Students from Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law’s Intellectual Property Law Society (IPLS) held a presentation on Artificial Intelligence (AI) Inventions and Patenting on October 28th for the purpose of collecting students’ thoughts on the regulation of AI inventions. Members…
First, a caveat: I do not exactly have an Instagram. It is true that I am in possession of a blank account that I infrequently use to keep tabs on a whopping 28 followers, but I nevertheless often “like” a…
The term “Open Source” is often associated with the vibrant tech community of developers and entrepreneurs. Thanks to the popularity and the media coverage of software tech startup companies, the public usually treats “Open Source” synonymously with “Open Source Software.”…
“My Friend Cayla” might be a spy, according to the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) and other advocacy groups who filed a complaint about the doll’s data collection risks with the FTC in December.[1] Cayla uses Bluetooth technology to connect…
“I guarantee you there is not one person, not one voter of any political stripe anywhere in America who asked for this. No one in America stood up in a town hall and said, ‘Sir, I demand you let somebody…
Opining consumers have helped spawn a whole new interactive medium in the e-commerce world, where shoppers can read and post reviews of products or services in various online forums. More so, it’s nearly impossible to peruse a retail website, such…
Traditionally, employers have issued company-owned devices to their employees. This traditional approach has allowed employers to have more control of and access to employees’ devices. Currently, employers are generally free to monitor its employees’ text messages or online activity for…
Chances are, if you owned a VIZIO TV from February 2014 to late 2016 and the default “Smart Interactivity” feature was enabled, your TV was transmitting second-by-second information back to VIZIO about what you were watching–be it from your cable…
On July, 2016, Chris Correa, the former Scouting Director of the St. Louis Cardinals, was sentenced to 46-months in prison, and fined approximately $300,000.00, for hacking the Houston Astro’s database in 2013-2014.[1] He pled guilty to “five criminal counts for…
“Alexa, get me a box of pens, a legal pad, and a Diet Coke!” While this might sound like an order that a hawkish partner at a law firm might bark at a young and innocent associate, this is actually…
No Man’s Sky is an action-adventure survival video game in which a player is free to explore an uncharted universe comprised of 18 quintillion planets, nearly each one unique with procedurally generated terrain, flora, and fauna.[1] The game, published by…
Apple is accustomed to being a controversial pioneer in the tech world. Yet, a patent it was recently awarded is garnering more than the usual interest, and not for positive reasons. The patent entitled “[s]ystems and methods for receiving infrared…
