Category: Know Your Rights

January 2, 2020

The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), enacted in 2018 and taking effect on January 1, 2020, gives consumers in California additional rights and protections regarding how businesses may use their personal information.1 The CCPA imposes many obligations on businesses that […]

January 2, 2020

The current Social Security system in the United States operates in a pay-as-you-go framework, which is administered by the federal government. Social Security taxes paid by today’s workers enter into the general fund and are immediately used to pay current […]

October 8, 2019

Ecommerce business insurance is a collection of commercial policies designed to protect you and your ecommerce business. A common policy for ecommerce business owners is cyber liability insurance, which covers losses or damages resulting from cyberattacks and data breaches. Most […]

October 1, 2019

Texas real estate license renewal is required for every Texas agent every two years. As an active real estate salesperson or broker, you must complete at least 18 continuing education (CE) course hours and submit the appropriate documents by the […]

September 23, 2019

Earlier this month, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals at San Francisco took a stand for an open internet. A three-judge panel found that automated searching of a public website, also called web scraping, is not a violation of […]

August 9, 2019

A federal appeals court is allowing a group of users to sue Facebook on claims the social network collected their facial data without consent. On Thursday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit rejected Facebook’s efforts to dismiss […]

July 4, 2019

In a court filing released on Wednesday, Assistant Attorney General Jody Hunt indicated that the Department of Justice will explore new ways to ask whether responders to the 2020 census are citizens of the US. The Supreme Court ruled on […]

June 27, 2019

What did the Declaration of Independence do? Nonresidents who want to become U.S. citizens are expected to know. When the ABA recently posed the same question to a sample of U.S. adults, a correct answer wasn’t guaranteed. The proper response […]

April 10, 2019

For roughly 20 years the getting was good in Northern California. From the legalization of medical marijuana in 1996 to beginning the transition into adult-use sales in 2016, cannabis growers in the remote, northern forestland enjoyed an idyllic life, earning […]

March 29, 2019

The demands of starting your own business can be exciting, making new business owners want to be as hands-on as possible. However, overworking yourself can eventually lead to burnout, and will not help in getting a business off the ground. […]