Author: Carolyn Wimbly MartinPublished: June 30th, 2021As fashion becomes more intertwined with the digital world, artificial intelligence has emerged as a useful tool in the creation of garments, prediction of consumer trends and detection of counterfeit products. The introduction of AI to the fashion industry allows for incredible advancements, but
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Author: Jenny L. ColgatePublished: February 8, 2021In December 2020, Apple started requiring Apps to display mandatory labels that provide a graphic, easy-to-digest version of their privacy policies. They are being called “privacy nutrition labels,” presumably a reference to the mandatory FDA-required “Nutrition Facts” labels that have appeared on food since 1990.Click
Read MoreAuthor: Carolyn Wimbly Martin, Ethan BarrPublished: December 30th, 2020Digital Rights Management (DRM) technology is designed to prevent users from illicitly copying or distributing copyrighted material. However, content providers have also used the technology to remove content from users e-libraries that consumers have been led to believe were purchases, rather than short
Read MoreAuthor: Jenny L. ColgatePublished: January 12th, 2021Facebook, the parent company to WhatsApp, is reporting near-record low revenue growth. Thus, presumably in an effort to monetize WhatsApp more heavily, WhatsApp recently announced changes to its privacy policy: as of February 8, 2021, all WhatsApp users (except those that live in Europe) must agree
Read MoreAuthor: Caitlin WilmotPublished: January 14th, 2021On Monday, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced a settlement with Everalbum, Inc., the California-based developer of a photo app called “Ever,” with regard to allegations that the company deceived consumers about the use of its facial recognition technology and its data retention practices.Click here to view
Read MoreAuthor: Jennifer B. MaiselPublished: January 20th, 2021Website operators can consider a host of potential legal claims against entities that scrape their sites’ content without authorization, such as breach of a well-crafted terms of service agreement, copyright infringement, trespass, conversion, common law misappropriation, unfair competition, violations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act,
Read MoreAuthor: Jenny L. ColgatePublished: January 27th, 2021A recent article from CNN reported on SpaceX and Amazon sparring over their competing satellite-based internet business. The article reports that at the center of the dispute is “a recent attempt by SpaceX to modify its license for Starlink, a massive constellation of internet satellites, of
Read MoreAuthor: Jenny L. Colgate, Caitlin WilmotPublished: February 3rd, 2021While Europe is leveraging hefty fines against violators of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the United States Supreme Court heard oral arguments last month on whether the FTC – the chief federal agency on privacy policy and enforcement since the 1970s – lacks
Read MoreAuthor: Jenny L. ColgatePublished: February 8th, 2021In December 2020, Apple started requiring Apps to display mandatory labels that provide a graphic, easy-to-digest version of their privacy policies. They are being called “privacy nutrition labels,” presumably a reference to the mandatory FDA-required “Nutrition Facts” labels that have appeared on food since 1990. In
Read MoreAuthor: Carolyn Wimbly MartinPublished: September 24, 2020Drones are nothing new, but recent concerns about their use by government officials for the surveillance of peaceful protests have ignited pleas for increased privacy protection. And their widespread use by laypeople increases the risks of invasions of the privacy of ordinary citizens. Here we
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