Grace Obletz- Com Law

News Story:  Google Investigation  This past week, 48 states as well as D.C and Puerto Rico announced their investigation of Google advertising strategies. Along with those states, The Department of Justice, the Federal Trade Commission and Congress are also investigating Google. Google is the dominate company in the cyber world and controls most the internets advertisement. People are worried that the results they find on Google are only being shown because those companies paid google more to share their websites. The investigation will focus on whether or not Google is too dominate and controlling in the cyber world and if some of their tactics where legal (i.e forcing their apps onto smart phones and other devices). One potential solution/ outcome might result in Google Search having to become its own company-allowing for more room on the internet for competitors. Google is a true success story, and the company become so popular because of the hard work of its team. How...

The U.S Supreme Court is the highest level and most powerful justice system in our country. The system first began under the passage of the Judiciary Act in 1789, and became official in 1790 with its first formal assembly. The court system then moved to D.C in 1801, to be in the Capitol building. Once in D.C, John Marshel led the first official movement which dealt with a strike of an act of congress being unconstitutional. This case helped make the constitution more effective and fair. Being appointed to serve on the Supreme Court is a challenging but honorary job. In order to serve in the Supreme Court, the President of The United States must appoint the Judge. Although a President serves for 4-8 years, many judges stay in position longer than the President that appointed them. The average time served for a judge is 16 years, but many judges chose to stay longer. Today, 9 judges make up the Supreme Court. On average, they receive about 7,000 cases a year- including protest and a...

Facebook will soon block data gathering codes Facebook has recently announced  that they will soon be releasing a tool that allows the user to block the website from gathering data and information outside their page. The new tool is a code that blocks the "Facebook Pixel"- the setting that gathers the user's information. However, this new feature will only be available  in Spain, Ireland, and South Korea. Facebook did not share when it would take effect in the U.S. Although this will not  change the number of ads a user sees, it will block the "cookie" feature. Meaning if you are online shopping for jeans, you will be less likely to have an ad for jeans pop up on your timeline. I think that this will a great feature and will give us more privacy. It is little annoying/ creepy when things I have searched for pop up on my facebook page a day later. However, I am wondering as to why this feature will not be aviable in the U.S right away. Out of all places, I ...

My name is Grace Obletz I am from Buffalo, New York. I am a sophomore here at hpu, majoring in Strat Com. and still working on finding a minor. On campus, I am a member of Kappa Delta and On Point Magazine. Both of which allow a creative and fun outlet outside of my academics. Post Grad, I am not too sure what I would like to do. I hope to move to Boston and find a job that is fun and modern- not a typical 9-5 type of job. My passions include fashion, entertainment, social media and beauty/health, so hopefully with those interests I can find a job that I am passionate about.