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French Kiss Your Privacy Goodbye
In 2024, exactly one hundred years after Paris last hosted the Summer Olympics, France will once again welcome the Games. With an economy...
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Apr 23, 20235 min read


Big Brother’s Rude Awakening: How data ought to be protected in the age of the internet
Americans have prized individual liberty since the nation’s founding. Naturally, many people are suspicious of the government collecting...
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Jan 8, 20215 min read


California’s Big Paradigm Shift
In California, the data privacy landscape faces radical change. Set to take effect on January 1, 2020, the California Consumer Privacy...
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Dec 31, 20194 min read


Public Spaces Bite Back
In 2014, Mosquitos began to take over Philadelphia parks, forcing teenagers and young adults out of public spaces at night. Contrary to...
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Dec 31, 20195 min read


The Right to Privacy
Since 1985, 86 countries have decriminalized homosexuality. In many of these countries, legal threats to the right to exist as an LGBTQ...
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Dec 31, 20193 min read


Google Wants Your Health Data. You Should Give It To Them.
Tech companies know too much about us. So, it makes sense that the conversation around digital privacy revolves around keeping our...
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Dec 31, 20195 min read


23andUs
DNA, the genetic code that lays the foundation for a person’s health, mental abilities, and personality traits, is a fundamental building...
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Dec 31, 20195 min read


How Sacramento Became More Effective Than Washington DC
As of January 1st, 2020, the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) will officially become law. The CCPA will add to the existing...
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Dec 21, 20196 min read


Alexa, Am I Dying?
Amazon’s Alexa has reshaped how millions of American consumers live and behave at home. We might think of Alexa as that robot we yell at...
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May 28, 20196 min read


Power to the States: Preparing for a Post-Roe America
On January 22, 1973, the Supreme Court issued one of the most consequential decisions of the century: Roe v. Wade. Crafting an argument...
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Nov 1, 20186 min read


Europe, China, and the Future of Data in America
China’s social credit policies have populated news headlines recently, and it’s easy to see why. The social credit score (SCS), which...
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Jun 28, 20185 min read


The War on Terror: Does the End Justify the Means?
On September 22, 2001, President Bush announced that the 9/11 terrorist attacks had “awakened the United States to danger, and called it...
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Dec 9, 20146 min read


Ignoring the Noise, Part II: Section 702 Collection
Let us turn to the legal questions posed by another of this summer’s intelligence disclosures, concerning data collection pursuant to...
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Sep 27, 20134 min read
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