"It is an especially cruel, harmful thing that protests about police brutality are met with what? More police brutality," said David B. Owens, another civil rights attorney who is also representing Avery's family.
Due to a legal principle called qualified immunity, the bar to hold police accountable for violence or even killing a civilian is quite high. Jeff Feldman is a professor at the ºìÌÒÊÓƵ; he joined Ross Reynolds to discuss the history of how police have been shielded from liability.
Many people treat video footage, regardless of where it comes from, as objective evidence, says Mary Fan, a professor at the ºìÌÒÊÓƵ who studies cameras and police encounters. “The temptation is to see it as a window into what really happened,” she says. But that’s not the case: the place the video comes from has a big impact on how people interpret it.
The Supreme Court of Washington, which last month rejected calls for an emergency diploma privilege, reversed course at the behest of law graduates and law school administrators.
Peter Nicolas, professor of law at the UW, explains how the Supreme Court ruling protecting LGBTQ from workplace discrimination could have a broader reach.
“Just knowing who the contacts of a target are can expand an investigation,” said Mary Fan, a law professor at the University of Washington.
Local leaders call the current demonstrations a new era for civil rights.
Most states are giving the cold shoulder to smartphone apps, though some developers think there's still a chance for them to catch on.
Over the past couple of weeks, more misinformation has been spreading online, specifically about the killing of George Floyd by police, and the nationwide protests that followed. Ryan Calo, associate professor of law at the UW and an investigator with the UW Center for an Informed Public, is interviewed.
There isn’t enough data to say with certainty how effective body-worn cameras are at reducing misconduct, according to Mary Fan, a University of Washington law professor and author of Camera Power: Proof, Policing, Privacy, and Audiovisual Big Data. The research is as young as the technology itself.
At first glance, using an app on your smartphone to track whether you’ve been in close contact with people who have contracted COVID-19 seems like a perfectly plausible way to use technology to help tackle a global health crisis. There’s just one problem — data privacy. Ryan Calo, associate professor of law at the UW, is quoted.
Automated systems are being deployed around the country, as states, cities and towns under budget pressure look to cut costs. But while many such systems function as intended, a number are rife with problems, inviting public outcry and years-long lawsuits over issues like discrimination and civil liberties violations — even endangering people’s lives. Ryan Calo, associate professor of law at the UW, is quoted.
Apple and Google are releasing technology Wednesday to help public health authorities detect the spread of coronavirus infections, though some privacy and public health experts fear the company’s efforts could complicate an already disjointed response to the pandemic. Ryan Calo, associate professor of law at the UW, is quoted.
It’s nearing the end of the year for most high school seniors. What’s supposed to be an occasion marked by the pomp and circumstance of formal dances and graduations has fizzled into weeks of isolation and missed milestones. And now, another disappointment: canceled graduation night parties and denied refunds. Jane Winn, professor of law at the UW, is interviewed.
Apple and Google on Wednesday released long-awaited smartphone technology to automatically notify people if they might have been exposed to the coronavirus. Ryan Calo, associate professor of law at the UW, is quoted.
“We find ourselves in a position where we know technology and information will have a role,” Ryan Calo, an associate professor at the UW School of Law, said, citing rapid testing and disease modeling. “But at the same time we should be very, very suspicious when someone claims there is a simple solution.”
“Either you have a system unlikely to help people navigate their world, to leave their house and feel safe, or you have privacy trade-offs.” said University of Washington Law School professor Ryan Calo, who recently co-authored a study that found widespread public discomfort with contact tracing technology.
Last week, the AI-powered furry art site thisfursonadoesnotexist ignited a fandom firestorm while also highlighting an important debate about digital art. Zahr Said, professor of law at the UW, is quoted.
Writing for the nonprofit Brookings Institution, Ashkan Soltani, a former senior advisor to the U.S. Chief Technology Officer, along with Ryan Calo and Carl Bergstrom — a law professor at the University of Washington and a professor of biology at the University of Washington, respectively — argue that in addition to privacy concerns, contact-tracing apps lend themselves to varying forms of abuse.
“There’s a role for technology to help with manual contact tracing, but there’s no way to do that that I’ve seen without privacy trade-offs,” Calo said. “You can’t get out of a pandemic with a clever app.”
With Apple and Google announcing more details for their exposure notification API, it’s clear coronavirus contact tracing apps are coming. But it’s not clear people will use them.
The state Supreme Court recently declined to review Seattle’s tax-the-rich case. Here's how we got here — and where we might go next.
