By: Lily Keene Biometric data is not protected under federal law. Therefore, data privacy regulation is left to state and local governments. Amazon Go stores first opened in 2018 and use what the company calls its “Just Walk Out Technology.” Shoppers scan a mobile app and are tracked using computer vision, sensor fusion, and deep… Read More Amazon Go Stores: Biometric Tracking Dystopia
By: Kendall Casey On March 14, 2023, the newest version of OpenAI passed the Uniform Bar Exam (“UBE”) with scores that would place it in the 90th percentile of test takers. This comes just two months after the previous version of the software attempted the bar exam in January, not answering particular portions and scoring… Read More GPT Passes the Uniform Bar Exam: What Does This Mean and How Does it Affect the Legal Profession?
By: Catherine E. Nicholson Staking is a way of earning rewards while holding onto certain cryptocurrencies in a wallet or other designated account for a specified period of time. When a user stakes their cryptocurrency, they contribute to the validation, security, and maintenance of the blockchain network in reward for their efforts. A user stakes… Read More Is Crypto Staking a Security?
By: Alexandra Evarts In the weeks after former President Donald Trump’s loss in the 2020 election, Fox News perpetuated the narrative that there was rampant voter fraud in the election. In particular, Fox News hosts spun this narrative around one culprit: Dominion Voting Systems (“Dominion”), a creator of election technology used in the 2020 election.… Read More Dominion Voting Systems’ Defamation Lawsuit Against Fox News Could Change the National Conversation Around Fake News and the First Amendment
By: Elliot Hangos This past month, Uber, Lyft, and other gig economy companies had a small victory as the California appeals court ruled that Proposition 22 (“Prop. 22”), a voter-approved law since 2020, should remain state law. Prop. 22 allows gig economy companies to continue to treat their workforce as independent contractors, instead of employees. … Read More Developments in California’s Proposition 22 and Implications for Gig Worker Pay Rights
By: Molly Codeanne Since the iPhone hit the market in 2007, Apple has had an unprecedented effect on the lives of countless individuals throughout the world. To date, there are upwards of 1.5 billion iPhone users worldwide. We all use App Store purchases whether it be to get our daily news, keep up with our… Read More App Store UK: A Bad Apple
By: Annabelle Hentz In the United States, copyright authorship may only be granted to works that are independently created by a human author and are sufficiently original. In a world where ever-changing technology continues to alter the scope of intellectual property and what works are inherently protected, artificial-intelligence-generated(“AI-generated”) images must be regulated. They must be… Read More Living Artists v. AI Generators: How to Avoid Non-Human Copyright Infringement
By: Kiara D. Benac A person’s childhood is precious. Whether a person would want to grow up in front of a camera for anyone to see, however, is a different story. California passed the Coogan Law in 1939 to protect professional child actors. The law’s name pays homage to a famous child actor who, upon turning twenty-one… Read More Family Channels & Child Exploitation: How Washington State’s Proposed Legislation Protects the Future of Child Influencers
By: Karlie Rubin The Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) has begun to crack down on online health companies regarding the selling of their clients’ private health information. The Health Breach Notification Rule (“HBNR”) was enacted to require vendors of personal health records to notify consumers (and sometimes the media) when they discover certain data breaches. The FTC… Read More GoodRx Has Been . . . BadRx
By: Katie LePage Wildfires, floods, droughts, ice storms, extreme temperatures, hurricanes, and rising sea levels – there is no doubt that the weather has been quite extreme and unpredictable as of late. These extreme widespread changes in weather patterns are a direct consequence of human-induced climate change, which will only be further amplified unless our… Read More Earth is a Ticking Time Bomb. . . But Can Technology Save Us?
By: Alex Crowley On Friday, March 10, Silicon Valley Bank (“SVB”) collapsed, creating the second largest bank failure in the history of the United States. This occurred due to a litany of factors that resulted in a massive run on SVB deposits. For years, SVB invested in long-term bonds while interest rates were close to… Read More On the Brink of Disaster: How Silicon Valley Bank’s Failure Impacts Clients and Shareholders
By: Jacob Hartzler Super Bowl 57 was record-breaking for sportsbooks. According to projections by the American Gaming Association, a record 50.4 million Americans wagered a total of $16 billion on football’s biggest stage. The keys to this development were the Supreme Court’s 2018 decision in Murphy v. National Collegiate Athletic Association, which granted states the… Read More The NFL Post Murphy: How the Legalization of Sports Gambling and the Advent of Mobile Sports Betting Fundamentally Changed Sports Media
By: Theodore Brothers In today’s marketplace, virtually everything is available to consumers via smartphone apps, ranging from rideshare services to laundry service to food delivery. The primary trade-off consumers are willing to make for this convenience is paying a little extra in delivery fees, but exactly how much is too much? The food delivery sector… Read More The Legal Fate of Hidden Service Fees
By: Hayden McGuire Over two years ago, the major game developer, Bungie, filed suit against Aimjunkies.com, requesting damages and injunctive relief, stopping Aimjunkies.com from selling cheats for Bungie’s popular game Destiny 2. Destiny 2 is a free-to-play online first-person-shooter that was released in 2017. It has maintained between 100,000 and 300,000 concurrent players since then,… Read More Fairness and Online Gaming: Bungie’s Successful Use of Copyright Laws Against Cheat Developers
By: Jack Gagner As technology develops and becomes increasingly intrusive at work, in homes, and online, state legislatures have taken an interest in regulating how private entities handle consumer data. Five states have enacted comprehensive consumer privacy laws since 2018, and 60 comprehensive consumer privacy bills were considered across 29 states in 2022 alone. In… Read More Black Horse and White Castle: Biometric Information Privacy Gets Major Boost in Illinois
By: Andrew Ciulla Apple’s virtual assistant, Siri, used to respond to users’ queries on where to hide a dead body with locations of swamps, reservoirs, metal foundries and dumps. These responses given by Siri were meant to be in jest. However, in 2012, a Florida man was found guilty of murdering his roommate, evidenced by… Read More From a Siri Joke to Reality: How Brian Walshe’s Internet Searches Are Being Legally Used Against Him
By: Erin Howlin The true-crime genre has grown exponentially. However, its increase in popularity has brought some challenges and concerns to the legal system. True crime podcasts have become very popular over the last ten years or so. Although they have helped re-open cold cases and get more information about a suspect, there are also… Read More The Truth About True Crime Podcasts
By: Douglas DeBettencourt The antitrust lawsuits are beginning to pile up against Google, which has led to many e-discovery problems surrounding Google’s chat deletion policy. Google has a policy in place that provides that their employees’ chats are to be deleted after twenty-four hours. Although Google may be forced to pay significant fines surrounding these… Read More Take It or Leave It: How Google’s Antitrust Lawsuit Could Serve as Guidance for Other Companies
By: Casey Reilly In November 2020, Covington & Burling suffered a Microsoft Exchange cyber-attack sponsored by Hafnium, a group of Chinese-sponsored threat actors. Hafnium is a highly sophisticated actor that exploited four vulnerabilities in the Microsoft Exchange email platform in order to steal data from U.S. contractors, infectious disease researchers, and law firms. Fast forward… Read More Is Attorney-Client Privilege Strong Enough to Uphold the SEC?
By: Aleksandra Conway Silina During the last G-20 meeting, member countries discussed the future of crypto. International Monetary Fund (“IMF”) Managing Director, Kristalina Georgieva, mentioned that “[w]e have to differentiate between central bank digital currencies that are backed by the state and stable coins, and crypto assets that are privately issued.” She also added that… Read More Will the International Monetary Fund Seek to Ban Crypto?