The BTLJ Podcast

Hosts Matt Sardo '23, Ibrahim Hinds '23, and Ximena Velazquez-Arenas '23 cover the increasing privacy concerns surrounding COVID-19 tracing apps, Senate hearings with Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg and Twitter's Jack Dorsey, and the Federal Aviation Authority's clearance of Boeing's 737 MAX to resume flights in the U.S.

We discuss adversarial machine learning, the CFAA, and AI bias with Prof. Ryan Calo (Professor of Law at the University of Washington School of Law) and David O'Hair (associate at Knobbe Martens), co-authors of “Is Tricking a Robot Hacking?” from our Journal's Volume 34, Issue 3.

Hosts: Haley Broughton '23 and Allan Holder '21

Hosts Kavya Dasari '23, Meg Sullivan '23, and Jonathan Baer '23 cover Zoom's settlement with the FTC, an antitrust case against Amazon in the EU, and the Department of Justice's challenge of Visa's Acquisition of Plaid, a fintech start-up.

Hosts Ximena Welazquez-Arenas '23 and Diming Xu '23 cover the DOJ's antitrust suit against Google, Uber's response to California's recently-passed Proposition 22, and the United States' charges against Russian hackers in connection with several global cyberattacks.

Hosts Allan Holder '21 and Kavya Dasari follow up on our coverage of Epic Games' antitrust suit against Apple, and cover recent developments regarding Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, a privacy lawsuit filed against the San Francisco Police Department, and the release of a joint statement by an international coalition of countries regarding encryption and public safety.

Hosts Ibrahim Hinds '23 and Kurt Fredrickson '23 cover recent criminal charges against the founders of one of the world's largest BitCoin exchanges, the House's antitrust report on Facebook, Google, Apple, and Amazon, and the Supreme Court copyright case between Oracle and Google.

Hosts Matt Sardo '23 and Meg Sullivan ' 23 follow up on last week's coverage of TikTok's request for an injunction to the ban of its app, and cover Epic Games' lawsuit against Apple following the companies' dispute over banning Fortnite from Apple's App Store, the EU's draft of antitrust regulations for large tech companies, Seattle's recently-passed minimum wage legislation for Uber, Lyft, and other rideshare drivers, and Anthem's multi-million dollar settlement with over forty state attorneys general.

Hosts Kurt Fredrickson '23 and Jonathan Baer '23 discuss antitrust action against Google, the latest in TikTok’s troubles with the current administration, and a data breach class action against Amazon.

Host Veronica Bognot '21 discusses Amazon’s alleged misuse of seller data, the most recent salvo in Facebook's suit against NSO Group, and the Supreme Court's ruling on whether explanations of the law are copyrightable.

Host Yexi Xu (LLM '20) tells us all about police drones in Baltimore, how Facebook and Twitter are dealing with the President's LIBERATE tweets, and Intel freeing up its IP during the crisis.