Volume 19

The Digitization of the Carceral State: The Troubling Narrative Around Police Usage Of Facial Recognition Technology Sara E. Yates[1]* Print Version: The Digitization of the Carceral State- The Troubling Narrative Around Police Usage Of Facial Recognition Technology The technological veil conceals the reproduction of inequality and enslavement. -Herbert Marcuse[2] This Note applies a racial social […]

Regulating the Social Puppeteers: § 230 & Marginalized Speech Kylie Thompson[1]* Print Version: Regulating the Social Puppeteers- § 230 & Marginalized Speech   Introduction 462 I. What is § 230? 465 A. Legislative History 465 B. Expansive Scope 466 C. Threading the § 230 needle 468 II. The Power of Social Platforms 471 A. Harassment &

Personal Information and Artificial Intelligence: Website Scraping and the California Consumer Privacy Act Brian Stuenkel[1]* Print Version: Personal Information and Artificial Intelligence- Website Scraping and the California Consumer Privacy Act This note presents a hypothetical in which an upstart technology firm scrapes public-facing webpages and websites, scooping up individuals’ personal identifying information (PII) including names, addresses,

Airline Commercial Use of EU Personal Data in the Context of the GDPR, British Airways and Schrems II W. Gregory Voss[1]* Print Version: Airline Commercial Use of EU Personal Data in the Context of the GDPR, British Airways and Schrems II In July 2019, shortly after the end of the first year of application of

A Textualist Interpretation of the Visual Artists Rights Act of 1990 Brian L. Frye[1]* Print Version: A Textualist Interpretation of the Visual Artists Rights Act of 1990 Philosophy may not interfere with the actual use of language, it can only describe it. —Ludwig Wittgenstein[2] For numberless generations, jurisprudes waged total war in the conflict among

You Can’t Be Serious: Problems of Facticity and ‘Plausible Nonliteral Assertions’ in U.S. Defamation Law Emily Erickson[1]* Matthew D. Bunker** Print Version: YOU CAN’T BE SERIOUS- PROBLEMS OF FACTICITY AND ‘PLAUSIBLE NONLITERAL ASSERTIONS’ IN U.S. DEFAMATION LAW   Introduction 343 I. Roots of the Protection for Opinion, Rhetorical Hyperbole, and Satire 346 II. PNAs in

Hacking Antitrust: Competition Policy and the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act Charles Duan[1]* Print Version: Hacking Antitrust- Competition Policy and the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act The Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, a federal computer trespass statute that prohibits accessing a computer “without authorization or exceeding authorized access,” has often been criticized for clashing with

Hacking the SEAMs: Elevating Digital Autonomy and Agency for Humans Richard S. Whitt[1]* “Certainty hardens our minds against possibility.” –Ellen Langer The time has come to challenge the predominant paradigm of the World Wide Web. We need to replace controlling “SEAMs” with empowering “HAACS.” Over the past two decades, Web platform ecosystems have been employing

Employment in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: A Call for a Statutory Solution Brandon Ward[1]* Introduction Like the automobile, computer, and the internet defined the twentieth century, artificial intelligence (AI) will come to define the twenty-first century as it branches out to influence all aspects of humanity. One area that undoubtably will be shaped by

Masters of Their Own Domains: Property Rights as a Bulwark Against DNS Censorship Nicholas Nugent[1]* It is increasingly becoming the practice of domain name system (DNS) intermediaries to seize domain names used by lawful websites for violating acceptable use policies related to offensive content or hate speech. Website hosting companies and social media platforms, entities