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FTC Issues First-Ever Orders Restricting Data Broker Industry
Jan. 31, 2024—By Alvin Zhang Earlier this month, the FTC issued its first-ever bans on the sales of sensitive user data by data broker companies.[1] In orders issued on January 9 and 18, the agency barred digital marketing companies OutLogic (formerly known as X-Model Social) and InMarket Media from sharing, selling, or transferring their users’ sensitive location...
Google’s Digital Advertising: A Showcase of Challenge to the Sherman Act Section Two from Big Tech Data Aggregation
Jan. 22, 2024—By Maggie Ren Today, the currency we use to pay for the services of these tech companies is not money, but instead it is data. [1] Google, a technology giant, has leveraged its data aggregation capabilities and algorithms driven by artificial intelligence (AI) to become a dominant force in digital marketing.[2] Google provides products and...
Reconsidering the Merits of a Federal Data Privacy Law
Jan. 16, 2024—By Rachel Davis Americans have expressed growing concerns about the extent of data collection, with many feeling that the security of their information has diminished over time.[1] These concerns are well-founded. The increasing use of artificial intelligence (AI) in major sectors of the economy—banking, healthcare, commerce, education—has exacerbated the need for robust data privacy protections...
The Private Health Information You Share with Mental Health Apps is Not So Private
Jan. 16, 2024—By Phoebe Hebson According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, large breaches of health care data exposed the medical information of over eighty-eight million individuals in the first ten months of 2023 alone.[1] Health data can be lucrative for hackers–TechCrunch in December reported on a hacker offering to sell 300 terabytes of...
The Case for Establishing a Collective Perspective to Address the Harms of Platform Personalization
Jul. 28, 2023—Ayelet Gordon-Tapiero, Alexandra Wood, & Katrina Ligett | 25 Vand. J. Ent. & Tech. L. 635 (2023). Personalization on digital platforms drives a broad range of harms, including misinformation, manipulation, social polarization, subversion of autonomy, and discrimination. In recent years, policy makers, civil society advocates, and researchers have proposed a wide range of interventions to...