Author Archives: Arthur Che

Popular Mechanics has a nice recap this week on patent trolls and non-practicing entities. A recent study led by Boston University law professor James Bessen (Go Terriers!) found that organizations have lost half a trillion dollars from their bottom lines … Continue reading →

The Justice Department has released an internal memo from August 2010 detailing the data retention policies of the major telecom companies. The release came after a Freedom of Information claim from the ACLU. Wired has summarized the document nicely with … Continue reading →

This blog post is written by Arthur Che and Samuel Tokheim, and refers to this article from PC World (published September 8, 2011). Overview Earlier this month, the FTC proposed a settlement with the sellers of two smartphone applications, Acne Pwner and … Continue reading →