Good Monday evening. This is Daniel Allott with The Hill's Top Opinions. The idea of replacing your home key or credit card with a microchip surgically implanted between your thumb and index finger may sound like the stuff of science fiction — but some 50,000 people across the world have already done it. Such technology is fast becoming one we'll all have to grapple with, writes West Point systems engineering professor ZHANNA L. MALEKOS SMITH. So, it's best to evaluate the competing viewpoints now. Smith writes: "Chip implants are just one of the many types of emerging technologies in the Internet of Things (IoT) — an expanding digital cosmos of wirelessly connected internet-enabled devices." The evolving technology could cause health risks or be vulnerable to hackers or others who want to eavesdrop on device communications, issues which Smith explores. But it could also offer convenience to the masses and "increased mobility for people with physically limiting health conditions." Regardless, she writes, "[a]s the impact and influence of chip implants increases in the United States, it will raise complex questions for state legislatures and courts to consider, such as third-party liability for cybersecurity, data ownership rights and Americans' rights under the Fourth Amendment…" Technologists and lawmakers must be wary of the balance between innovation and abuse. But the onus cannot be on them alone. Ultimately, consumers "must understand their data rights as part of digital literacy." Read Smith's entire op-ed here. Not subscribed to The Hill's Top Opinions? Sign up here. |
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By ALAN B. MORRISON, associate dean at George Washington University Law School |
If Attorney General Garland decides against bringing criminal charges against Donald Trump, he can still file a civil case against him for inciting the Jan. 6 insurrection. That case could not send the former president to prison, but it could produce a substantial measure of accountability, which may be all that is possible in today's highly charged political climate. |
By MELISSA OHDEN, founder of Abortion Survivors Network | Forty-five years ago, in 1977, my birthmother, a 19-year-old college student, was forced to abort me at the urging of her mother, a nurse. After soaking in the toxic salt solution of the saline abortion for five days, her labor was finally successfully induced on that fifth day. Instead of expelling my dead body from her womb, as was intended and expected, I was accidentally born alive. |
By AMY K. MITCHELL, former Defense Department official, and KELLEY E. CURRIE, international human rights lawyer |
Should the U.S. continue to let the Taliban dictate the terms of engagement while it eviscerates women's rights and drags the entire country backward? Or should the U.S. instead set, and enforce, meaningful red lines with real consequences to modify the Taliban's behavior? It is a debate that has far-reaching consequences, not only for the Afghan people but also for U.S. foreign policy. |
By EUGENE R. FIDELL, adjunct professor of law at New York University |
It would be futile to suggest that the political parties declare a classified-information armistice and let bygones be bygones so the nation can be spared the distraction, expense and mutually-assured-destruction of parallel investigations. Even so, something constructive can still be done. In a nutshell: an amnesty for improperly retained classified documents. |
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