Phone: (206) 685-0183
Email: jevanh@uw.edu
B.A., History of Art, Cornell University, 2016 M.P.S., Information Science, Cornell University, 2017 J.D., University of Washington School of Law, 2020
Artificial Intelligence — Law and Technology — Privacy
| Course Number | Course Name |
|---|---|
| LAW E 554 |
Technology Law And Public Policy Clinic |
Such debates get complicated fast. If companies use face recognition technology, how should they notify customers? What rights should people have to opt out, and how easy should that process be? Should the data ever be given or sold to third parties? These were some of the questions that came up during discussion of a Washington state privacy bill that failed earlier this year, according to Jevan Hutson, a technology policy researcher at the University of Washington. The two sides were unable to agree on how strong the privacy restrictions should be.
he FTC’s recent settlement (Order) with Rite Aid for discriminatory use of facial surveillance breaks ground by expanding the penalty of algorithm disgorgement to third parties. Jevan Hutson is quoted.
The FTC began to regulate AI fairness last month, seizing on an automated facial surveillance scandal at pharmacy chain Rite Aid.
“It is now clear going into the new year that the FTC is going to incorporate model deletion into privacy security and AI related orders,” Hutson said. “Reasonable algorithm fairness practices are going to be important to organization to undertake if they wish to avoid model deletion.”
As Jevan Hutson and Ben Winters describe in their legal analysis, the FTC has ordered model disgorgement in five separate instances: In the Matter of Everalbum, In the Matter of Cambridge Analytica, USA v. Kurbo Inc. and WW International, FTC v. Ring, USA v. Edmodo.
"Some of the OGs in the field are here, queer and ready to support you. That's an exciting thing," Hutson said. "This is a diverse and amazing community of folks doing cool work."
Washington state’s consumer privacy act also enables state judges to triple damages and legal fees resulting from such a lawsuit. “That is a significant risk,” says Jevan Hutson, a legal associate and data-privacy expert in Washington. “The penalties for noncompliance could be impactful.”
Privacy lawyer and scholar Jevan Hutson’s initial research focused on dating platforms and ethical considerations that go into shaping architectures for intimacy....
Jevan Hutson, director of the Technology Law & Public Policy Clinic, on machine unlearning’s implications for privacy law.
The University of Washington School of Law celebrates strategic growth, welcoming 10 new faculty members and four new deans into the 2024–25 academic year.
The Clinical Law program is pleased to announce three incoming clinic directors: Jevan Hutson for Technology Law and Public Policy, Jeannine Lemker for the Entrepreneurial Law Clinic and Nicole McGrath for the Tribal Court Public Defense Clinic.
