“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.”
Betty Francisco ’98, general counsel at Compass Working Capital and co-founder of Amplify Latinx, is profiled by Northeastern News.
Professor HC Robinson was interviewed by News@Northeastern for a story about CAMD student Kiera Perryman and her efforts to foster solidarity among black women across Northeastern.
For the first time, the nation’s highest court will hold arguments remotely this month and will make live audio of those arguments available to the public. Professor Dan Urman explains the changes and challenges of this development…
“The pandemic’s not going to last forever, but the data that’s collected from the pandemic might,” Professor Woodrow Hartzog tells News@Northeastern. “Until they feel protected, people are going to be reluctant to participate and share—and rightfully so.”
“It seems fair to say that we might try and regulate an intentional attempt to expose another person to an infectious disease,” Professor Aziza Ahmed tells Northeastern News. “But, is there a good way to hold someone accountable that can recognize the complexity of our moment in which confusion reigns? Not really.”
Professor Kara Swanson has been named as the 2020 Arthur Molella Distinguished Fellow by the Smithsonian’s Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation. While in residence at the Lemelson Center in early 2021, she will work on her project, “Inventing Citizens: Race, Gender, and Patents.”
Sharing research and discoveries among various pharmaceutical companies—trade secrets that are typically closely guarded and legally protected—would enable scientists to work together and build upon their collective knowledge, says Professor Brook Baker.
Cassandra Dechaine JD/MPH ’21 has joined a coalition of volunteers helping health departments across Massachusetts handle the COVID-19 crisis. “It’s really hard, as someone who’s in school to try to help people as much as possible, to feel like I’m not doing anything actively,” she tells News@Northeastern. “I know the local health departments are just super, super overloaded right now, so to help mitigate and help with that as much as possible really interested me.”
Community-wide responses will help to ensure “affordable water for all,” says Martha Davis, newly named University Distinguished Professor.