Is it really “willing participants” if they’ve hid the extent of the damage from them?

This is simple physics. Your brain is floating in liquid inside your skull. When your skull stops moving, your brain keeps going and smacks into your skull. Do that enough times and you can develop neurological disorders due to brain damage.

It’s just too bad their views are generally unreasonable by virtue of the fact that they have a poor understanding of law, economics, taxation, regulation and basically everything inherent to governance.

You have to know the circuits. It was pointless for the EFF to bring this in the 9th Circuit. There was no way in hell the 9th Circuit was ever going to expand the 1st Amendment rights of corporations. Not going to happen.

Honestly, it’s things like this that make me question the EFF sometimes. ANY PRACTICING ATTORNEY would know that if you want to get a court to declare 1st Amendment rights for companies, you don’t go to a liberal circuit like the 9th Circuit. They will not do it because it will open the doors for more ridiculous 1st…

It wouldn’t be federal, it’d be state law. I’m licensed in NY, so I can only speak for NY, but if I had to bet, I’d bet CA’s law is very similar as NY and CA tend to have a lot of similar laws in regard to corporations.

Well... that’s not true. You can be sued as a director. But, the issue is, is it a “business decision” and did you breach your fiduciary duty? The Board absolutely has a fiduciary duty to the company and shareholders. They are forbidden from engaging in self-dealing and profiting off deals to the detriment of the…

Too true.

I read the source and it clearly is NOT how Lifehacker presented it. But, even still, what’s the option, let wrongful behavior continue to your own detriment? Besides, depending on how things are written, the directors/officers may have to provide legal fees if they lose.

Agreed, 100%. Yet, fairly active comment section. But, then again, this is just one more reason we suffer from rampant anti-intellectualism and willful ignorance in this country.

As a corporate attorney, that’s a patently foolish statement. So, if the directors and/or officers are misusing company funds, breaching their fiduciary duty, or any other action that amounts to a cognizable claim, shareholders shouldn’t sue the corporation to protect their investments and the corporation?

At the very least, why not provide an archive.org link to make sure they don’t get the clicks but readers can still the see the content?

Dude, I’m a corporate and tax attorney married to a physician. My life is filled with confidential information. Trust me, you’re fine. No one cares what’s on your phone.

No, none of those things are obvious. I have a relatively tech-conscious social circle, but I’ve never met anybody with internet-connected light switches.

The phone stays in my pocket, where its cameras, front and back, are kept covered by virtue of being in my pocket. The only time it’s not in my pocket is when it’s charging, and when it’s charging it’s in a folio case that covers the front camera, with the back camera sitting face-down on my nightstand.

Use case: Yelling out to turn on/off light, add something to grocery list, get weather, or anything similar when you don’t have your phone on you or your hands are full or you’re otherwise occupied.

You know there are microphones on your smartphone, right? It’s also tracking every piece of data coming through the phone and sending that data to each application that has been authorized as well as to whichever OEM and OS creator you’re using.

Do you own a smartphone? If the answer is yes, your premise is moot.

People living off of the government when they are fully capable of working should not be getting money for free.

No, I got the full force of your stupidity. I’m fairly certain you’re wholly incapable of subtlety.