Advocacy of body camera policing reform has been growing in the United States in response to a widespread and increasing distrust of law enforcement among minority communities.[1] Body camera reform advocates have supporting statistics on their side. In 2014, the Police Executive Research Forum (PERF), with support from the Department of Justice, published the report, Implementing a Body-Worn Camera Program:… read more
On July 6, 2018, Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí (the Dalí Foundation) filed a complaint in in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California alleging that the Dalí17 Museum misappropriated Dalí’s name and likeness in its logo in order to advertise and promote the museum and that Dalí17 illegally reproduced and displayed copyrighted artworks online. The Dalí Foundation… read more
In Carpenter v. United States, the Supreme Court tackles the issue of whether individuals still retain an expectation of privacy in their location information when they “share” that information with third party providers. The case began in 2010. After several RadioShack and T-Mobile stores were robbed, police arrested four suspects. Timothy Carpenter was one of the suspects. Under the Stored… read more
Have you ever received a bunch of annoying promotional e-mails and let them stuck in your inbox because you hardly find the “unsubscribe” button in the e-mail? Or have you ever made a hasty choice because your heart is trembling fast when an “Only 1 room left!” notification appears in a travel website? If that were the case, then most… read more
After four years of preparation and debate the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) was finally approved by the EU Parliament on April 14, 2016, coming in to effect on May 25, 2018. Nine months after its enforcement, this article seeks to examine its impacts on individuals as well as businesses. Overview The aim of the GDPR is to protect… read more
With the overwhelming numbers of criminal mischief, the government seems to seek resourceful leeway that may lead to the findings of valuable evidence in an investigation. Among all feasible scenarios, there is a possibility for the law enforcer to request access to the criminal offender’s cell phone locked with latest facial biometrics technology, including the technology of Face ID introduced… read more
Biometric Technology Industry Biometrics encompasses a wide variety of technologies, which aim to identify a person’s identity based on unique, unchanging physical or behavioral characteristics. Biometric technologies include fingerprint recognition, voice identification, facial recognition, DNA matching, and signature recognition. Though biometric technology has been utilized for hundreds of years, there has been rapid technological innovation in the biometric field in… read more
Can a video game company be held liable for placing virtual items on private property? The answer is – maybe. On February 14, 2019, the developer of the mobile game Pokémon Go, Niantic, reached a settlement agreement with class action plaintiffs who alleged that the game caused players to trespass and create nuisance on private properties. For those unfamiliar with… read more
With the advent and then explosion of consumer internet access in the 1990s, a concomitant threat of massive, anonymous, and difficult-to-trace copyright infringement also arose. Congress faced significant pressure from two major industries: traditional media producers and internet service providers. Traditional media producers feared the practical death of their intellectual property through unstoppable and untraceable internet file-sharing, while internet service… read more
On August 17, 2018, the United States District Court for the Northern District of California denied class action certification for the retired National Football League (NFL) players suing Electronic Arts for using their likelihood in their Madden NFL series videogames, and dismissed Electronic Arts’ summary judgement motion in the case Davis v. Electronic Arts, Inc. This decision follows a Ninth… read more
