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Data Pollution, Omri Ben-Shahar

Public Law and Legal Theory Working Papers

Digital information is the fuel of the new economy. But like the old economy’s carbon fuel, it also pollutes. Harmful “data emissions” are leaked into the digital ecosystem, disrupting social institutions and public interests. This article develops a novel framework—data pollution—to rethink the harms the data economy creates and the way they have to be regulated. It argues that social intervention should focus on the external harms from collection and misuse of personal data. The article challenges the hegemony of the prevailing view—that the injuries from digital data enterprise are exclusively private. That view has led lawmakers to focus solely …

Regulating The “Too Big To Jail” Financial Institutions, Jerry W. Markham

Brooklyn Law Review

This article addresses the “too big to jail” regulatory model in which large banks pay hundreds of billions of dollars to settle multiple and duplicative regulatory charges brought by a horde of state, federal, and even foreign regulators. The banks pay those massive settlements in order to keep their banking charters and to obtain immunity from prosecution for senior executives. In turn, regulators benefit from the headlines these fines generate. Much criticism has been directed at these settlements because the banks are allowed to continue business as usual and no senior executives are jailed. Other critics contend that these settlements …

Public Employee Speech And Magarian’S Dynamic Diversity, Heidi Kitrosser

Articles

No abstract provided.

Fake News And Financial Markets: A 21st Century Twist On Market Manipulation, Bianca Petcu

American University Business Law Review

No abstract provided.

From The Dark Tower: Unbridled Civil Asset Forfeiture, Saleema Saleema Snow

Journal Articles

The Black Lives Matter movement reinforces that race dominates all aspects of the judicial system. Police officers are significantly more likely to stop African Americans than Whites. Even when a stop or arrest is unwarranted, law enforcement agencies can still profit from the property seized under the guise of forfeiture statutes. Various state and federal civil asset forfeiture statutes legitimize law enforcement seizing cash, homes, cars, and office equipment—all with nominal due process protections. Despite evidence of discriminatory police practices, the U.S. Supreme Court deems these forfeiture practices constitutional.

This article seeks to reignite the conversation about discriminatory policing and …

From Cfpb To Bcfp: A New Bureau Of Consumer Financial Protection, James Orescanin

Loyola Consumer Law Review

No abstract provided.

Application Of Synthetic Informative Minority Over-Sampling (Simo) Algorithm Leveraging Support Vector Machine (Svm) On Small Datasets With Class Imbalance, Akshatha Fakkeriah Kallappanamatt

Dissertations

Developing predictive models for classification problems considering imbalanced datasets is one of the basic difficulties in data mining and decision-analytics. A classifier’s performance will decline dramatically when applied to an imbalanced dataset. Standard classifiers such as logistic regression, Support Vector Machine (SVM) are appropriate for balanced training sets whereas provides suboptimal classification results when used on unbalanced dataset. Performance metric with prediction accuracy encourages a bias towards the majority class, while the rare instances remain unknown though the model contributes a high overall precision. There are chances where minority instances might be treated as noise and vice versa. (Haixiang et …

Battle Of The Bayou: Placing A Receiver In The Right Position During A Bankruptcy Proceeding, Antonio M. Dinizo Jr.

St. Thomas Law Review

Investment Manager, Sam Israel, launched the Bayou Group LLC, a hedge fund, hoping to produce large returns for high net worth investors. After months of losses, it became clear to Israel that Bayou would never garner the types of returns he had promised investors. Instead of altering strategies or closing Bayou, Israel decided to convert Bayou into a Ponzi scheme. When Ponzi schemes fail, they present unique challenges for courts, regulators, creditors, and interested parties. One choice stakeholders will have to make is whether to appoint a receiver to marshal assets and seek a recovery for defrauded investors and creditors, …

An Empirical Assessment Of Senior Citizens’ Cybersecurity Awareness, Computer Self-Efficacy, Perceived Risk Of Identity Theft, Attitude, And Motivation To Acquire Cybersecurity Skills, Carlene G. Blackwood-Brown

CCAC Theses and Dissertations

Cyber-attacks on Internet users have caused billions of dollars in losses annually. Cybercriminals launch attacks via threat vectors such as unsecured wireless networks and phishing attacks on Internet users who are usually not aware of such attacks. Senior citizens are one of the most vulnerable groups who are prone to cyber-attacks, and this is largely due to their limited cybersecurity awareness and skills. Within the last decade, there has been a significant increase in Internet usage among senior citizens. It was documented that senior citizens had the greatest rate of increase in Internet usage over all the other age groups …

An Efficient System For Subgraph Discovery, Aparna Joshi

Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)

Subgraph discovery in a single data graph---finding subsets of vertices and edges satisfying a user-specified criteria---is an essential and general graph analytics operation with a wide spectrum of applications. Depending on the criteria, subgraphs of interest may correspond to cliques of friends in social networks, interconnected entities in RDF data, or frequent patterns in protein interaction networks to name a few. Existing systems usually examine a large number of subgraphs while employing many computers and often produce an enormous result set of subgraphs. How can we enable fast discovery of only the most relevant subgraphs while minimizing the computational requirements?

Tsai Today (2018), Southern Methodist University, Dedman School Of Law, Tsai Center For Law, Science And Innovation

Tsai Today

No abstract provided.

Risk In Privacy Breach Determination: The Application Of Prospect Theory To Healthcare Privacy Officers, Amanda Walden

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

A significant concern in healthcare is that of patient privacy and how organizations protect against unauthorized access to protected health information. The federal government has responded by instituting policies and guidelines on requirements for protection. However, the policy language leaves areas open to interpretation by those following the guidelines. Reporting to the Office for Civil Rights and/or the patient can open an organization to risk of financial and possible criminal penalties. There is a risk of harm to their reputation which could impact patient visits and market share. Therefore, Privacy Officers might view risk in different ways and therefore handle …

The Efficacy Of A 6-Week Evidence-Based Support Group For Caregivers Of Dementia In A Primary Care Setting, Mona Shah

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

More than 16 million Americans provide unpaid care for those with Alzheimer's disease and other dementias. Extant literature has well documented the increased risk for physical, emotional, social and financial burden associated with caregiving. While intensive support groups may be well-suited to caregiver needs, they are often difficult to implement given financial, personnel and resource constraints. Thus, the purpose of this study is to examine the efficacy of a theoretically-based, 6-week caregiver support group in a community primary care setting. The group focuses on self-care, behavior management techniques and interdisciplinary caregiver resources. A total of 22 participants completed the active …

Financial Regulation: The Apotheosis Of The Administrative State, The Federalist Society

Connecticut Insurance Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Managing Cumulative Risk, Lauren R. Roth

Mitchell Hamline Law Review

No abstract provided.

Early Detection And Prevention Of Corporate Financial Fraud, Marcia Schillermann

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

The economic cost of financial statement fraud continues to be a problem for organizations and society. The research problem addressed in this study was the limited risk management strategies available for the early detection and prevention of financial statement fraud by corporate managers and auditors. These strategies are important to the proactive prevention of fraud. This study is important to future trustworthiness of financial statements. The purpose of this qualitative, multiple-case study was to explore current early detection and prevention methods in financial statement fraud using a risk management conceptual framework. The research question focused on current fraud detection and …

Korea Deposit Insurance Corporation Annual Report 2018, Korea Deposit Insurance Corporation (Kdic)

Documents

No abstract provided.

Atrocities By Corporate Actors: A Historical Perspective, Michael J. Kelly

Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law

The article focuses on developments in international criminal law in addressing corporate human rights violations.

Motives For Financial Statement Fraud And Professional Ethics, Marek Sylwestrzak, Anna Białek-Jaworska, Krzysztof Opolski

Studia i Materiały Wydział Zarządzania Uniwersytet Warszawski

This paper aims to present the motives of financial statement fraud and the impact of professional ethics on the detection and prevention of this phenomenon in business. We present the main reasons for data manipulation by management staff. The importance of professional ethics in detecting financial fraud is also described. Particular attention is paid to the factors that are most important in detecting this phenomenon. In the article, attention has been paid to the influence of whistleblowers and the role of qualitative indicators of earnings on the disclosure of the discussed procedure.

Automation Of Authorisation Vulnerability Detection In Authenticated Web Applications, Niall Caffrey

Dissertations

In the beginning the World Wide Web, also known as the Internet, consisted mainly of websites. These were essentially information depositories containing static pages, with the flow of information mostly one directional, from the server to the user’s browser. Most of these websites didn’t authenticate users, instead, each user was treated the same, and presented with the same information. A malicious party that gained access to the web server hosting these websites would usually not gain access to confidential information as most of the information on the web server would already be accessible to the public. Instead, the malicious party …

Free Speech And Domain Allocation: A Suggested Framework For Analyzing The Constitutionality Of Prohibition Of Lies, James Weinstein

Oklahoma Law Review

No abstract provided.

Forty Years After Enactment, Is The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Necessary Legislation Or Global Overreach, Christopher J. Schlauch

Suffolk Journal of Trial and Appellate Advocacy

No abstract provided.

An Analysis Of The Sec’S Prosecution Of Financial And Accounting Related Fraud, Heather Robinson

USF St. Petersburg campus Honors Program Theses (Undergraduate)

This paper examines the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) penalties of specifically accounting and financial related frauds. The paper analyzes whether the punishments imposed on companies and individuals appear to be harsh enough compared to the crimes committed. The following topics are analyzed: the SEC’s policy of “neither admit nor deny”, accountants’ suspensions, and disgorgement and civil penalties. The discussion includes information on the SEC’s current and proposed rules and procedures regarding these topics. A small sample of data was gathered on individuals and companies related to fraud cases from the SEC’s Accounting and Auditing Enforcement Releases (AAER) database and …

Corporate Compliance That Advances Racial Diversity And Justice And Why Business Deregulation Does Not Matter, Cheryl L. Wade

Faculty Publications

This Essay considers the problem of racial harassment and discrimination in the aftermath of the recent and more thorough discussion about gender inequality. It begins by explaining the inadequacies of the SEC Board Diversity Rules and Section 342. It then describes the reasons why, despite these inadequacies, more regulation relating to discrimination and diversity is not needed. Finally, it discusses how to improve U.S. businesses’ compliance with existing antidiscrimination law.

2018 Innovation Center For Law And Technology, New York Law School

NYLS Bulletins and Catalogs

No abstract provided.

Strategies To Combat Tenant Fraud In The Rental Housing Market, Dr. Gwendolyn B. Dawson

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Many business executives lack strategies to detect and eliminate tenant fraud in subsidized rental housing. The purpose of this multicase study was to explore strategies some business executives used to detect and eliminate tenant fraud in subsidized rental housing. The conceptual framework used to guide this study was the theory of planned behavior. Data were gathered using semistructured interviews with 6 purposively selected business executives of public housing authorities, supplemented with a review of policies and procedures that business executives used. Yin's 5-step analysis, which entails examining, categorizing, tabulating, creating a data display, and testing the data, guided the process …

Data Pollution, Omri Ben-Shahar

Coase-Sandor Institute for Law & Economics Research Paper Series

Digital information is the fuel of the new economy.But like the old economy’s carbon fuel, it also pollutes. Harmful “data emissions” are leaked into the digital ecosystem, disrupting social institutions and public interests. This article develops a novel framework—data pollution— to rethink the harms the data economy creates and the way they have to be regulated. It argues that social intervention should focus on the external harms from collection and misuse of personal data. The article challenges the hegemony of the prevailing view—that the injuries from digital data enterprise are exclusively private. That view has led lawmakers to focus solely …

Cost-Sensitive Deep Neural Network Ensemble For Class Imbalance Problem, Kruy Seng

Lingnan Theses (MPhil & PhD)

In data mining, classification is a task to build a model which classifies data into a given set of categories. Most classification algorithms assume the class distribution of data to be roughly balanced. In real-life applications such as direct marketing, fraud detection and churn prediction, class imbalance problem usually occurs. Class imbalance problem is referred to the issue that the number of examples belonging to a class is significantly greater than those of the others. When training a standard classifier with class imbalance data, the classifier is usually biased toward majority class. However, minority class is the class of interest …

Why Do Prosecutors Say Anything? The Case Of Corporate Crime, Samuel W. Buell

Faculty Scholarship

Criminal procedure law does not require prosecutors to speak outside of court. Professional regulations and norms discourage and sometimes prohibit prosecutors from doing so. Litigation often rewards strategic and tactical maintenance of the element of surprise. Institutional incentives encourage bureaucrats, especially those not bound by procedural requirements of administrative law, to decline to commit themselves to future action. In the always exceptional field of corporate crime, however, the Department of Justice and federal line prosecutors have developed practices of signaling and describing their exercise of discretion through detailed press releases, case filings, and policy documents. This contribution to a symposium …

The Necessity Of The Good Person Prosecutor, Jessica A. Roth

Articles

In a 2001 essay, Professor Abbe Smith asked the question whether a good person—i.e., a person who is committed to social justice—can be a good prosecutor. Although she acknowledged some hope that the answer to her question could be “yes,” Professor Smith concluded that the answer then was “no”—in part because she saw individual prosecutors generally as having very little discretion to “temper the harsh reality of the criminal justice system.” In this Online Symposium revisiting Professor Smith’s question seventeen years later, my answer to her question is “yes”—a good person can be a good prosecutor.