Short Reads
The global pandemic has both increased the demand for contactless biometric technologies and pushed for innovation in this industry. This increase in demand and innovation of biometric technology has amplified the inherent data privacy concerns in the technology, making the need for a national biometric law evident.
Over the past year, COVID-19 has devastated small businesses across the country. For small businesses owned by minorities and women, the economic impact has been particularly salient. Now, small businesses have another obstacle to face: Section 1071 of the Dodd-Frank Act. Though Section 1071 is well-intentioned and aims to identify inequities in small business lending, its effects may prove to do more harm than good.
In today’s digital age, we can’t live without technology. Printed paper is dying because everything we do is online. Our online presence is a digital copy of who we are. Electronic data that we put online, however, is not just for us to see and use, and it would be naïve of us to believe that anything we put online is entirely private and only viewed by us. So, who else is getting access to the digital copy of ourselves?
