Facebook Wars II: Attack of the Privacy Violations
Alexander Glossman is a J.D. Candidate, 2021 at the NYU School of Law. On Wednesday, January 29th, Facebook disclosed that it had settled a class-action lawsuit in Illinois for $550…
Big Data Industry, Personal Information, And Online Market Regulation
Mario Cistaro is an L.L.M candidate, 2020 at NYU School of Law. The provision of free services by online platforms in exchange for the personal information of its users has…
hiQ Labs, Inc. v. LinkedIn Corp.: Scratching the Surface of Web Scraping
Neha Mehta is a J.D. Candidate, 2021 at NYU School of Law. Introduction to Data Scraping It’s hard to imagine how the Internet would function without web scraping. Web scraping,…
Body Cameras, Law Enforcement, and Privacy Law
Advocacy of body camera policing reform has been growing in the United States in response to a widespread and increasing distrust of law enforcement among minority communities.[1] Body camera reform…
Genetic Privacy After Carpenter
In Carpenter v. United States, the Supreme Court tackles the issue of whether individuals still retain an expectation of privacy in their location information when they “share” that information with…
Dark Patterns: We May or May Not Realize We’re Being Tricked
Have you ever received a bunch of annoying promotional e-mails and let them stuck in your inbox because you hardly find the “unsubscribe” button in the e-mail? Or have you…
The Impact of the GDPR
After four years of preparation and debate the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) was finally approved by the EU Parliament on April 14, 2016, coming in to effect on…
Biometric Facial Recognition for Unlocking iPhone – Does it Violate the Fifth Amendment?
With the overwhelming numbers of criminal mischief, the government seems to seek resourceful leeway that may lead to the findings of valuable evidence in an investigation. Among all feasible scenarios,…
The Future of Biometric Data Privacy Law and BIPA
Biometric Technology Industry Biometrics encompasses a wide variety of technologies, which aim to identify a person’s identity based on unique, unchanging physical or behavioral characteristics. Biometric technologies include fingerprint recognition,…
Pokémon Go’s Virtual Trespass Suit Reaches Settlement Agreement
Can a video game company be held liable for placing virtual items on private property? The answer is – maybe. On February 14, 2019, the developer of the mobile game…