POSTED BY Michael Yacubian Anyone remember that movie where Tom Cruise saves the world from the overbearing police state? No, not Cocktail. I’m talking about Minority Report, the one where he stops future crimes from happening by using “precognition”. Well, potential human psychic abilities aside, in the movie, after The Cruise ends up on the… Read More Use of Facial Recognition Software Raises Privacy Concerns
POSTED BY Lloyd Chebaclo 23andMe, the direct-to-consumer genetic testing service, is partly on hold after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) sent it a warning letter for marketing its Saliva Collection Kit and Personal Genome Service (PGS) “without marketing clearance or approval in violation of the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act (the FD&C… Read More FDA Cordially Invites 23andMe to Bring Health Claims Up to Code
POSTED BY Rebecca Rubin Internet users are well-attuned to the prevalence of SPAM emails in their Inboxes. But really, some SPAM we assume is just clogging our Inboxes is merely an empty shell for a highly-intrusive hacking technique: phishing. Phishing is the reason SPAM emails can be so dangerous, and is the means employed to… Read More Gone “Phishing”
POSTED BY Edwin Batista On Friday, October 25, 2013 the Justice Department gave notice that it was going to use information obtained from acquisition of foreign intelligence information authorized under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act against suspected terrorist Jamshid Muhtorov. Muhtorov was charged with providing material support to the Islamic Jihad Union, a known foreign… Read More The Justice Department Attempts to Increase its Ability to Introduce Warrantless
BY Michael Yacubian Anyone who has conducted research within the last 10 years knows the invaluable resource that Google can provide in finding source material. All one needs is a topic and a few keywords and the information is a click away. One of Google’s distinctive features that separates it from other search engines is… Read More Google Books and Fair Use – Balancing Authors Rights with Innovation
POSTED BY Stephanie Surette Last week, a California woman received a ticket for wearing Google Glass while driving. Google Glass is a wearable computer that looks like a pair of eyeglasses and the device’s display is above the wearer’s right eye. The driver was originally pulled over for speeding but she ended up with a… Read More Driving with Google Glass
POSTED BY Veronica LaClair on October 18, 2013 It is no surprise to learn that every year within the United States and across the globe new technologies are created and integrated into the very fabric of society. From the development of computers in the 1950’s, to the explosive birth of Apple products within the last… Read More Technology in the Courtroom: At the Blink of an Eye?
POSTED BY Andrew Clark on October 18, 2013 Advancements in the field of reproductive technology, in particular the science of cloning, have exploded in the 21st century. With the development of new technology, comes the development of legal issues pertaining to these discoveries. On May 24, 2013, the United States District Court for the Northern… Read More Clones Creating Conflict: Should Cloned Horses be Treated Equally?
POSTED BY Marion Goodsell on October 4, 2013 The United States Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCen) has applied similar regulatory constraints to bitcoin as it has to other money-transferers such as Western Union. FinCen determined that users exchanging bitcoins are acting as money-transmitters and are subject to the Banking Security Act. FinCen has actively pursued… Read More Persistence Trumps Tech Savvy
POSTED BY Allison Kearns on October 4, 2013 The global interest in locating Eric Snowden appears to have waned. The importance of his revelations has not. As a direct result of Snowden’s disclosures regarding of the scope of the National Security Agency’s (NSA) spy programs, European Union (EU) countries are seeking to update a United Nations international… Read More The Global Response to the NSA’s Surveillance
Posted by Laury Lucien at 11:00 AM In an era where large quantities of interactions take place on the Internet, the scope of the protection provided by the First Amendment is often unclear. On September 18, 2013, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit extended the First Amendment protection of speech to… Read More "To Like or Not to Like" That Is No Longer the Question
Posted by Hillary Cheng at 11:00 AM The technology industry’s hottest issue right now is immigration reform. While heatedly discussed in previous years, immigration reform has taken a back seat for most people to issues such as gun control, the debt ceiling, and the Syrian intervention. However, immigration reform has been a longstanding gripe of… Read More The Tech Lobby for Immigration Reform