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Data privacy surged to the forefront of policy concerns in Congress during 2018 after revelations regarding Cambridge Analytica’s misappropriation of Facebook user information. As a result, elected officials in both the House and Senate spent months hosting hearings, grilling technology companies, and drafting bills to address growing concern about the “wanton collection, dissemination, and monetization […]

Authorities in China have declared that researcher He Jiankui’s controversial gene-editing work “seriously violated” state laws. At a conference in November, the researcher revealed that he had successfully created the first gene-edited humans using CRISPR-Cas9 technology. China, as well as the United States, prohibit gene-editing for reproductive purposes. His conduct has reignited debates regarding the […]

The Growing Concern Over Data Privacy Individual data privacy is and has been a global concern for much of the 21st century. Should anyone need convincing, it is estimated that Google processes over 40,000 searches per second. Internet searches generally occur through a web browser run via a local computing environment. It may seem completely […]

In an interview with Georgetown Law Technology Review, Paul Ohm, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor of Law at Georgetown Law,discusseshow consumer privacy issues affect Americans, and addresses the need for better consumer privacy regulation. Paul Ohm is the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor of Law at Georgetown University LawCenter. He specializes […]

In an interview with Georgetown Law Technology Review, Karla Torres, AR Human Rights Policy Counsel at the Center for Reproductive Rights, describes how assisted reproduction (AR) and assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs) fit broadly among intersecting social movements, and how rapidly progressing technologies impact the surrounding legal landscape.   AR refers to medical technologies used to […]

Consumer rights advocates secured a major victory this October, as the Library of Congress and the US Copyright Office published new exemptions to Section 1201 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). Among other effects, the new exemptions will promote digital preservation, make it easier to conduct security research, and enable users to repair and […]

The rapid expansion and evolution of artificial intelligence (AI) in our world has emphasized both the infinite amount of new possibilities this technology may be able to achieve, as well as the perils that its very use may cause. This duality is not news to the technology community—at  the end of October, Google announced that […]

On November 26th, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Apple v. Pepper, a long-running antitrust case that was originally filed back in 2011 against both Apple and AT&T, which at the time had a five-year exclusivity deal for the iPhone following its initial launch. The claims against AT&T were dismissed in 2013 and the […]

In November, 2018, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) reported that Ferial Nijem had been harassed by her ex-partner through her home security system. Nijem’s ex-partner used the security system installed in the home they used to share to blare music, flicker the lights, and turn the TVs on and off in the middle of the […]

On October 4, 2018, Bloomberg Businessweek reported that Chinese spies had surreptitiously implanted microchips as small as a “sharpened pencil tip” on server motherboards sold by Supermicro, an American company whose customers included Apple and Amazon. Businessweek alleged that the spies had forced domestic subcontractors to install the chips before the processed components were shipped to other […]