Boston Marathon Bombings: How to Send Help (and Avoid Scams)
It’s only human nature to want to help out victims of a disaster, but tragic events also bring scam artists out of the woodwork. In the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombings, an outpouring of support has prompted numerous charitable campaigns: some legitimate, others not. The Better Business Bureau says it’s already seeing charity scams and expects more to come. The BBB says social media is a favorite tool of scam artists today because it’s a good way to reach a lot of people quickly, and the willingness of people to take action makes it easy to prey on their emotions. Within hours of the attack, Domains.com says more than 125 Boston-related domain names were registered, including several with words like “relief” or “help” in the name. There were reports of at least one fake Twitter account (since shut down) and a warning about a link circulating via email claiming to be video footage of the bombing that really installs malware on the computers of people who click on ...
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United States: April 10 Deadline For Swap Reporting Postponed For Many Swaps Participants - Jones Day
Under Commodity Futures Trading Commission rules, nonregistered U.S. entities engaging in swaps activities faced a deadline of April 10, 2013 to report information with respect to all of their swaps to a "swap data repository", either by themselves reporting such information or by having their counterparties satisfy the reporting requirements.
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Canada: Can The Trustee Of An Incapable Adult Obtain Privileged Information Previously Received By The Latter? - Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
Doreen Wayne suffers from dementia. Her son William was appointed as committee (trustee) of her estate by the BC Supreme Court, and wanted to obtain the file related to her affairs from her lawyers.
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Canada: ‘Peripheral’ Administrative Information About Lawyer’s File Presumptively Privileged - Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
Morris Kaiser’s trustee in bankruptcy, Soberman Inc., thought it smelled a rat: while claiming to be impecunious, Kaiser appeared to be living a life of ‘some means’, which included trips to casinos in the US.
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Canada: B.C. Privacy Commissioner Finds Engine Monitoring Technology Reasonable - Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP
A pair of decisions, one applicable to private-sector organizations and one applicable to the public sector, that effectively authorize employers to use global positioning systems and other technologies to remotely monitor their employees have been released by the Office of the Information & Privacy Commissioner for British Columbia.
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