The new Face App has gone viral. You've seen it on Facebook and it's all the craze right now. It has been giving people the power to change their facial expressions, looks, and now age for several years. But at the same time, people have been giving FaceApp the power to use their pictures — and names — for any purpose it wishes, for as long as it desires. More than 100,000 million people have downloaded the app from Google Play. And FaceApp is now the top-ranked app on the iOS App Store in … [Read more...]
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Legal commentary by John McGuire of McGuire Law Offices
Cops Gone Bad
Deputy Zachary Wester is a bad man who ruined innocent lives in Jackson County Florida. Last week, Wester, 26, was arrested by FDLE agents after an 11-month-long investigation into the drug-planting allegations, first brought to light by the Tallahassee Democrat. He was taken to the Wakulla County Jail and later bonded out after a judge set bail at $169,500. Wester, who was fired last September, was arrested Wednesday and charged with 52 counts of racketeering, false imprisonment, official … [Read more...]
Florida ER Doc Says He Sees More Patients Because of Distracted Driving than DUI
3,166 people died in the US in 2017 because of distracted driving. Distracted driving is supplanting DUI as the most hazardous road condition in the United States. An Orlando area emergency room doctor says he sees more patients in the ER than from DUI crashes. Trauma surgeon Dr. Andrew Skattam deals with the consequences of distracted driving in the Osceola County Regional Medical Center ER regularly. “We see everything from a minor injury, someone driving over someone’s foot, someone … [Read more...]
Those Who Cannot Remember the Past are Condemned to Repeat It
Those are the immortal words of philosopher George Santayana written in 1905. Winston Churchill would paraphrase those words in a speech he gave describing post World War II Europe. They are just as true today as they were in the days of Santayana and Churchill. The same could be said in the context of the Pasco Sheriff's Department. The present day Sheriff's Department and its Sheriff are not that different from the past when similar issues plagued the department. Here's an investigative … [Read more...]
Insurance Companies Control Your Healthcare not Doctors
Most people assume that choosing the right doctor is an important part of making sure you have good healthcare. They're wrong. Doctors don't make healthcare decisions. Your insurance company does. Let me give you an example: someone I know is diagnosed with stage 4 cancer and the doctor orders a PET scan to determine other sources of cancer. The insurance company restricts the PET scan to only one part of the body, effectively nullifying the doctor's plan to determine where the cancer has … [Read more...]
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