by | Mar 8, 2021 | Freedom of Expression, Podcast, Privacy and Technology
On this episode, Executive Editor Samantha Neal speaks with Evelyn Douek, a lecturer on law and SJD candidate at Harvard Law School, about digital free speech: to what extent it should be regulated online, who the “arbiters of truth” are and why it matters, the threat...
by | Nov 13, 2019 | Amicus, Criminal Justice, Policing and Law Enforcement, Privacy and Technology
Technology frequently progresses faster than legal institutions are able to keep up. Facial surveillance – the use by police and other entities of technology which can recognize people and identify them by their faces – is one such area. Facial recognition...
by | Oct 3, 2019 | Amicus, Criminal Justice, Policing and Law Enforcement, Privacy and Technology
The arrest of the infamous Golden State killer in April 2018 prompted controversy over law enforcement’s use of genealogy databases. The California case ran cold decades ago, but a well-preserved DNA sample was uploaded by detectives into the public database,...
by clemaire | Apr 22, 2018 | Amicus, Congress, Guest Author, Privacy and Technology, Voting and Elections Rights
Guest Post by David Meyerson, @dbmeyerson, a Software Engineer at Microsoft and co-teacher of computer science in Boston Public Schools. Personal data from 87 million Facebook users in the U.S. was used without those users’ consent to help political consulting firm...
by cmorgan | Apr 12, 2018 | Amicus, Criminal Justice, Education & Youth, Poverty and Economic Justice, Privacy and Technology, Racial Justice, Sex Equality
Criminal Legal System Our unemployment rate fails to account for mass incarceration. Mass incarceration disproportionately affects black communities. Unemployment data fails to account for this, which makes the disparity between black and white men in employment...
by pvanderslice | Dec 8, 2017 | Amicus, National Security, Policing and Law Enforcement, Privacy and Technology
As our nation around the world struggle with the threat of terrorist attacks and violence from both foreign and domestic sources, we will be forced to engage with the ever-present tension between security and civil liberties. In a 2001 article in the Atlantic,...
