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This project was inspired by El Salvador’s announcement of the first sovereign “bitcoin bond.” At the inception of this research, the bond was intended to be issued on March 20th of 2022. That timeline would have enabled this Note to analyze the success or failure of the first bond of its kind. The bond was […]

In January 2020, Google announced plans to discontinue support for the third-party cookie on their popular Chrome browser within the next two years. The third-party cookie is a widely-relied-upon tool that enables marketers to gather information about consumer behavior across the Internet. Google gave privacy justifications for this move, claiming that it wanted to “make […]

Starting on March 23, 2022, residents of Arizona could add a digital copy of their driver’s license or state identification (“ID”) to their Apple Wallet, allowing them to use their iPhones or Apple Watches to present valid government identification at airport security checkpoints. The state reported that over 11,000 people had requested digital copies of […]

*  Picture this: you are about fourteen years old; you have never known a world without the Internet, and social media is the first thing that comes to your mind when you contemplate putting creative works out into the world. You take dance classes after school and love collaborating with your friends to make choreographic […]

The federal government is expanding its use of artificial intelligence (AI) to perform key human tasks. But the Administrative Procedure Act (APA), enacted in 1946, is ill-equipped to handle the use of AI by administrative agencies. Given its dynamic nature, approval of AI software in the rulemaking process is unlikely. At the same time, the […]

With increasing regulatory attention on digital technologies, it has become clear that the United States, the European Union, and China are all, concurrently and in parallel, developing rules and frameworks on how best to govern emerging technologies and set standards of acceptable technological use. Despite the seemingly borderless nature of technology, all three jurisdictions have […]

A few months ago, I found myself at the counter of La Mallorca, a diner that one TripAdvisor review calls “the last cafetería” in San Juan, Puerto Rico. I ordered a coffee and a quesito, a cheese pastry. The server did not input my order into a computer; he just nodded, poured my coffee from an […]

The doorbell rings, but no one is there. The temperature in the home goes from extremely cold to extremely hot without anyone touching the thermostat. Locks change when no one is home or unlock without warning in the middle of the night. The refrigerator is mysteriously turned off, leaving all the food inside to spoil. […]

As governments and private companies alike increasingly invest in surveillance tools such as facial recognition technology (FRT), the specter of a much more pervasive surveillance state looms. Clearview AI—a startup that scrapes publicly available photos on the Internet and sells a facial recognition search engine to law enforcement—has in turn faced numerous lawsuits alleging violations […]

The United States Census Bureau estimates that over nine million American households are currently behind on their rent. That is just one signal that when the United States overcomes the COVID-19 crisis, it will have to deal with the eviction crisis that has been simmering for over a decade and has now boiled over due […]