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
Expert on race and technology, Mutale Nkonde, will co-lead the upcoming Moral Labyrinth workshop led by CLIC artist-in-residence, Sarah Newman. In response to the global response to confront racial injustice, the workshop's scope has also been expanded to include an
Dear CLIC Community, In major cities across the country, protestors are raising their voices against the injustice of police brutality, white supremacy and the systemic failure of our law and society to protect all people equally. In the middle of a global
NOTE: INFORMATION ABOUT THIS WORKSHOP HAS BEEN UPDATED. READ OUR POST ABOUT IT HERE. On June 12, 2020, CLIC's Artist-in-Residence (AIR), Sarah Newman, will host a virtual interactive workshop that explores morality, ethics and art in the COVID era. Students,
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
05.08.20 — The Center for Law, Innovation and Creativity (CLIC) at Northeastern University School of Law is part of a team that recently received a Northeastern University TIER 1 Award, which provides support for interdisciplinary research, seeking to stimulate exciting and innovative directions
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
On February 11, 2020 we invited Dr. Fumio Shimpo, Professor at the Graduate School of Media and Governance at Keio University and a Commissioner for International Academic Exchange in Japan, and Tiffany Li, visiting clinical professor at Boston University,