Elizabeth Holmes, the founder of Theranos, is currently on trial and facing up to 20 years in prison for fraud. Holmes’ story has been pervasive in the media over the last several years, resulting in a book, a podcast, and an HBO documentary being made about her and the Theranos scandal. Holmes’ rise to fame, …
Last week, it was revealed that the LAPD used Dataminr, a social media surveillance company, to monitor the social media accounts of activists, protestors, and journalists during the Black Lives Matter protests following the murder of George Floyd. This discovery comes after several emails obtained through the California Public Records Act proved that Dataminr notified …
The National Association of Realtors has long maintained a strangle-hold upon the residential real estate market. It is the nation’s largest trade association for real estate professionals and consists of multiple listing services (MLS), local associations, and over 1.45 million real estate agents. However, this dominant presence is not without its challengers. Over the past …
This year, the European Union and the United States have taken steps to regulate artificial intelligence (AI) systems. The EU and US governments, however, have yet to correspond on the type of regulation required by AIs. EU leadership has bolstered passing “the first initiative, worldwide, that provides legal framework for Artificial Intelligence,” even though the …
Facebook and TikTok have both experienced considerable skepticism of whether individuals can trust the companies’ privacy and data protection practices. These concerns are in part due to the potential for government agencies to access the data the companies collect and store. The European Union and the United States have both attempted to address these issues …
Although the first legal conceptions of commercial privacy were identified in Samuel Warren and Louis Brandeis’s foundational 1890 article, The Right to Privacy, conceptually, privacy has existed since as early as 1127 as a natural concern when navigating between personal and commercial spheres of life. As an extension of contract and tort law, two common …
As the United States considers preemptive federal privacy law, the discussion can be enriched by a reassessment of the EU example as illustrated in a 2019 decision at the European Court of Justice. The General Data Protection Regulation that took effect in 2018 is often described as an important model for unifying and centralizing data …
In November of 2020, a known train enthusiast was elected to the Oval Office: President Joe Biden. With this leadership in mind, is the United States finally going to create a healthy and functioning passenger rail system? For years, passenger rail has declined in usage as other modes of transportation, mainly automobiles and airplanes, have …
For decades, law enforcement agencies across the country have relied on Facial Recognition Technology (“FRT”) to assist with investigations, though how the technology is employed is often concealed from the public and remains largely unknown. Compounding this transparency problem, recent research hasshown FRT displays a demonstrated bias against people of color, and disproportionately impacts them …
