Britain’s Court of Appeals held Tuesday that the South Wales Police Force’s use of facial recognition technology violates human rights and data protection laws. The South Wales Police Force (SWP) uses automated facial recognition technology (AFR) to determine whether two facial images show the same person. AFR Locate automatically takes faces from live camera feed [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Tuesday rejected a district court judge’s antitrust judgment against Qualcomm Inc. The appeals court found that the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) had not shown that Qualcomm engaged in illegal monopolization. Qualcomm has contributed to CDMA and LTE cellular standards. It patents and licenses its innovations, [...]

2020 has been one hell of a year for all of us, and for once bar applicants aren’t left out of the summer action. Lucky us. A global pandemic, important social changes, homeschooled kids, housemates loudly participating in Zoom meetings from the living room, family members filming TikTok videos of their bread baking efforts from [...]

The head of the UN’s Independent Investigative Mechanism for Myanmar (IIMM) said Monday that Facebook has not shared evidence of “serious international crimes” relating to its investigation into military abuses in Myanmar. Nicholas Koumjian, head of the UN body collecting evidence of the most serious international crimes and violations of international law for the purpose of [...]

Students entering their first year of law school are frequently shocked by the feedback they receive on the first assignment they turn in for their introductory Legal Writing course. Often, these students come from a background in journalism, are former English or history majors, and have generally received better than average grades in their writing [...]

The US Supreme Court declined Monday to halt a lower court’s ruling that permits colleges to compensate student athletes for education-related expenses. This antitrust litigation originated in the US District Court for the Northern District of California, where it was determined that student athletes who participate in Football Bowl Subdivision football and Division I basketball [...]

Chief Justice John Roberts held in his recent majority opinion in Dep’t of Homeland Security v. Regents of the Univ. of California that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) under President Trump did not employ “reasoned decisionmaking” when it rescinded the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, which had accorded a hold on [...]

To Americans, TikTok means many things. For some, it is only an onomatopoeia. To others, it is the defining social media app of their generation. For Republicans and Democrats, it may be the one foe that can actually unite the two parties. But the policy world should let it act as a catalyst for a [...]

Recently a Canadian court threw out the Safe Third Country Agreement (STCA) with the USA because the detention centers in the USA violate the human rights of refugees. This pact compels the refugees seeking asylum in Canada through the US-Canadian border to first seek asylum in the USA. This pact was challenged last year by [...]

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) outlined the need for Congress to update and improve the Administrative Procedure Act (APA) in a report Tuesday. The APA governs the procedures that agencies must follow when they regulate private parties. It has remained largely unchanged since its enactment in 1946. The DOJ called for an update to [...]