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Bet, or be silent.  This was a common phrase used in Britain during the 18th century, implying that an opinion is more credible when an individual is willing to support it with a wager.  That wisdom can be applied to modern political prediction markets (PPMs). PPMs are markets that allow their participants to place bets […]

Madison Square Garden Entertainment Company (the Company) has begun using facial recognition technology to identify and eject attorneys involved in adverse litigation from events held at its venues. While Madison Square Garden and other venues owned by the Company have used facial recognition technology (FRT) for security since 2018, the issue of these retaliatory ejections […]

This week, the Supreme Court heard Gonzalez v. Google, a case that could radically undermine one of the Internet’s most sacrosanct laws: Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act (47 U.S.C. § 230). Reynaldo Gonzalez sued Google after his daughter died in a 2015 ISIS attack in Paris. He claims that Google promoted ISIS’ recruitment […]

In the wake of COVID-19, the use of telemedicine has grown rapidly. Telemedicine – “the practice of medicine using technology to deliver [health] care remotely” – has shifted the way patients and providers engage. Key to its rise has been a loosening of regulations resulting from the January 2020 declaration of a Public Health Emergency, […]

If you were building a house, you would likely put some thought into securing it, whether through cameras, alarms, or the family’s beloved German Shepherd. But what if I told you that in a matter of years, none of these security measures would be effective? That’s the case with our computer-stored data right now. Almost […]

In June 2021, Microsoft subsidiary Github unveiled Copilot—a cloud-based artificial intelligence tool that promises to “help you write code faster and with less work.”  Copilot does this by suggesting source code and functions as developers type either code or natural language into its module.  This way, users can code without knowing how to write in […]

In October 2021, the Uniform Law Commission (ULC) adopted the Uniform Personal Data Protection Act (UPDPA).  This Act is purported to apply “fair information practices to the collection and use of personal data from consumers by business enterprises.” Despite the ULC’s efforts, the Act prioritizes the interests of businesses over consumers. More than a year […]

In June 2022, a YouTuber trained an AI bot, GPT-4chan, to mimic racist, misogynistic, and antisemitic posts from the website 4chan. He used the bot to post 30,000 comments within a few days, then shared its underlying AI model on an online collaborative coding platform: Hugging Face Hub. Any user could download the GPT-4chan model […]

With the overturn of Roe v. Wade, users of “femtech”—apps used to track reproductive health, menstrual cycles, and fertility—should be concerned that their data could be weaponized against them. These apps collect deeply personal information, including a woman’s age, dates of past periods, sexual activity, birth control usage, and pregnancy. When this data is aggregated […]

The so-called “crypto winter” got a good bit colder last week as one of the crypto industry’s titans, Sam Bankman-Fried, saw his empire crumble.  The crypto-exchange founder’s net worth was reportedly $16 billion on Monday; by Friday, it had fallen to zero.  This is just the latest in a series of crashes that crypto-industry leaders […]