Professor Woodrow Hartzog and RIT's Evan Selling submit testimony in support of Boston's Face Ban Ordinance. Dear City Councilors, We are writing in support of the ordinance banning face surveillance in Boston presented by Councilors Wu and Arroyo. We are professors of law and philosophy, respectively, who have been researching and writing about the risks of facial recognition technologies for over seven years. Our testimony draws from our
In March, a federal judge in D.C. ruled that violating website terms of use is not a federal crime under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) in a pre-enforcement constitutional challenge filed by the ACLU on behalf of researchers
05.04.20 — Professor Ari Ezra Waldman, a leading authority on law and technology, will join Northeastern University’s faculty on July 1 as Professor of Law and Computer Science with a joint appointment at the School of Law and Khoury College of
Facial recognition technology poses a “fatal consent problem” according to CLIC faculty and Northeastern Law Professor Woodrow Hartzog. Last month, Hartzog published an article, co-authored with Rochester Institute of Technology Professor Evan Selinger, in the Loyola Law Review, calling for
CLIC faculty have joined a global community of 140+ researchers, educators and students as petitioners in a letter urging Francis Gurry, Director General for the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), to provide increased guidance to WIPO’s 190+ Member States on
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g33C33L4hdk&app=desktop Associate Professor of Law and Political Science Claudia E. Haupt joined the Northeastern faculty in 2018. Professor Haupt’s current research is situated at the intersection of the First Amendment, health law and torts in the context of professional speech. Her further
In February, CLIC will host scholar and Japan's foremost expert on data protection, Fumio Shimpo. Dr. Shimpo will join NUSL's own Professor Woodrow Hartzog for a series of events and lectures, including a lecture and fireside chat on February 11,
CLIC Faculty, Brook K. Baker, discusses the issues with a recent bill to make medicines more accessible in the U.S.. Truly corrective actions on drug pricing will bring life-saving benefit to consumers in the U.S. and globally Although Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s bill
September 20, 2019 | Brook BakerAccess to Medicines On September 19, 2019, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi released the “Lower Drug Costs Now Act of 2019” (HR 3). Excessive drug pricing is a major factor obstructing access to life-saving treatment in the Global