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by Jennifer Chung (J.D. 2022) Biometrics are a cutting-edge aspect of technology present in many people’s lives.[1] They measure an individual’s personal characteristics and are more commonly recognized as the fingerprint and facial recognition technology on the Apple iPhone, the fingerprint recognition technology on many laptops, and the facial recognition ...

COMPLETE VOLUME 34, ISSUE 3 Complete Issue FRONT MATTER Front Matter ARTICLES The Institutional Life of Algorithmic Risk Assessment by Alicia Solow-Niederman, YooJung Choi & Guy Van den Broeck Strange Loops: Apparent Versus Actual Human Involvement in Automated Decision Making by Kiel Brennan-Marquez, Karen Levy & Daniel Susser Procurement as ...

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COMPLETE VOLUME 34, ISSUE 2 Complete Issue FRONT MATTER Front Matter ARTICLES Authors and Machines by Jane C. Ginsburg & Luke Ali Budiardjo Legally Cognizable Manipulation by Ido Kilovaty Secrecy & Evasion in Police Surveillance Technology by Jonathan Manes Unconscionability 2.0 and the IP Boilerplate: A Revised Doctrine of Unconscionability ...

by Kevin Chen (J.D. 2022)   The data we generate every day is not our own.[1] Data brokers like Spokeo and PeekYou as well as companies like Datalogix and Equifax collect and own that data.[2] However, data collection companies sometimes fail to properly handle our data, resulting in data breaches ...

By Karnik Hajjar (J.D. 2022)   When the movie Gattaca came out in 1997, it seemed more fantasy than science fiction. The idea of a society in which people could be born with enhanced genetics seemed far beyond the reach of science – the human genome had yet to be ...

by Ross Ufberg (J.D. 2022)   Open-government advocates have wreaked havoc on the world of legal publishing. The Supreme Court is about to hear a contentious question: Can states copyright the law? Public.Resources.Org, (PRO), a website committed to making the government more accessible, is being sued by the State of ...

by Margo Blase (J.D. 2022) The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA) requires companies to provide reasonable accommodations and accessibility to all public and private places open to the general public.[1] It provides little to no direction, however, for what accessibility means in the digital age. The ADA was ...

by Evan Enzer (J.D. 2021) This blog was inspired by an episode of Slate’s podcast “If Then” entitled When Your DNA is Public Information. The podcast is available at https://slate.com/podcasts/if-then/2019/08/ancestry-and-genealogy-websites-crack-cold-cases-but-raise-privacy-concerns. I. Introduction Police departments have recently started using consumer DNA databases to conduct familial DNA searches, a practice that raises ...