person made a promise to do or not to do something, and I'm telling the person that I'm audio recording his verbal promise (because I wanted to use this as evidence in court in case that person ...
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Is there some law that requires businesses to erase your financial information after a period of time?
So for context, during the year 2021 I had a gym membership with Vasa fitness. At the end of 2021, I cancelled the membership (properly, there was no charges after this for years). Now a few days ago, ...
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What are some reasonable requests, if someone doesn't want to be in a video of others vlog when walking on street, which shared online in California?
Let's say Bob is walking on the street and he notices that someone is doing vlog walking by, which holding a stick with Insta360 camera (captures everything around the cam).
What are some options for ...
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Do you need consent when taking a screenshot during a video conference?
In a state that has "all party consent" laws when it comes to recording conversations, does taking a screenshot during a video conference (e.g. Zoom, Google Meet, etc.) require consent from ...
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Who can check sperm donor history in California?
Let's say Tom was a sperm donor in college. Now he is getting married. Can anyone besides Tom (e.g. Tom's wife) has access to Tom's sperm donation history? Can offspring/family of offspring have ...
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Can the criminal records of a person who has died be expunged?
Suppose that someone was murdered in Arizona, but resided in California. Prior to their death, this person had been convicted of misdemeanors and felonies.
Can the executor of this deceased person's ...
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Bizarre boots-on-ground investigation by FBI: transparency and recourse
Alfred is one day contacted by a shopkeeper he befriended, who warned him that an FBI agent had visited his place of work inquiring about his presentation, behaviour etc. He is shortly then also ...
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US: Can a website with a contact form but no privacy policy get sued
I've seen business websites where the founders are literally lawyers, and their websites do not have a privacy policy. Their websites do have a contact form where users enter their email, message, ...
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What are the rights of the school to deny my use of my own laptop?
My school has district laptops for all the students. The laptops have recently been fitted with Classwize, a screen monitoring app which gives the teacher the ability to lock certain apps and/or ...
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