Millions of people download and use “femtech,” or female technology, applications to track patterns in their reproductive health, including menstruation and fertility. The market for femtech apps is projected to experience rapid growth over the next decade. Despite the highly sensitive, intimate nature of data collected by femtech apps, U.S. privacy law leaves these apps …
Law enforcement across the United States is knocking on Google’s door with its use of reverse location search warrants (“RLSWs”). These warrants allow government officers to access locational data of every cellular device within a certain proximity and time range. RLSWs are an innovative technological tool that allow law enforcement to essentially work backward during …
As civil unrest flared across the United States following the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, videographers and photojournalists—both professional and amateur—found themselves targeted by police for arrests, beatings, and harassment. Increasingly, journalists on the scene of civil unrest rely on smartphones as their primary tool for gathering and disseminating news. The advent of …
Even though common law courts create and articulate the law within their decisions, surprisingly little is known about the quantitative readability levels of any single national apex court’s decisions, and even less is known about how any one apex court’s readability levels compare to those of other similar apex courts. This Article offers new data …
Over thirty years ago, the DNA of a black-footed ferret was placed in the San Diego Zoo Global’s Frozen Zoo. After decades of advancements in biotechnology, scientists recently used that same DNA to clone a black-footed ferret: the first clone of an endangered species native to the United States. Through a process called somatic cell …
The modern right to repair movement is a reactionary groundswell of consumer-rights advocacy, which opposes longexisting, monopolistic, and unfair market practices that have essentially been left unchecked in recent years. Specifically, the right to repair movement seeks to advance consumers’ ability to repair their purchased goods, ranging from consumer electronics to multi-million-dollar farm equipment, so …
Trademark law allows for everlasting protection of product designs. Owners of distinct designs can register their marks and maintain ownership of the elements of those designs. The sneaker industry’s biggest companies make use of this system to ensure that their sneaker designs remain unique and are not counterfeited or imitated in a way that reflects …
Cybersecurity law, both in statutory and case law, is primarily based on the premise that data breaches result exclusively in financial harms. Intuitively, legal scholarship has largely focused on financial harms to the exclusion of non-financial harms— emotional and mental—that also arise from data breaches. A critical mass of research in psychology, psychiatry, and internet …
