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Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, March 23, 2024

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Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, finance, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly complex and wide ranging ways technology is used to compromise and diminish our privacy and online security, often without our situational awareness.

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NY Appellate Court Reverses ZBA Determination That Short-Term Rentals Were Prohibited in the Single-Family Residence District–Law of the Land

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This post was authored by Amy Lavine, Esq. The Fourth Department held in Matter of Friedman v. Town of Dunkirk , 221 A.D.3d 1581 (4th Dept 11/17/23), that the petitioner’s use of her property as a short-term vacation rental was not per se prohibited under the town’s single-family zoning. As the court explained, the zoning board had determined that short-term rentals were not a permitted use in the single family residential district because it had concluded that a group of transient or temporary

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Review Law Democratized: A Blueprint For Solving The Justice Crisis

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Jerry Lawson rhetorically asks Is anyone in the country better qualified than Renee Knake Jefferson to write about access to justice? Professor of Law at the University of Houston, co-reporter for the ABA Commission on the Future of Legal Services, and designated by the American Bar Association as a “Legal Rebel,” she has long been a thought leader in the quest to make legal help available to all, regardless of resources.

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