“Biometric information is permanent,” cautions Professor Waldman, director of NUSL's Center for Law, Information and Creativity (CLIC). "And once you give a company your #BiometricData, it could track you forever with that information.”
President Biden's budget proposal, which reverses a decades-long ban on abortion funding, is a "significant win for protecting abortion rights," writes Mackenzie Darling '22 in a piece for the Northeastern University Law Review's online forum.
“There’s an entire multi-hundred billion dollar industry of companies you’ve never heard of,” Professor Ari Ezra Waldman, director of Northeastern Law's Center for Law, Information and Creativity (CLIC), tells Slate. “Their business model is collecting info from all corners of the internet and selling it to people so they can make general conclusions about a population and advertise to it. They say that information is non-identifiable. This is another example of how it’s an utter lie.”
Listen back: On The Week in Health Law podcast, Professor Wendy Parmet discusses recent state laws reducing public health emergency powers.
“While the Commission on Unalienable Rights is officially dead, human rights attorneys and advocates must keep an eye on developments at Notre Dame,” writes Sandy Recinos ’23 who completed her fall co-op with Northeastern Law’s Program on Human Rights and the Global Economy. “No one should be lulled into thinking that the ill-conceived parts of the Unalienable Rights report will simply go away quietly.”
In an interview with MIT Sloan, Professor Shalanda Baker ’05, the new (and first-ever) deputy director of energy justice at the US Department of Energy, talks about how she develops and works with big ideas.
More state legislatures are mobilizing in anticipation of the Supreme Court’s decision on an abortion ban in Mississippi, which directly threatens the rights spelled out in Roe v. Wade. Professors Martha Davis and Jeremy Paul weigh in on the latest effort in Vermont.
“It is far beyond time to turn the page—to move on from a punishment that, while deeply rooted in our history, has never proven worthy of retention,” write Professors Michael Meltsner and Daniel Medwed in a co-authored piece for Slate.
The Pennsylvania court's controversial 2021 ruling to vacate Bill Cosby's sexual assault conviction had “nothing to do with guilt or innocence,” Professor Daniel Medwed tells People magazine. "It's really more of a reaction to what I would consider a prosecutorial misstep."
Listen back: On the Workers Comp Matters podcast, Professor Emily Spieler dismisses hype that Covid-19 will crush workers’ comp systems.