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Online Manipulation: Hidden Influences in a Digital World
Privacy and surveillance scholars increasingly worry that data collectors can use the information they gather about our behaviors, preferences, interests, incomes, and so on to manipulate us. Consider: investigative journalists recently discovered that Facebook allows advertisers to target vulnerable teenagers at moments when they feel “worthless” and “insecure.” “Sharing economy” firms like the ride-hailing company […]
The Global “Last Mile” Solution: High-Altitude Broadband Infrastructure
High-speed Internet access, otherwise known as broadband, is considered essential for partaking in the 21st-century economy; the Internet today is considered as important as road and energy infrastructure in terms of its potential to enhance socioeconomic development. Broadband, a subset of telecommunications infrastructure that includes wire-based and wireless communications networks, is currently a priority in […]
Health Data at Your Fingertips: Federal Regulatory Proposals for Consumer-Generated Mobile Health Data
Are you male or female? When were you born? How tall are you? How much do you weigh? You may have encountered these questions when signing up with a fitness mobile application (app) like MyFitnessPal. After you quickly provide this personal information, and consent to the app’s privacy terms and cross-border data transfer policy, the […]
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On January 23, 2020, the Georgetown Law Technology Review’s Gabriel Khoury interviewed James Gatto, a partner in the D.C. office of Sheppard Mullin. Gabriel visited James Gatto at his office to discuss James’s career and current practice areas. James is the leader of the Blockchain Technology and Digital Assets Team at the firm. This conversation has […]
Until recently, Clearview A.I. was a relatively unknown and secretive company. Following the publication of a recent New York Times article, the company has become the center of data privacy concerns. Clearview A.I. is a facial recognition company created by Hoan Ton-That in 2016. The company scrapes images of people’s faces from millions of websites, […]
The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), arguably the most sweeping data privacy law in the United States, went into effect on January 1, 2020. The CCPA requires companies that buy or sell data on at least 50,000 California residents per year to disclose what they do with the data and to whom they sell it. […]
Several agencies of the federal government have been purchasing cellphone location data without a warrant from a third-party company, Venntel. This development implicates new privacy questions that have not been properly addressed by the judiciary or legislation. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS), along with its divisions Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and […]
On February 11, 2020, District Court Judge Victor Marrero concluded that the $26 billion merger of Sprint with T-Mobile did not violate U.S. antitrust laws. Judge Marrero rejected the claims of fourteen states that sued to block the merger and found that efficiencies and other benefits of the transaction made the merger procompetitive. Over the […]
The 2016 U.S. Presidential Election brought critical attention to the wave of political disinformation campaigns taking place on digital media platforms. Disinformation is the use of misleading, false, or irrational arguments to manipulate public opinion for political purposes and, left unchecked, can result in an electorate disconnected from fact and skeptical of the free press. […]