Last week the American Hospital Association filed a lawsuit to help hospitals avoid disclosing often secret agreements with insurers -- their novel argument is that revealing pricing arrangements...
While pending legislation in Congress would protect patients rights to express truthful views on their medical treatment, the doctors who treat them can be prevented from commenting on the tools ...
http://usefularts.us/2016/08/10/ehr-epic-gag-order-doctors-object/
While this post touches on culture, freedom and offense - and of course dance music - its hero is buried in the story as I imagine he'd prefer. Ron Coleman's writing and good spirit has been an o...
http://usefularts.us/2016/01/08/slants-ron-coleman-win-trademark-appeal/
The gay rights protest site "Spreading Santorum" now eclipses the official Santorum campaign site on the major search engines. Its a text book case bad SEO decisions, and the power of offensive t...
http://usefularts.us/2012/02/15/rick-santorum-seo-google-bomb/
In just a few years I think geeks will look back to 2010 like hippies recall the bashes of the halcyon late sixties. Here are 5 things I think you'll miss about 2010 in 2015.
Life is metaphors, I live on them. And so does the law, when it comes to the digital world. Obama officials claim your online life is a "public accomodation" like a restroom (so it can be regulat...
http://usefularts.us/2011/01/09/cass-sunstein-free-speech-online/
Washington politicians are falling over each other to establish who can be the most bombastic about WikiLeaks. But is there a crime or ethical offense the website is guilty of?
http://usefularts.us/2010/12/03/is-wikileaks-ethical-criminal-or-an-immune-nuisance/
Do you remember conservative radio talk-show host Michael Savage? He sued a Muslim advocacy group for copyright infringement because it dared to quote what he said on the radio as part of an adve...
http://usefularts.us/2010/02/24/whdh-and-adm-make-bogus-dmca-claims/
This week the ACLU filed a lawsuit against the Boston Police Department for using “wiretapping” laws to prevent citizens from taking video footage of police arrests. Some would naively thin...
http://usefularts.us/2010/02/22/boston-record-arrest-wiretap/
Your Digital Papers, Please? Last week at the Davos World Economic Forum, Microsoft’s chief research and technology officer floated what to date has been an obviously bad idea: that Internet us...
http://usefularts.us/2010/02/17/online-surveillance-censorship/