Abortions, Location Data, and the Fourth Amendment: Geofence Warrants in a Post-Roe WorldMarch, 2024by Marlaina PintoIssue 1, Printed, Volume 22-Abstract Advancements in technology have empowered law enforcement with new investigative tools, yet they have also increased their ability to invade citizens’ privacy similar to the general warrants of the eighteenth century. The Fourth Amendment was in part written to prevent an unfettered police state, with the Founders of the opinion that some criminals evading… {read more...}
The Myth of Scarcity in the Broadcasting Sector – And What It Means for Platform RegulationMarch, 2024by Pauline TrouillardIssue 1, Printed, Volume 22-Abstract Platform regulation by the state is often described as being at odds with the First Amendment. By drawing a key comparison with broadcasters’ regulation, this article shows that some forms of platform regulation are compatible with the First Amendment. Scarcity of airwaves has usually been interpreted as the main rationale used by the Supreme… {read more...}
Conference Outcomes Report: Silicon Flatirons 2022 Spectrum Policy Initiative ConferenceSeptember, 2023by Graham Stevenson, Jackson McNeal, Sean Harms, and Xelef BotanIssue 2, Printed, Volume 21-Excerpt As the importance and demand for access to the radio spectrum (“spectrum”) continues to increase, the task of identifying the “highest and best” uses of spectrum looms ever larger in the minds of regulators and stakeholders. This increasing focus is largely due in part to the reality that spectrum allocation decisions are often mired… {read more...}
Reversing Privacy Risks: Strict Limitations on the Use of Communications Metadata and Telemetry InformationSeptember, 2023by Susan Landau and Patricia Vargas LeonIssue 2, Printed, Volume 21-Excerpt In this paper, we examine private-sector collection and use of metadata and telemetry information and provide three main contributions: First, we lay out the extent to which “non-content”—the hidden parts of Internet communications (aspects the user does not explicitly enter) and telemetry—are highly revelatory of personal behavior. We show that, privacy policies notwithstanding, users … {read more...}
Healthcare Access and Equity Amidst the Rise of TelehealthOctober, 2021by Paige RobinsonDigital-Healthcare Access and Equity Amidst the Rise of Telehealth Discussions about healthcare--what services should be provided, who should receive them, and who should pay for them--have been brought to the social and political forefront of the American zeitgeist. Regardless of viewpoint, the crux of the conversation is if and how best to achieve equity in… {read more...}
Should the game stop with Gamestop?February, 2021by Eric WrightDigital-RobinHood, Reddit, Retail Investors, and the Role of Regulation In the course of a week, the share price of GameStop increased by almost 1000%, from $39 per share to around $350 at its peak. The gaming retailer did not suddenly and dramatically change its business model, nor did prospects for the chain of brick-and-mortar stores… {read more...}
Broadband: The Lifeline of InnovationOctober, 2020by Sloane DreyerDigital-Lifeline is what the name says, it is an assistance program that creates a line to the outside world necessary to live. Today, that takes the form of broadband, when it began in the 1980’s it was the landline phone. What is Lifeline? Since its inception, Lifeline has been trying to help the part of… {read more...}
Law School Memes for Edgy T14sMarch, 2020by Colleen McCroskeyDigital-"Who is intellectual property? I don't know her." The exact date of the internet’s advent continues to be debated by scholars, but the origin of one of the internet’s most popular content mediums can be traced directly back to 1976, and the publication of Richard Dawkins’ The Selfish Gene. It was in this book that… {read more...}
Zero Sum War GamesMarch, 2020by Georgia ButcherDigital-How separating soldiers from the theatre of war creates new human costs U.S. Air National Guard photo by Senior Master Sgt. Robert Shepherd On January 3rd, 2020 the United States killed Qasem Suleimani with an MQ-9 Reaper. This drone is manufactured by General Atomics and operated by the U.S. Air Force, U.S. Customs and Border… {read more...}