Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law seeks to stop California’s use of facial recognition technology for its online bar exam
ABA JOURNAL — The use of facial recognition technology with the remote bar exam could have an unlawful disparate impact on test-takers who are women or people of color, the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law wrote in a Feb. 10 demand letter, which was sent to the State Bar of California.
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UC BERKELEY SCHOOL OF LAW — President Joe Biden’s new administration has already outlined a long list of early priorities. With help from a science- and technology-focused think tank, Berkeley Law Professors Catherine Crump and Rebecca Wexler are pushing forward their policy ideas.
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THE HARVARD CRIMSON — Researchers at Harvard Law School’s Cyberlaw Clinic and International Human Rights Clinic collaborated with three human rights organizations based in Myanmar to produce a study on internet restrictions in Myanmar and Bangladesh, according to a white paper the groups published last month.
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UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI SCHOOL OF LAW — We Robot, the yearly interdisciplinary conference on the legal and policy questions relating to robots, unites those on the front lines of robot design, development, and deployment with legal policy makers and influencers in the legal and social structures in the robotic sphere.
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ABA JOURNAL — Arizona’s court system will begin utilizing Thomson Reuters’ cloud-based court exhibit and evidence sharing platform to assist with the handling of digital evidence across the state, it was announced Wednesday. The Digital Evidence Center tool will be helpful as most court hearings are held virtually due to COVID-19.
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HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY LAW NEWS — The goal of interdisciplinary tournament was to develop apps that help serve the underrepresented and change the face of dispute resolution. Law students were matched with legal experts in the areas of dispute resolution and access to justice, as well as Hofstra computer science students to help develop ideas.
Read More about Hofstra Law hosts Legal Innovation Tournament to develop apps that help serve underrepresented populations in dispute resolutionUSC Gould Law Intellectual Property and Technology Law Clinic helps startup provide protective equipment for health care workers
USC GOULD SCHOOL OF LAW — During the COVID-19 pandemic, students in USC Gould’s Intellectual Property and Technology Law Clinic (IPTLC) advised Get Us PPE, a nonprofit startup based in Massachusetts that distributes donated personal protective equipment (PPE) to hospitals across the country.
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GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY — As tech giants like Facebook and Google continue to grow, Landau discovered just how big the scope of their power is in his recently published article, “The Astounding Growth of ‘Big Tech’ and the Lack of Enforcement of the Intellectual Property, Antitrust, and Contract Laws.”
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UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI SCHOOL OF LAW — Apple CEO Tim Cook has been tweeting recently touting Caribu, the Miami-based, Miami Law Startup Practicum client app developer that “enables immersive, activity-rich video calls, allowing families and friends to stay close even from afar.”
Read More about University of Miami Law Startup Practicum assists app developersLaw graduates say Florida Bar Exam software compromised computers
ABC NEWS — Law school graduates in Florida were required to download software to take the bar exam virtually amid coronavirus — and a number of them now say they encountered significant data breaches, including, in some cases, attempted hacks on bank accounts because of the software.
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