Deepfake is Here. What Should We Do?
Lvxiao Chen is a J.D. candidate, 2021 at NYU School of Law. Seeing used to be believing. Not so much in the era of photoshop and computer-generated imagery (CGI). Even less so starting around...
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As California Goes, So Goes the Nation: How California Legislators Triggered a Seismic Change to the Bedrock of College Sports
Sean Cunningham is a J.D. candidate, 2021 at NYU School of Law. In September, after securing a unanimous vote in California’s senate, Senate Bill 206 was signed into law by the state’s governor. As...
hiQ Labs, Inc. v. LinkedIn Corp.: Scratching the Surface of Web Scraping
Neha Mehta is a J.D. Candidate, 2021 at NYU School of Law. Introduction to Data Scraping It’s hard to imagine how the Internet would function without web scraping. Web scraping, often referred to as...
The Potential of 5G
Siddra Shah is a J.D. candidate, 2021 at NYU School of Law. 5G is the “fifth generation” of wireless technology. Each generation has incrementally improved mobile networks and wireless infrastructure. “In the 1980s and...
Body Cameras, Law Enforcement, and Privacy Law
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...
Copyright and Publicity Rights in the Museum Context
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...
Genetic Privacy After Carpenter
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...
Dark Patterns: We May or May Not Realize We’re Being Tricked
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...
The Impact of the GDPR
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...
Biometric Facial Recognition for Unlocking iPhone – Does it Violate the Fifth Amendment?
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...