People’s Law Talk

Apple V FBI: A Battle Based in 1789

Apple Privacy With more than half of the US population using an Apple iPhone, the news of the battle about to play out between the mega tech company and the FBI is front and center.

The big question on everyone’s mind: can the government require Apple to decrypt the data of a terrorist suspect? The forthcoming battle and the answer to that question all circles back to the All Writs Act of 1789.

Listen in as Kevin King discusses the legal basis for the FBI’s request and how this battle is bringing privacy concerns to the forefront of public attention.

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A Very Safe and Happy Thanksgiving

It’s that time of year. Turkeys, families, football…Thanksgiving Day is almost here. This is supposed to be a day for us to enjoy our families and celebrate all we’ve been given.

Unfortunately, there are approximately 1400 house fires on Thanksgiving day every year. Why do household fires triple on this special day? How can you keep safe? Listen in as Kevin King discusses the risks that occur on Thanksgiving and what steps you can take to keep yourself, your loved ones, and your home out of the statistics book.

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History of Lobbyist

We’ve all heard the word “lobbyist.”

The definition of a lobbyist is a group or person that analyzes regulation/regulatory proposals, attends congressional hearings, and informs government official about various matters of proposed legislation.

What do lobbyist have to do with safety, specifically, your safety? Legislators cannot know everything. However smart they are, there is no way for them to know everything about every topic they must pass laws and regulations over. That’s where lobbyist come in. One part of a lobbyist’s job is to be there to help inform legislators on a variety of topics, including those laws concerning product designs and safety regulations.

So where did lobbyists come from, how are they regulated, and who is spending the most money to hire the more than ten thousand lobbyists registered in Washington D.C.?

Listen in as Kevin King, counselor from Cline, King & King, discusses the history of lobbyist. Talking with John Foster on WCIS 1010 AM in Columbus, IN, King explores where lobbying developed, lobbyist regulation, spending for lobbyist, and some murkiness that surrounds lobbyist in the political arena.

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Where is My Self-Driving Car?

Self Driving Car Back to the Future day has come and gone but we’re still waiting on some of the technologies we were supposed to see by now, at least according to Doc Brown. Where are our hover boards? How about those self-sizing jackets?

While neither of those are on our radars, one futuristic technology we’re seeing more of in the news lately is the autonomous, or self-driving, car. Sounds like a great idea, right? We can be like George Jetson and finally have someone do our driving for us. Less accidents and less traffic both sound like positive outcomes we might see from self-driving cars. So why aren’t they here yet?

Listen in as Kevin King, counselor from Cline, King & King, discusses just what we need to see before we see self-driving cars on a broad basis and what the timeline looks like. Talking with John Foster on WCIS 1010 AM in Columbus, IN, King reviews some subsystems we’ll see standard in today’s cars leading up to the self-driving cars including: Automatic Emergency Braking, Lane Departure Warnings, Pedestrian Detection Systems, and Vehicle-to-Vehicle Communication. He also discusses the need for Human Factor Analysis and requirements that we’ll see from National Highway Traffic Safety Administration on these futuristic cars.

Listen to the full audio and get all of the details of King’s discussion:

What do you think? What do we need to see in self-driving cars to keep ourselves safe?

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