Georgetown Law Technology Review

The GLTR write-on competition runs from Friday, May 28 to Sunday, June 13. This competition is open for both returning Georgetown students and transfer students. We will have an additional write-on competition only for new transfer students from Monday, August 9 to Wednesday, August 25th. There is no cost to participate! Interested students should email gltr@georgetown.edu with their name and Georgetown email address or complete a brief form at https://bit.ly/GLTR2021 to be included in the write-on process.

Please feel free to email gltr@georgetown.edu if you have any questions. We look forward to hearing from you!

Exit To Community: Strategies for Multi-Stakeholder Ownership in the Platform Economy

Morshed Mannan & Nathan Schneider

The platform economyis facing a crisis of accountability. Large Internet platforms, once regarded as sources of hope for democratic social movements or engines of a promising new economy—or, at worst, just superficial distractions—are now facing serious public scrutiny across the globe. The executives of Facebook, Google, and Twitter have been called before the U.S. Congress […]

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Pay to Play: Video Game Monetization Patents and the Doctrine of Moral Utility

Kirk A. Sigmon

Video games are now more complex and realistic than they ever have been—but making those games is not cheap. Video game development and marketing costs are sky high. To help recoup these costs, game developers and publishers have begun inventing increasingly clever ways to encourage users to spend more money on video games—and they are […]

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Learning From India’s TKDL: Digitization as a Tool to Protect Cultural Property and an Argument for Doing It Yourself

Sherlyn Abdullah

Digitization of traditional knowledge (TK) and traditional cultural expressions (TCE) can be a powerful means to many noble ends. For example, archiving herbal medicines or traditional performance art by recording it in writing or video can prevent those cultural pieces from being lost as a result of death of living memory, natural disaster, or conflict. […]

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An Interview with Dharmesh Tarapore, founder and CEO of ACAS Technologies

Zachary Gurien

In an interview with Georgetown Law Technology Review, Dharmesh Tarapore, founder and CEO of Aircraft Collision Avoidance System (ACAS) Technologies, discusses his tech start-up journey and the technology behind his flight collision avoidance system. Tarapore’s invention utilizes machine learning to increase flight safety for general aviation airplanes by detecting and alerting pilots to incoming aircrafts. […]

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New FTC Leadership Signals Stronger Privacy Enforcement and Greater Racial Equity Priorities

Amy Olivero

On February 10, 2021, Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Acting Chairwoman Rebecca Kelly Slaughter presented the keynote address at the Future of Privacy Forum’s 11th-annual Privacy Papers for Policymakers event. In her address, Slaughter discussed some of her top privacy-related priorities for the Commission. Her early signaling of privacy priorities from Washington adds to the sentiment […]

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With Great Power Comes Great Liability: Robinhood Faces Flurry of Lawsuits Over GameStop Trading Halt

Jay Schuffenhauer

The popular financial services app Robinhood ended 2020 on a high note. Armed with an influx of investor funding, Robinhood lifted its valuation to nearly $12 billion while simultaneously attracting millions of new and often young users to the platform. The company touts a mission to democratize finance for everyday people by providing financial literacy […]

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The Future of Section 230 as a New Administration Takes Office

Sam Pickerill

As President Trump feuded with social media giants Twitter and Facebook throughout 2020, Section 230 also had a rather tumultuous year. Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act shields online intermediaries from liability for user-generated content, was thrust into a surprisingly prominent place on the legislative agenda. In the waning weeks of his presidency, Trump […]

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The FTC’s Relationship with Facebook: It’s Complicated

Ryan Abercrombie

In December 2020, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”), in conjunction with attorneys general from 46 states, the District of Columbia, and Guam, announced an antitrust suit against social media giant Facebook alleging illegal monopolization under Section 2 of the Sherman Antitrust Act. The FTC seeks a permanent injunction of anticompetitive conduct and possible divestiture of […]

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A Mass Exodus from WhatsApp to Signal and Other Privacy-focused Messaging Apps May have been Misinformed

Gabriel Khoury

On January 6th, WhatsApp notified users of updates to its terms and conditions which are mandatory “to continue using WhatsApp.” The first change is that WhatsApp will now temporarily store forwarded media on its servers in an encrypted format. Second, WhatsApp will store an undelivered message for only 30 days, then it will be deleted. […]

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