On December 22, 2023, President Biden signed into law the Foreign Extortion Prevention Act (FEPA) as part of the fiscal year 2024 National Defense Authorization Act. FEPA criminalizes demand-side ...

This article highlights how the Canvas/Instructure breach exposes the complex and treacherous legal landscape of ransomware payments, moving beyond the business ethics of negotiation to the potential ...

On December 22, 2023, President Biden signed the Foreign Extortion Prevention Act (FEPA), a new anti-bribery statute long considered as a likely accompaniment to the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of ...

Howard Master and Alberto Orozco discuss how shifts in U.S. foreign policy, particularly under the new administration, are amplifying the risk of extortion for global businesses. They address the ...

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"It is said that the law is always at least several years behind the technology. With respect to the application of a criminal statute the doctrine of lenity, among other established rules, acts as ...

When a local property manager in La Mesa received a letter in the mail asking if his rental office had a text-to-voice machine, he was confused. The 72-unit apartment complex he managed didn’t even ...