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- Bringing Dark Patterns to Light
Government Record · 2022
Federal Trade Commission staff
The staff report discusses design practices that induce false beliefs, hide or delay material information, impose unauthorized charges, or obscure privacy choices.
- Bringing Dark Patterns to Light: Staff Report
Government Record · 2022
Federal Trade Commission
FTC staff report, September 2022: "dark patterns" are design tricks that push users into choices they would not otherwise make, and the report shows how common…
- Carpenter v. United States, 585 U.S. 296
Court Filing · 2018
Supreme Court of the United States
The Court held acquisition of seven days or more of historical cell-site location information was a Fourth Amendment search generally requiring a warrant. It expressly did…
- CBD Decision II/11: Access to Genetic Resources (1995)
Government Record · 1995
Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity
The treaty parties reaffirmed that human genetic resources are not included within the framework of the Convention on Biological Diversity.
- CDC: COVID-19 Vaccine Myths and Facts (2023, archived)
Government Record · 2023
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
The CDC's archived statement that COVID-19 vaccines do not change or interact with your DNA in any way.
- Changes in American Children’s Time, 1997–2003
Peer-Reviewed Study · 2009
Sandra L. Hofferth
For 1997–2003, Hofferth reports declines in outdoor participation and time, but playing participation for ages 6–8 was 93% in 1997 and 94% in 2003.
- Chile Law 21.383: Neurorights Constitutional Amendment (2021)
Government Record · 2021
Republic of Chile
Chile amended its constitution in 2021 to protect brain activity and the information derived from it.
- COMIRNATY Prescribing Information, 2024-2025 Formula
Government Record · 2024
FDA; BioNTech Manufacturing GmbH
The Comirnaty label warns of increased risks of myocarditis and pericarditis, highest in males 12 through 17.
- Complaint for Permanent Injunction, Monetary Judgment, and Other Relief, United States v. Ring LLC
Court Filing · 2023
Federal Trade Commission
The complaint alleges overly broad employee and contractor access and security failures, including compromises affecting more than 55,000 U.S. customers.
- Computer & Communications Industry Association v. Uthmeier, No. 25-11881
Court Filing · 2026
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
The Eleventh Circuit found associational standing, rejected Younger abstention, held HB 3 likely content-neutral and likely to satisfy intermediate scrutiny, and rejected the facial challenge.
- Congressional Record Daily Digest, July 30, 2024
Government Record · 2024
U.S. Congress
The Senate passed the combined S.2073 Kids Online Safety and Privacy Act by 91–3. The measure did not become law. The earlier S.1409 likewise did not…
- Convention on Biological Diversity (1992)
Government Record · 1992
United Nations Conference on Environment and Development
The UN treaty on genetic resources: national governments control access to their genetic resources, with consent and benefit-sharing rules. A later decision excludes human genetic resources…
- DARPA: Human Memory Prosthesis (RAM, 2018)
Government Record · 2018
DARPA
DARPA's Restoring Active Memory program, aimed at a fully implantable neural interface to help form and recall memories.
- DARPA: Implantable Neural Dust (2016)
Government Record · 2016
DARPA
DARPA's 2016 report on DARPA-funded UC Berkeley neural dust: millimeter-sized sensors, powered and read by ultrasound, implanted in the muscles and nerves of rats.
- DARPA: In Vivo Nanoplatforms
Government Record · 2016
DARPA
DARPA's program for nanoparticle-based platforms put into the body for continuous monitoring that can be read from outside.
- DARPA: Nonsurgical Neural Interfaces (N3, 2018)
Government Record · 2018
DARPA
DARPA's 2018 announcement of N3, which seeks nonsurgical interfaces that can read from and write to the brain. DARPA's vision: a warfighter controlling things with his…
- DARPA: Self-Healing Body and Mind (ElectRx, 2015)
Government Record · 2015
DARPA
DARPA's ElectRx program to use the body's peripheral nervous system to monitor health and treat disease.
- Department of Justice Weaponization Working Group Report
Government Record · 2026
U.S. Department of Justice
The report reproduces Attorney General Garland’s October 4, 2021 memorandum and criticizes the 2021 process. The memorandum distinguishes protected debate from threats and intimidation.
- Diamond v. Chakrabarty, 447 U.S. 303 (1980)
Court Filing · 1980
U.S. Supreme Court
The Supreme Court ruled 5 to 4 that a live, human-made microorganism can be patented.
- Directive 98/44/EC on Biotechnological Inventions, Articles 5-6
Government Record · 1998
European Parliament and Council
The EU biotech patent law says the human body and the simple discovery of its elements, including gene sequences, cannot be patented, and bans patents on…
- EPO Board of Appeal Decision T 1553/22 (2024)
Court Filing · 2024
EPO Boards of Appeal
A 2024 European Patent Office appeal decision holding that human-animal chimeras are excluded from patents if the invention as a whole offends human dignity.
- EPO Rule 28: Exceptions to Patentability
Government Record · 2020
European Patent Office
The European Patent Office rule on exceptions to patentability, including plants and animals produced only by essentially biological processes.
- Evening use of light-emitting eReaders negatively affects sleep, circadian timing, and next-morning alertness
Peer-Reviewed Study · 2014
Anne-Marie Chang, Daniel Aeschbach, Jeanne F. Duffy, and Charles A. Czeisler
Twelve adults completed a randomized crossover protocol comparing roughly four hours of iPad reading before bedtime for five evenings with print reading. Dim-light melatonin onset was…
- Event 201: A Global Pandemic Exercise (2019)
Document · 2019
Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, World Economic Forum, and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Johns Hopkins, the World Economic Forum and the Gates Foundation ran Event 201, a fictional coronavirus pandemic exercise, on October 18, 2019.