Food is a powerful drug. Big companies have pumped meals full of addictive substances that keep people hooked on unhealthy foods at the expense of their health. Modern scientific research has demonstrated that hyper-palatable foods have the same neurological effects as other addictive substances. Given that unbridled consumption of food can have serious health effects, food addiction is a dangerous illness. Despite these deleterious impacts, the...
Consumer Protection
A new specter is haunting job seekers in the post-COVID-19 economy: “ghost jobs,” which are job listings by real companies advertising positions that do not actually exist or for which there is no present intention to hire. Ghost jobs do not simply waste the time and money of job applicants. They also reflect a new evolution in the harvesting and misuse of sensitive personal data, which inflicts privacy wounds on individuals while breaching...
Platform manipulation is a growing phenomenon affecting billions of internet users globally. Malicious actors leverage the functions and features of online platforms to deceive users, secure financial gain, inflict material harms, and erode the public’s trust. Although social media companies benefit from a safe harbor for their content policies, no state or federal law clearly ascribes liability to platforms complicit in deception by their designs....