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Online messaging platforms like Signal and Google’s Messages increasingly use end-to-end encryption (E2EE), in which messages are encrypted on the sender’s device and decrypted on the recipient’s, so that no one else—not even the platform itself—can read them. Although E2EE protects privacy and advances human rights, the law enforcement community and others have criticized its […]

Famed American model and television personality Tyra Banks once wrote, “Love me or hate me I promise that it will never make or break me…<3.” Fortunately, the same cannot be said for harmful artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) models. Indeed, harmful AI and ML models can and should be broken and more specifically, […]

Data privacy has become an increasingly important and popular topic in recent years, especially with the large-scale introduction of artificial intelligence (AI) in a variety of sectors. In 2021, legislators across twenty-nine states introduced state data privacy bills, marking a 106% increase from the year before. According to EPIC’s Executive Director Alan Butler, a national, […]

Social media platforms’ content moderation—including censorship— should qualify for First Amendment protection. A recent circuit split between the Eleventh and Fifth Circuits brought these key issues to the forefront by demonstrating the tension between the free speech rights of platforms and those of their users, raising concerns about platforms’ power to shape public discourse and […]

Social media use is this generation’s alternative to smoking: an addictive and unhealthy vice that ravaged society before regulators thought to act. Though its use can be pleasurable and even helpful, social media’s ill-effects suggest a stronger standard of product liability may be appropriate. That stronger standard may be on its way. This past summer, […]

A secretive, new weapon is steadily challenging the global balance of power. Authoritarian and democratic regimes alike are clamoring for commercially available “spyware” technologies that enable them to surreptitiously track and monitor the private communications of almost anyone, anywhere in the world. The leading spyware vendor, NSO Group, has become infamous for its Pegasus product, […]

The COVID-19 pandemic proved to be a boon for digital currencies and assets, particularly for non-fungible tokens (NFTs), which gained massive prominence and skyrocketed in price during 2020, 2021, and 2022. With this frenzied market reaching its peak during late 2021 and early 2022, NFTs were regularly selling for millions of dollars. Because of the […]

This Note discusses a novel, technology-enabled approach to address the issue of people being sent to jail for unpaid court debt in the United States. In 2016, the state of Oklahoma passed a law that makes formerly incarcerated people eligible for a waiver of their outstanding court fees if they comply with all probation requirements […]

Advancements in election technology have led to both administrative convenience and greater levels of skepticism of electoral fraud. While election technology is promising, it is critical for voters to trust the system in order to have an effective, democratic election. This Note argues that there is no “right” answer to the question: what is the […]

This Technology Explainer will explore the growing field of synthetic biology. Although other fields of science may fall under the umbrella of synthetic biology, the scope of this piece will be limited to the generally accepted view that synthetic biology is a branch of bioengineering dedicated to the creation of artificial, unnatural, or synthetic forms […]