PRG News Roundup, February 15, 2023
Events: In an upcoming session (Feb 21 at 4:45pm in Furman Hall 210) of the Guarini Colloquium: Regulating Global Digital Corporations, Professor Anu Bradford will discuss her new book, “Digital…
Information Law, Policy and Digital Privacy
Events: In an upcoming session (Feb 21 at 4:45pm in Furman Hall 210) of the Guarini Colloquium: Regulating Global Digital Corporations, Professor Anu Bradford will discuss her new book, “Digital…
On February 7, PRG’s own Kathryn Taylor published a new piece building Professor Veena Dubal’s article about the gamification of gig work (discussed during the January 23 session of PRG).…
Events: JSD Fellows Stav Zeitouni and Kat Geddes are leading an upper-level reading group called “Propertizing Intangibles in the Digital Age.” The group intends to explore the changes that laws…
The use and collection of voice data in general has been in the spotlight in part due to new Microsoft voice-cloning software called VALL-E . Privacy advocates have voiced worries that the VALL-E, Apple's…
News The European Union Court of Justice invalidated a provision of the EU Anti-Money Laundering Directive that guaranteed access to information on the “real owners” of a company. Some commentators…
News Google agreed to pay $392 million to 40 states -- the largest multi-state privacy settlement in U.S. history -- in response to allegations that it broke consumer protection laws…
News A class action lawsuit was filed against Microsoft, GitHub, and OpenAI alleging large-scale copyright violations in the companies’ GitHub Copilot AI-powered coding assistant. Australia’s Labor Party introduced a privacy bill including significantly increased…
News FTC brought an action agaisnt Chegg, the education technology provider. Responding to their allegedly lax data security practices, the FTC proposed requiring the company to bolster its data security…
News Uber is rolling out a new advertising branch, which will show riders live ads during their ride using data that Uber collects from their phones. A father and son…
Events On November 2nd, NYU’s Law will be hosting a panel called “FemTech and Privacy: Striking the Balance in a Post-Dobbs Reality.” The event will take place in the Greenberg…