1. What does the writer mean by Nikefication? By Uberization? Who are the stakeholders as these models of the corporation shift? Which stakeholders benefit and which are harmed?

1. What does the writer mean by Nikefication? By Uberization? Who are the stake-holders as these models of the corporation shift? Which stakeholders benefit and which are harmed?

2. What would have been the likely outcome had Dr. Pierce sued under this new law?

3. Research: By 2000, every state in the United States had adopted whistleblower protection statutes of some type. Locate one such law from your home state. Under what circumstances are whistleblowers protected? Are private sector as well as government employees covered? Does coverage under the statute exclude the possibility of suing in tort?

4. Judge Martini indicates that he was uncomfortable in the role of trying to fit the round peg of advanced digital technology into the square hole of a federal law enacted nearly 30 years earlier: "Most courts, including this one, would prefer that Congress update the statute to take into account the invention of the Internet." Why would a legislature be a better aspect of our legal system for this task?

5. In December 2015, Tashfeen and Syed Rizwan Farook shot and killed 14 people in San Bernardino, California. Both were killed in a gun battle with police, and an iPhone recovered from their car. In 2016, the government issued a court order demanding that Apple assist in de-encrypting the shooters' iPhone. Apple CEO Tim Cook refused, saying

6. We have great respect for the FBI, and we believe their intentions are good. Up to this point we have done every thing that is both within our power and within the law to help them. But now the US government has asked us for something we simply do not have, and something we consider too dangerous to create. They have asked us to build a backdoor to the iPhone.

7. What are the tensions in this debate? Would a utilitarian say that Apple should help the FBI? A deontologist?

8. review some privacy laws of Missouri. How do these laws protect your privacy? Do the laws cited in other states differ from your home state?