PRG News Roundup, March 2, 2022
Google has temporarily disabled Google Maps features in Ukraine that provide live information about how busy roads and places are following the recent invasion of Russian forces.A Virginia court refused to…
PRG News Roundup, February 23, 2022
On February 23d, the Privacy Research Group discussed the following current events: The European Commission has put forth a proposal this week on industrial data regulation. The proposal, called the…
PRG News Roundup, February 16, 2022
During the third PRG meeting of the Spring 2022 semester, the following topics were discussed: This week the UN convened an international committee of government experts to conduct preliminary negotiations…
PRG News Roundup, February 9, 2022
During the third PRG meeting of the Spring 2022 semester, the following topic were discussed. This week, the Algorithmic Accountability Act of 2022 has been introduced. It’s a bill requiring…
PRG News Roundup, February 2, 2022
During the second PRG meeting of the Spring 2022 semester, the following topics were discussed. In Germany, Twitter is challenging a provision in an anti-hate speech regulation. The regulation mandates…
PRG News Roundup, January 26, 2022
Welcome to the Spring 2022 from the Privacy Research Group student fellows! The first PRG meeting was January 26 and we covered the following news items: On the legal front,…
PRG News Roundup, December 1, 2021
The Privacy Law Scholars Conference is inviting submission of abstracts for its 15th annual conference (PLSC 2022), which will be held in person on Thursday and Friday, June 2 and…
PRG News Roundup, November 17, 2021
The Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University filed an amicus brief in a case challenging a Florida law limiting the power of social media companies to moderate speech on…
PRG News Roundup, November 10, 2021
A bipartisan group of House lawmakers has introduced the filter bubble Transparency Act which requires companies like Meta (then known as ‘Facebook’) and YouTube to offer a version of their platforms that…
PRG News Roundup, November 3, 2021
Upcoming Events Guarini Colloquium: Regulating Global Digital Corporations – Monday November 8, 2021, 17:20 – 18:20. In this NYU Law School colloquium, Hong Shen, the author of Alibaba: Infrastructuring Global…