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Professor Alexandra Roberts Named Senior Fellow—Trademarks at GMU’s CIP2
Professor Alexandra Roberts, a leading expert on intellectual property and social media, has been named a Senior Fellow for Trademarks at the George Mason University Center for Intellectual Property x Innovation Policy (C-IP2). CIP2 produces research, education and service at the intersection of IP and innovation policy to better understand and shape the means of innovation as a positive force for good. During her fellowship, Roberts will collaborate with center leadership on strategic plans, help identify law and policy questions for research and writing projects, and assist with planning and executing IP programming, with a focus on current issues in trademark law.
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Professor Kara W. Swanson Awarded SHOT’s Martha Trescott Prize
Professor Kara W. Swanson, a renowned expert on intellectual property and the history of science, has been named the winner of the 2022 Martha Trescott Prize by the Society for the History of Technology (SHOT) in recognition of her article “Inventing the Woman Voter: Suffrage, Ability, and Patents,” published in the Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era (JGAPE).
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Alexandra Jane Roberts Joins Northeastern as Professor of Law and Media
Alexandra Jane Roberts has joined the university faculty as professor of law and media within the School of Law and the Department of Music within the College of Arts, Media and Design (CAMD) at Northeastern University. A leading authority on intellectual property and social media, Professor Roberts’ research focuses on federal trademark and false advertising law, particularly in cyberspace.
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Williams and Waldman Receive Northeastern University Grant
Professors Patricia Williams and Ari Ezra Waldman — along with colleagues in Northeastern University's College of Arts, Media and Design — have been awarded a Northeastern University Tier 1 Grant for an innovative research project, “See Something, Frame Something.” The project will investigate how various governments and private companies collaborate to surveil marginalized communities. In addition to publishing its research findings, the project will host a nationwide hybrid convening at Northeastern in 2022 to deepen understanding of this topic and engage additional researchers and artists in conversations.
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Nasser Eledroos Joins CLIC as Managing Director
Nasser Eledroos has joined Northeastern Law's Center for Law, Information and Creativity (CLIC) as managing director. Eledroos is a public interest technologist whose professional experiences have been centered in using technology to inform public policy and law reform.
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In Industry Unbound, Waldman Exposes how Big Tech Systematically Undermines Our Privacy
There are many new privacy laws, tens of thousands of privacy professionals and new privacy offices all tasked with protecting our privacy from inside the information industry. So why does our privacy seem more out of reach than ever? Sunglasses that spy, in-home assistants that listen to everything, websites that track our every move online. These aren’t accidents. The system is working just as its designed to work. In Industry Unbound: The Inside Story of Privacy, Data, and Corporate Power (Cambridge University Press, 2021), Professor Ari Ezra Waldman exposes exactly how the tech industry conducts its ongoing crusade to undermine our privacy, undermine privacy law and subjugate us all in the process.
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- December 14, 2022: Jonathan Kahn, Undark, “Q&A: Jonathan Kahn on New Frontiers in Racial Profiling.”
- December 7, 2022: Claudia Haupt, News@Northeastern, “So Far, Elon Musk’s Twitter Files Amount to ‘a Tempest in a Teapot,’ Expert Says.”
- December 2, 2022: Alexandra Roberts, News@Northeastern, “How Far Can British Street Artist Banksy Take His Anonymity?”
- November 22, 2022: Alexandra Roberts, Bloomberg Law, “Twitter Blue Checks Raise Trademark Risk After Fake Lilly Fiasco.”
- November 19, 2022: Alexandra Roberts, VOA News, “Experts Advise Students to Be Cautious on Twitter.”
- November 17, 2022: Alexandra Roberts, Law360, “Athletes Likely Off the Hook In FTX Mess, But No Guarantee.”
- November 14, 2022: Alexandra Roberts, Reuters, “Would Twitter Get Online Publisher Immunity in Fake 'Blue Check' Suits?”
- November 12, 2022: Northeastern Law News Announcement, “Professor Alexandra Roberts Named Senior Fellow—Trademarks at GMU’s CIP2.”
- November 3, 2022: Alexandra Roberts, The Fashion Law, “Revisiting the Bounds, Effectiveness of the Morals Clause Amid the Yeezy Fallout.”
- October 13, 2022: Alexandra Roberts, Daily Dot, “Bethenny Frankel Sends TikTok Creator Meredith Lynch a Cease and Desist, Sparking Debate.”
- October 7, 2022: Alexandra Roberts, Daily Dot, “TikToker Says Her Video Was Used in Refy Beauty Ad Without Her Permission, Sparking Debate.”
- October 5, 2022: Ari Waldman, News@Northeastern, “States Are Starting to Crack Down on Cyberflashing, but It Might Not Be Enough.”
- October 4, 2022: Alexandra Roberts, Digiday, “After Kim Kardashian’s Sec Settlement, Influencers Working With Brands Could Face More Scrutiny – And Fines.”
- September 13, 2022: Alexandra Roberts, Sportico, “Luka Doncic Embroiled in Unusual Trademark Dispute With His Mother.”
- August 30, 2022: Alexandra Roberts, Bloomberg Law, “Trump’s ‘Truth Social’ Trademark Loss More Detour Than Roadblock.”
- August 24, 2022: Alexandra Roberts, Fast Company, “Is That Shirt a Gucci . . . or a Cuggl?”
- August 18, 2022: Ari Waldman, News@Northeastern, “A Woman’s Facebook Messages Were Used in an Abortion Case. Here’s Why That’s Not Surprising.”
- August 3, 2022: Alexandra Roberts, Protocol, “What’s in a Name? If the Name Is Meta, a Lawsuit.”
- August 2, 2022: Alexandra Roberts, The Fashion Law, “As Makeup Co., Molly Sims Settle Lawsuit, Uncertainty Over Influencer Liability Remains,”
- May 24, 2022: Woodrow Hartzog, CNN, “She Thought a Dark Moment in Her Past Was Forgotten. Then She Scanned Her Face Online.”
- May 24, 2022: Ari Waldman, This Week in Digital Trust Podcast, “Privacy Unbound: An Interview with Professor Ari Ezra Waldman.”
- May 22, 2022: Ari Waldman, Protocol, “Data Privacy and Harassment Could spoil Grindr’s Wall Street Romance.”
- May 2022: Ari Waldman, SCTE Long Read , “The Internet of Things and Your Data: Making the Invisible Visible.”
- April 21. 2022: Woodrow Hartzog, ABA Podcast, “Cybersecurity and Data Privacy – The New Frontier: The Federal Trade Commission and its Role in Enforcing Data Security and Privacy.”
- February 28, 2022: Woodrow Hartzog, The Huntington News, “Northeastern Professor Advocates for Change in US Privacy Policies.”
- February 23, 2022: Woodrow Hartzog, Medium, “Investing in Research to Inform a New Paradigm.”
- February 10, 2022: Rashida Richardson, The Economists's Here and Now Film Series, “How to Make Computers Less Biased.”
- February 8, 2022: Ari Waldman, Boston25 News, “With Groceries Getting More Expensive, How Much Can Rewards Cards Save Shoppers?”
- February 2, 2022: Woodrow Hartzog, The Boston Globe, “Mass. Lawmakers Advance Digital Privacy Bill.”
- November 9, 2021: Woodrow Hartzog and Ari Ezra Waldman, news@Northeastern, “Facebook Isn’t Shutting Down Its Facial Recognition System After All.”
- October 27, 2021: Ari Ezra Waldman, NBC Bay Area News, “Industry Unbound.”
- October 18, 2021: Nasser Eledroos, Northeastern Law News Announcement, “Nasser Eledroos Joins CLIC as Managing Director.”
- October 13, 2021: Woodrow Hartzog, news@Northeastern, “Is There Such a Thing as a Safe Algorithm? Talk of Facebook Regulation Gathers Momentum.”
- October 7, 2021: Woodrow Hartzog, The Boston Globe, “Massachusetts Has a Chance To Clean Up Our National Privacy Disaster.”
- October 1, 2021: Claudia Haupt, news@Northeastern, “Is YouTube Violating the First Amendment by Taking Down Anti-Vaccine Videos?”
- September 30, 2021 :Ari Ezra Waldman, Wired, “How a Secret Google Geofence Warrant Helped Catch the Capitol Riot Mob.”
- September 24, 2021: Ari Ezra Waldman, Northeastern Law News Announcement, “In Industry Unbound, Waldman Exposes how Big Tech Systematically Undermines Our Privacy.”
- September 16, 2021: Ari Ezra Waldman, Bloomberg Law Podcast, “Are Geofence Warrants Sweeping Up Your Cellphone Data?”
- September 12, 2021: Ari Ezra Waldman, TNW, “What Does It Actually Mean When a Company Says, “We Do Not Sell Your Data”?”
- September 9, 2021: Woodrow Hartzog, Law Professors Blog Network, “10 Most-Cited Law & Technology Scholars in the U.S., 2016-2020.”
- August 25, 2021: Rashida Richardson, MeriTalk, “White House OSTP Hires Senior Policy Advisor for Data & Democracy.”
- August 18, 2021: Rashida Richardson, MeriTalk, “Northeastern Law Scholar With a Focus on Data Justice Appointed to White House Post.”
- August 18, 2021: Ari Ezra Waldman, Electronic Frontier Foundation, “How LGBTQ+ Content is Censored Under the Guise of "Sexually Explicit."
- August 17, 2021: Ari Ezra Waldman, BYU Radio, “Biometrics and Business.”
- August 5, 2021: Woodrow Hartzog, Press Release: “Rep. Eshoo Reintroduces Legislation to Ban Microtargeted Political Ads.”
- August 4, 2021: Ari Ezra Waldman, news@Northeastern, “Should You Sell Your Palm Print to Amazon?”
- August 2, 2021: Ari Ezra Waldman, Consumer Research, “Papers We’re Reading: Privacy Law’s False Promise.”
- July 21, 2021: Ari Ezra Waldman, Slate, “A Prominent Priest Was Outed for Using Grindr. Experts Say It’s a Warning Sign.”
- July 17, 2021: Woodrow Hartzog, The Markup, “President Biden’s Executive Order on Big Tech.”
- July 7, 2021: Rashida Richardson, Medium, “Suspect Development Systems: Databasing Marginality & Enforcing Discipline.”
- June 24, 2021: Woodrow Hartzog and Rashida Richardson, news@Northeastern, “Who Is at Fault When Autonomous Systems Behave in Unpredictable Ways?”
- May 3, 2021: “Northeastern Once Again Ranked No. 1 for Practical Training, Tops preLaw’s Intellectual Property Rankings.”
- April 27, 2021: Woodrow Hartzog, Northeastern Law News Announcement, “Professor Hartzog Appointed to Facial Recognition Technology Commission.”
- March 23, 2021: Woodrow Hartzog, Bloomberg Law, “‘Dark Patterns’ in Consumer Data Privacy Garner Policy Attention.”
- March 20, 2021: Woodrow Hartzog, The Regulatory Review, “Facing Bias in Facial Recognition Technology.”
- March 9, 2021: Kara Swanson, Forbes, “How This Unsung Black Entrepreneur Changed The Food Industry Forever—And Made A Lot Of Dough.”
- February 11, 2021: Rashida Richardson, Fast Company, “Fighting AI Bias Needs To Be a Key Part of Biden’s Civil Rights Agenda.”
- February 5, 2021: Rashida Richardson, Technology Review, “Predictive Policing is Still Racist—Whatever Data it Uses,”
- February 3, 2021: Rashida Richardson, The German Marshall Fund of the United States, “Facial Recognition in the Public Sector: The Policy Landscape.”
- February 2, 2021: Rashida Richardson, The Hill,“States are Failing on Big Tech and Privacy — Biden Must Take the Lead,”
- January 6, 2021: Ari Waldman, Northeastern Law News Announcement, “Professor Waldman Appointed to Editorial Board of Law & Social Inquiry.”
- January 21, 2021: Woodrow Hartzog, The New York Times, “What Happens When You Click ‘Agree’?”
- January 15, 2021: Woodrow Hartzog, Los Angeles Times, “Banning Trump from Twitter and Facebook isn’t Nearly Enough.”
- January 11, 2021: Claudia Haupt and Woodrow Hartzog, Northeastern News, “Twitter and Facebook Have the Right to Ban Trump’s Accounts. But That Won’t Stop the Violent Rhetoric.”
- January 13, 2021: Claudia Haupt, 7 News Boston, “Local Expert says Trump Social Media Ban Does Not Infringe on First Amendment Rights.”
- January 7, 2021: Claudia Haupt, Northeastern News, “Twitter and Facebook Have the Right to Ban Trump’s Accounts. But That Won’t Stop the Violent Rhetoric.”
- January 5, 2021: Shalanda Baker, The Hill, “From Rhetoric to Reality: Achieving Climate Justice.”
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- December 19, 2020: Ari Waldman, The Regulatory Review, “Cyberbullying and the Limits of Free Speech.”
- November 10, 2020: Woodrow Hartzog, LinkedIn,“The FTC Zoom Case: Does the FTC Need a New Approach?”
- October 6, 2020: Claudia Haupt, Bill of Health Blog, “When Health Advice Is Hard to Come by, BIPOC Suffer the Consequences.”
- September 4, 2020: Woodrow Hartzog, The Boston Globe, “Getting the First Amendment Wrong.”
- September 2, 2020: Woodrow Hartzog, Northeastern Law News Announcement, “Hartzog Advocates Against Biometric Recognition in AI Now Institute Publication.”
- August 24, 2020: Woodrow Hartzog, Nature, “The Unequal Scramble for Coronavirus Vaccines — by the Numbers.”
- August 18, 2020: Woodrow Hartzog, Medium, “Beware of Apps Bearing Gifts in a Pandemic.”
- August 11, 2020: Ari Waldman, Digital Privacy News, “Rating Big Tech CEOs’ Answers to Congress on Digital Privacy.”
- August 4, 2020: Woodrow Hartzog, The Justice Collaborative Institute, “The Case for Banning Law Enforcement From Using Facial Recognition Technology.”
- August 3, 2020: Jessica Silbey, IP JOTWELL, “Fixing Informational Asymmetry Through Trademark Search.”
- July 27, 2020: Brook Baker, The Times of India, “‘Suspend Patents on Covid-19 Drugs in India to Accessibility and Affordability.”
- July 14, 2020: Kara Swanson, Bloomberg Law, “For Black Inventors, Road to Owning Patents Paved With Barriers.”
- July 10, 2020: Brook Baker, VOA News,“Health Authorities Aim to Build Alternative to COVID-19 Nationalism.”
- July 9, 2020: Brook Baker, Health GAP,“Biden’s Commitment to Global Sharing of COVID-19 Vaccine Technology is a Step in the Right Direction, Must be Followed by Concrete Plans to Dismantle Dangerous Healthcare Nationalism”
- July 9, 2020: Brook Baker, Common Dreams, “'Step in the Right Direction,' Say Healthcare Advocates as Biden Vows to Share Any Covid-19 Vaccine With the World.”
- July 1, 2020: Woodrow Hartzog, news@Northeastern“We Know Companies are Collecting and Sharing our Data. Is there Anything We Can Do About It?”
- July 1, 2020: Woodrow Hartzog, Northeastern Law News Announcement, “Professor Waldman Named to Commission to Reimagine the Future of New York’s Courts.”
- July 1, 2020: Woodrow Hartzog, news@Northeastern, “We Know Companies Are Collecting and Sharing Our Data. Is There Anything We Can Do About It?”
- June 29, 2020: Brook Baker, VOA News, “US Procures Almost Entire Supply of COVID-19 Drug.”
- June 22, 2020: Woodrow Hartzog, “Big Tech Juggles Ethical Pledges on Facial Recognition With Corporate Interests,” NBC News.
- June 20, 2020: Jessica Silbey, “How the Rise of Digital Media, Innovation and Data Privacy Regulation Have Shifted the Legal Job Market,” Counsel to Counsel Podcast.
- June 20, 2020: Kara Swanson, PatentlyO,“Invention of a Slave and the Ongoing Movement For Equal Justice.”
- June 17, 2020: Woodrow Hartzog, The Brookings Institute, “The Dangers of Tech-Driven Solutions to COVID-19.”
- June 17, 2020: Ari Waldman, New York State Unified Court System Press Release, “Chief Judge DiFiore Names Commission to Develop Comprehensive Vision for the Court System of the Future.”
- June 17, 2020: Woodrow Hartzog, “Leading Scholars and Organizations Announce Support for Rep. Eshoo’s Bill to Ban Microtargeted Political Ads,” Press Release, Office of Congresswowman Anna G. Eshoo.
- June 15, 2020: Ari Waldman, Northeastern Law News Announcement, “Professor Waldman Launches Legally Queer.”
- June 12, 2020: Woodrow Hartzog, “Overwhelming Support for Banning Face Surveillance in Boston: When We Fight, We Win!,”Privacy SOS.
- June 11, 2020: Woodrow Hartzog, ACLU's Data for Justice Project “Boston City Council Hearing on Proposed Ordinance to Ban Face Surveillance.”
- June 11, 2020: Woodrow Hartzog, Reason, “Microsoft and Amazon Adopt Temporary Bans on Police Use of Their Facial Recognition Tech. That's Not Nearly Enough.”
- June 9, 2020: Woodrow Hartzog, ACLU's Data for Justice Project, “Boston City Council Hearing on Proposed Ordinance to Ban Face Surveillance.”
- June 5, 2020: Brook Baker, Health GAP, “U.S.-, China- and EU-First Nationalism and COVID-19 Technology Hoarding Push the Rest of the World to the End of the Line.”
- May 20, 2020: Woodrow Hartzog, Northeastern News, “Does Containing COVID-19 Mean Surrendering Our Privacy?”
- May 13, 2020: Brook Baker, Health GAP,“Gilead Remdesivir Licenses: Half Measures Are Not Nearly Good Enough.”
- May 12, 2020: Shalanda Baker, The Boston Globe, “Healey, Linking Air Pollution to COVID-19 Disparities, Calls for Action.”
- May 12, 2020: Woodrow Hartzog, Northeastern Law News Announcement, “Professor Hartzog and Leading Technology Scholars Oppose Facial Recognition Bill.”
- May 12, 2020: Woodrow Hartzog, LA Times, “Coronavirus Tracing Apps Are Coming. Here’s How They Could Reshape Surveillance as We Know It.”
- May 11, 2020: Brook Baker, InfoJustice, “WIPO Responds to Call to Act With New Tools on IP/COVID.”
- May 8, 2020: Brook Baker, Health GAP, “Without a Global Approach to Deadly Inequities in Access to Possible COVID-19 Treatments and Vaccines, Legislative “Fixes” Won’t Make us Safer.”
- April 29, 2020: Woodrow Hartzog, The New York Times, “A Scramble for Virus Apps That Do No Harm,”
- April 20, 2020: Brook Baker, Spotlight, “COVID-19: The Time for Pocrastination Over Patents is Over.”
- February 20, 2020: Woodrow Hartzog, Wired, “Why Europe's GDPR Magic Will Never Work in the US.”
- February 5, 2020: Woodrow Hartzog, USA Today, “Want to Take Back Your Online Privacy? 7 Easy Steps to Stop Facebook and Others From Spying on You.”
- January 23, 2020: Woodrow Hartzog, IAPP, “Will NYT's Facial-Recognition Story Sway Privacy Debate?”
- January 21, 2020: Woodrow Hartzog, “The Secretive Company That Might End Privacy as We Know It,” The New York Times.
- January 15, 2020: Claudia Haupt, German Law Journal's 20th Anniversary Speaker Series: “Can Online Speech Be Regulated?”
- January 7, 2020: Woodrow Hartzog, Future of Privacy Forum, “Award-Winning Paper: “Privacy’s Constitutional Moment and the Limits of Data Protection”.”
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- December 25, 2019: Woodrow Hartzog, The New York Times, “Think Alexa Is Too Creepy For Your Kitchen? Don’t Give It to Aunty Mary.”
- November 18, 2019: Woodrow Hartzog, The Source, “The Time for Privacy is Now.”
- November 6, 2019: Woodrow Hartzog, Vox, “Activists Want Congress to Ban Facial Recognition. So They Scanned Lawmakers’ Faces.”
- Jessica Silbey, JOTWELL, “Right of Repair in the Digital Economy.”
- October 17, 2019: Woodrow Hartzog, The New York Times, “What Happens When Employers Can Read Your Facial Expressions?”
- October 2, 2019: H.C. Robinson, Northeastern Law News Announcement, “Professor Robinson and Colleagues Awarded $1.6 Million Research Grant by NSF.”
- September 30, 2019: Woodrow Hartzog, OneZero, “Why You Can’t Really Consent to Facebook’s Facial Recognition.”
- September 24, 2019: Woodrow Hartzog, Jotwell, “Remembering Ian Kerr.”
- September 24, 2019: Woodrow Harzog, Litmus, “Internet of Thieves.”
- September 10, 2019: Jessica Silbey, Northeastern News, “Can You Actually Trademark Common Phrases Like 'Taco Tuesday'?”
- August 21, 2019: Woodrow Hartzog, Vox, “Bernie Sanders’s Call to Ban Facial Recognition Tech for Policing, Explained.”
- August 12, 2019: Jessica Silbey, Northeastern News, “A Platform for Violent Hate Speech Has Been Implicated in Three Mass Shooting. Should Regulators Step In?”
- August 9, 2019: Woodrow Hartzog, Lawfare, “The FTC Can Rise to the Privacy Challenge, but Not Without Help From Congress.”
- July 31, 2019: Woodrow Hartzog, Al Jazeera's All Hail The Algorithm Series, “Tech Addiction and the Dark Art of Persuasive Design.”
- July 19, 2019: Woodrow Hartzog, Financial Times, “Is Privacy Dead?”
- July 8, 2019: Jesscia Silbey, Discovery Podcast, “We're All Pirates.”
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- June 24, 2019: Woodrow Hartzog, The New York Times, “How E-Commerce Sites Manipulate You Into Buying Things You May Not Want.”
- May 22, 2019: Woodrow Hartzog, Northeastern News, “The Perils of Facial Recognition Technology: ‘Bad When It’s Inaccurate, but Even Worse When It’s Accurate’.”
- May 21, 2019: Jessica Silbey, Ipse Dixit Podcast, “Jessica Silbey on the Photocopier.”
- May 16, 2019: Jessica Silbey, Vox, “How Do We Know If We’re in a Constitutional Crisis? 11 Experts Explain.”
- April 17, 2019: Claudia Haupt, The Week in Health Law, “Promises and Perils."
- April 17, 2019: Woodrow Hartzog, The New York TImes, “Why You Can No Longer Get Lost in the Crowd.”
- March 28, 2019: Woodrow Hartzog, “Cute Robots, Smart Underwear, and Facial Recognition in Church: Have We Gone Too Far?,”Northeastern news (March 28, 2019).
- March 27, 2019: H.C. Robinson, Cognoscenti, “The Boeing Crashes And Managing Algorithms So They Don't Manage Us.”
- February 22, 2019: Woodrow Hartzog, The Wall Street Journal, “You Give Apps Sensitive Personal Information. Then They Tell Facebook.”
- February 4, 2019: Claudia Haupt, The Washington Post, “Judge Says Tampa Conversion Therapy Ban Violates First Amendment Free-speech Rights.”
- January 31, 2019: Woodrow Hartzog, Wired, “San Francisco Could Be First to Ban Facial Recognition Tech.”
- January 30, 2019: Woodrow Hartzog, Consumer Report,“How to Spot Manipulative 'Dark Patterns' Online.”
- January 27, 2019: Woodrow Hartzog, IAPP Videos, “Control is Not the Privacy Solution it's Made Out to Be.”
- January 26, 2019: Susan Montgomery, ABA Journal, “'Fair Use' Doctrine Should be Consistent and Protect Copyright Owners, ABA House Says.”
- January 9, 2019: Andrea Matwyshyn, Legaltech News, “The Internet of Bodies: A Conveniinent—and, Yes, Creepy—New Platform for Data Discovery.”
- January 6, 2019: Woodrow Hartzog, AdWeek, “How Worried Should You Be as Brands, Governments and Law Enforcement Embrace Facial Recognition?”
- December 29, 2018: Woodrow Hartzog, Wired, “California Could Soon Have Its Own Version of the Internet.”
- December 26, 2018: Jessica Silbey, Motherboard, “A Massive Number of Iconic Works Will Enter the Public Domain on New Year’s Eve.”
- December 21, 2018: Woodrow Hartzog, Thrive Global,“Here’s Why You Should Care That Facebook Continues to Violate Your Privacy.”
- December 5, 2018: Woodrow Hartzog, The Information, “Facebook Emails Reveal Debates Over Selling Data Access.”
- December 4, 2018: Professor Woodrow Hartzog Delivers Book Talk at Google
- December 2018: Woodrow Hartzog, Leonardo, "Review of Privacy's Blueprint: The Battle to Control the Design of New Technologies.”
- November 30, 2018: Woodrow Hartzog, c|net, “Fixing Facebook? Zuckerberg Falls Short of His New Year's Goal.”
- November 30, 2018: Woodrow Hartzog, EPIC Frontlines, “Design Influences Our Privacy Perceptions: A Talk by Woodrow Hartzog,”
- November 26, 2018: Woodrow Hartzog was invited to give the keynote address at the International Association of Privacy Professionals’ Europe Data Protection Congress in Brussels in November. His topic: “The Case Against Idealizing Control.”
- November 7, 2018: Woodrow Hartzog, Medium, “Facebook’s Failure to End ‘Public by Default’.”
- November 7, 2018: Woodrow Hartzog, Postlight,“Obscurity by Design: One thinker proposes a shift in the way we think about user privacy.”
- October 26, 2018: Claudia Haupt, Balkinization, "The Algorithm Will See You Now."
- October 18, 2018: Toni Morgan, Forbes, “Four Leaders Share Advice For Closing The Corporate Opportunity Gap For Women.”
- September 27, 2018: Woodrow Hartzog, TheNew York Review of Books, “The Known Known.”
- September 26, 2018: Woodrow Hartzog, The Atlantic, “The Always-On Police Camera.”
- August 29, 2018: Jessica Silbey, YubaNet.com “300+ Law Professors Issue Letter Urging Senators Collins and Murkowski to Vote Against Judge Brett Kavanaugh.”
- August 24, 2018: Professor Woodrow Hartzog, The Privacy Advisor Podcast,Product Design as an Exercise of Power and Manipulation.”
- August 22, 2018: Andrea Matwyshyn, The Washington Post, “The Cybersecurity 202: Tech Giants Open up About Election Cyberthreats as Specter of Regulation Looms.”
- August 6, 2018: Woodrow Hartzog, Medium, “Facial Recognition Is the Perfect Tool for Oppression.”
- July 26, 2018: Woodrow Hartzog, CNN News, “What is Amazon's ResponsibilityOver its Facial Recognition Tech?”
- July 2018: Alvin Carter III ’18, Landslide, “When New Entrepreneurs Navigate Intellectual Property: IP Matters That Really Matter in University-Based Venture Incubators.”
- July 18, 2018: Woodrow Hartzog, CNN News, “Uber Fills 'Critical' Role of Chief Privacy Officer.”
- July 13, 2018: Brook Baker, infojustice.org, “Wink, Wink: Pfizer Agrees to Roll Back Price Hikes.”
- July 6, 2018: Woodrow Hartzog, The Guardian, “Amazon: Stop Giving Dystopian Facial Recognition Tech to the Government.”
- July 6, 2018: Woodrow Hartzog, The Guardian, “Thanks to Amazon, the Government Will Soon Be Able to Track Your Face.”
- July 6, 2018: Brook Baker, infojustice.org, “Misleading Ab”Use” of Percentages in Drug Price Escalation.”
- June 21, 2018: Woodrow Hartzog, Medium, “Amazon Needs to Stop Providing Facial Recognition Tech for the Government.”
- June 4, 2018: Woodrow Hartzog, Medium, “User Agreements Are Betraying You.”
- May 22, 2018: Woodrow Hartzog, Northeastern News, “We Know You’re Not Reading All Those New Terms of Service Emails. You might Want To.”
- May 27, 2018: Andrea Matwyshyn, The Washington Post, “The Network:\ Connecting Cybersecurity Experts Across Government and Industry in an Ongoing Survey.”
- May 24, 2018: Woodrow Hartzog, WIRED, “What is GDPR and Why Should You Care?”
- May 2, 2018: Brook Baker, Health Gap, “Lies, Distortions and False Promises: The US Position on Compulsory Licenses in the 2018 Special 301 Report.”
- April 29, 2018: Woodrow Hartzog, ABC News, “How the Internet Tricks You Out of Privacy Using 'Dark Patterns' of Design.”
- April 25, 2018: Woodrow Hartzog, Los Angeles Times, “With In-Car Delivery, Amazon Tests Whether Customers Will Sacrifice Privacy for Convenience.”
- April 15, 2018: Woodrow Hartzog, Reutuers, “Facebook Fuels Broad Privacy Debate by Tracking Non-Users.”
- April 13, 2018: Jessica Silbey, Northeastern News, “Two Northeastern Professors Receive Prestigious Guggenheim Fellowships.”
- April 12, 2018: Woodrow Hartzog, PolitiFact, “Fact-checking Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's Congressional Testimony.”
- April 10, 2018: Woodrow Hartzog, USA Today, “What's at Stake for Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg as He Testifies Before Congress.”
- April 5, 2018: Northeastern's What's New Podcast,“Privacy in the Facebook Age.”
- Jessica Silbey, NUSL News Announcement, “Silbey Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship.”
- April 5, 2018: Woodrow Hartzog, Quartz, “This is How Zuckerberg’s Facebook Will Likely Get Regulated.”
- March 29, 2018: Woodrow Hartzog, The Boston Globe, “Click by Click, Drowning in Data, We Internet 'Users' Are Being Used.”
- March 28, 2018: Woodrow Hartzog, Bloomberg Law, “ Zuckerberg Agrees to Congressional Testimony.” (Audio)
- March 27, 2018: Andrea Matwyshyn, Marketplace Morning Report, “What can the Federal Trade Commission actually make Facebook do?”
- March 27, 2018: Woodrow Hartzog, Howstuffworks, “How to Win the Privacy War With Facebook.”
- March 26, 2018: Andrea Matwyshyn, The Wall Street Journal, “US, States Step Up Pressure on Facebook.”
- March 26, 2018: Woodrow Hartzog, Los Angeles TImes, “Facebook Under Scrutiny as FTC Confirms It Is Investigating Privacy Practices.”
- March 26, 2018: Woodrow Hartzog, National Journal, “Why Now? Facebook’s “Perfect Storm” Reinvigorates Old Privacy Fears.”
- March 19, 2018: Woodrow Hartzog, Motherboard ,"Cambridge Analytica's Ad Targeting Is the Reason Facebook Exists."
- March 14, 2018: Woodrow Hartzog has joined the advisory board of the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), a public interest research center in Washington, DC, that aims to protect privacy, freedom of expression and democratic values in the information age. (more)
- March 5, 2018: Woodrow Hartzog, WIRED, “Uber 'Surprised' by Totally Unsurprising Pennsylvania Data Breach Lawsuit.”
- February 28, 2018: Woodrow Hartzog, WIRED, “How to Turn off Facebook's Face Recognition Features.”
- January 24, 2018: The School of Law's Center for Law, Innovation and Creativity (CLIC) is proud to be an official sponsor of the 11th annual Computers, Privacy and Data Protection (CPDP) conference, which takes place in Brussels from January 24 to 26, 2018. The CPDP is the European Union's largest international forum for academics, practitioners, policymakers and civil society to meet and discuss issues of IT, privacy and data protection.
- January 23, 2018: Andrea Matwyshyn, Northeastern News, “Decoding the Cryptocurrency Craze.”
- January 22, 2018:"IP CO-LAB Visits Fish Richardson."
- January 11, 2018: Woodrow Hartzog, WIRED,“Chuck Johnson's Twitter Free Speech Suit is Probalby DOA.”
- January 9, 2018: Woodrow Hartzog, Northeastern News, “New Media Advocacy Master's Program will Equip Students to 'Change the World'.”
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- December 12, 2017: Andrea Matwyshyn, “Professor Matwyshyn Awarded MacCormick Fellowship.”
- December 12, 2017: Woodrow Hartzog, Future of Privacy Forum, “This Year’s Six Must-Read Privacy Papers: The Future of Privacy Forum Announces Recipients of Annual Privacy Award.”
- December 12, 2017: Kara Swanson, The Iowa Innovation, Business & Law Center, “Professor Kara Swanson Explores How Suffragists and Civil Rights Activists Used the Patent System as a Political Resource.”
- December 8, 2017: Woodrow Hartzog, Northeastern News, “Should Robots Have Rights?.”
- December 1, 2017: Andrea Matwyshyn, Knowledge@Wharton, “Uber’s Data Breach: Can the Company Course-correct?.”
- November 6, 2017: Brook Baker, “Legislation For South Africa’s New IP Policy Likely After Elections Next Year.”
- November 29, 2017: Woodrow Hartzog, Jessica Silbey and Dan Urman, Northeastern News, “SCOTUS Case Could Redefine 'Reasonable Expectation of Privacy'.”
- November 29, 2017: Woodrow Hartzog, Northeastern News, “The Story Behind the Pentagon Papers, Told by the Journalists Who Lived It.”
- November 22, 2017: Andrea Matwyshyn, CNN Tech, “Uber's massive hack: What we know.”
- November 20, 2017:Andrea Matwyshyn, Forbes, “Did Wikileaks Commit A Crime When It 'Guessed' PutinTrump.org's Password?.”
- November 15, 2017: Woodrow Hartzog, UNC School of Law, “Privacy and Safety Top Legal Issues at Police Cams Symposium.”
- November 14, 2017: Andrea Matwyshyn, Yale Law School, Hijacking Information Conference, Panel 1.
- November 8, 2017: Shalanda Baker, Northeastern News, “Professor Finds Passion in Energy Justice Law.”
- November 6, 2017: Andrea Matwyshyn, The Hill, “Hackback in Black.”
- November 1, 2017: Jessica Silbey, NU Law Review's Online Forum, “Appropriation Art and Copyright: Richard Prince is Back in Court.”
- October 18, 2017: Alvin Benjamin Carter III '18, Northeastern News, “The Entrepreneurial, Award-Winning, Kickboxing Law Student.”
- October 28, 2017: Woodrow Hartzog, Philosophical Disquisitions Episode #31, “Hartzog on Robocops and Automated Law Enforcement.”
- October 13, 2017: Jessica Silbey, Intellectual Property Jotwell, “Book review: Abhishek Nagaraj, Does Copyright Affect Reuse? Evidence from Google Books and Wikipedia.”
- September 24, 2017: Andrea Matwyshyn, The Washington Free Beacon, “Experts Say Medical Care Next Big Cyber Threat.”
- September 21, 2017: Andrea Matwyshyn, “Cyber Risk Thursday: Internet of Bodies Bodies.”
- September 11, 2017: Woodrow Hartzog, Gizmodo,“What’s the Worst That Could Happen With Huge Databases of Facial Biometric Data?.”
- September 8, 2017: Woodrow Hartzog, The Washington Post, “Why It Can Take So Long for Companies to Reveal Their Data Breaches.”
- September 6, 2017: Woody Hartzog, Northeastern News, “The Evolving Law and Rules Around Privacy, Data Security, and Robots.”
- September 6, 2017: Woodrow Hartzog, Northeastern News, “The Evolving Law and Rules Around Privacy, Data Security and Robots.”
- September 5, 2017: Shalanda Baker, CSSH Press Release, “New Professor Aims to Understand Dynamics of Energy Transition, Climate Change and Indigenous Rights.”
- September 4, 2017: Woodrow Hartzog, IAI News, “Privacy and the Dark Side of Control.”
- August 15, 2017: Woodrow Hartzog, Wired “Uber Settles with FTC Again, This Time Over 2014 Privacy Breach.”
- August 16, 2017: Woodrow Hartzog, International Business Times, “Is Your Uber Travel Data Safe? Company Faces Decades Of FTC Audits.”
- August 7, 2017: Woodrow Hartzog, Inverse.com, “How Google Glass EE Evades Privacy Questions that Doomed the Original.”
- July 24, 2017: Shalanda Baker, Clean Technnia, “Energy Justice: Addressing Social, Racial, and Economic Concerns within the Cleantech Conversation.”
- June 13, 2017: Andrea Matwyshyn, CNBC, “If Kalanick Doesn't Come Back, Then We Know Things Are Very Bad:...”
- March 2017: Kara Swanson, Isis: A Journal of the History of Science Today, “Rubbing Elbows and Blowing Smoke: Gender, Class, and Science in the Nineteenth-Century Patent Office.”
- Spring 2017: Jessica Silbey, University of Minnesota Law Review, “Heuristic Interventions in the Study of Intellectual Property.”