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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. […]

On January 30, 2020, Apple and Broadcom were slapped with one of the largest patent jury verdicts of all time—$1.1 billion—for infringing Caltech patents on Wi-Fi technology. Caltech filed the lawsuit in 2016 alleging that Apple and Broadcom jointly infringed Caltech’s patents on new types of error correction codes that fix glitches occurring during data […]

Introduction: With election season upon us, election security is a topic of much debate and utmost importance. I recently had the opportunity to sit down with Drew Bagley and Robert Sheldon, two thought leaders at the leading cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike to discuss some of the issues facing cybersecurity in U.S. elections, and the challenges involved with […]

On January 13th, 2020, Brooklyn Nets guard Spencer Dinwiddie gave fans an opportunity to become more invested with an NBA player than ever before. The launch of Dinwiddie’s DREAM Fan Shares allows accredited investors to use digital tokens to invest in Dinwiddie’s three-year, $34 million guaranteed contract. The Ethereum-based blockchain platform claims that it will […]

Facial recognition “creates a ‘template’ of the target’s facial image and compares the template to photographs of preexisting images of a face(s) (known).” The technology is used by a wide range of groups, including law enforcement, airlines, and retail stores. Proponents of facial recognition emphasize its advantages, such as improving security and preventing fraud. Conversely, […]

Earlier this year, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) authorized the marketing of a software program, Caption Guidance, that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to help medical professionals administer cardiac ultrasounds. Caption Guidance helps the user capture high quality diagnostic images of a patient’s heart. After the images are captured, a cardiologist reviews the images […]

The Supreme Court will hear one of the most significant copyright law cases of the 21st century. The Google v. Oracle oral argument is scheduled for March 24th, with a decision likely by June. The foremost question presented is whether application programming interfaces (“APIs”) are copyrightable. A holding affirming that APIs are original works of authorship […]

The United States Supreme Court may take up two cases this term resolving critical questions about the constitutionality and scope of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991 (“TCPA”). The Court is currently reviewing briefs in support and opposition of certiorari from the Ninth Circuit’s decision in Duguid v. Facebook, Inc., 926 F.3d 1146 (9th […]