
On Technology, Innovation and Law
Technology is about embracing change. In today’s new media environment, creativity and artistic expression is infused with innovation. We are living in a momentous period in world history. A period where art, music, film, gaming, fashion, photography, publishing, and journalism all harken back to that great industrial age. We are witnesses to the digital revolution.
Technology, innovation and design shows such tremendous promise. Advances in medical science continues to make significant contributions around the world. However, disruption and innovation is not without risk.
I hope to highlight technology’s promise, but there’s a complicated side to technological innovation. The discussion includes the ethical use of artificial intelligence and advanced technologies. It’s a story at the intersection of new technology and the law leading us to difficult conversations involving racism, profiling, discrimination, and bias.
At a time when the prevailing view is that we are well past such evils, we may have to exercise some caution. This is where I hope to join the conversation.
I hope you will join me on this journey.
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Sally A. Vazquez Castellanos, Esq.
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Developing:
Read more: Developing:When Disinformation Drives Detention, Law Schools Must Defend Truth and Due Process. It began, as these things often do, with a rumor: that a university had disclosed a graduate student’s records to immigration authorities. The student, a protest participant, was suddenly detained. The university president—newly appointed, a woman, and operating within strict legal boundaries—said little.…
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I asked ChatGPT a question this morning:
Read more: I asked ChatGPT a question this morning:Q: Do you pay authors? A: No, ChatGPT (OpenAI) does not pay authors whose works may have been included in the training data for models like mine. OpenAI has stated that its models are trained on a mixture of licensed data, publicly available data, and data used with permission. However, many works on the internet…
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Car Dash Dashing
Read more: Car Dash DashingIf … you are experiencing pressure inside the vehicle cabin, especially while the car is on or in motion, this can be a serious and multifaceted issue. While automotive service departments may initially dismiss it as a comfort concern, cabin pressure sensations can signal more complex underlying problems
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Dignity & Human Rights: Neural Privacy & Unauthorized Human Experimentation
Read more: Dignity & Human Rights: Neural Privacy & Unauthorized Human ExperimentationBy Sally Ann Vazquez-Castellanos Revised on September 25, 2025. Frequenting Target should not make anyone a human target. The Wild Wild West was a very famous television series. Wonder Woman is a famous character and so are Lois Lane, Superman and James Bond. Everyone experiences X and O woes. Many live in Los Angeles County,…
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Public Statement on the Abuse of Public Media, Smart Technology, and Neighborhood-Based Surveillance for Coordinated Harassment and Coercion
Read more: Public Statement on the Abuse of Public Media, Smart Technology, and Neighborhood-Based Surveillance for Coordinated Harassment and CoercionIn the United States, every individual has the right to watch the news, use public media, and live peacefully in their neighborhood without fear of surveillance, harassment, or manipulation. These rights are not conditional. They are protected under the Constitution, federal communications law, privacy law, and international human rights instruments. Yet today, I raise serious…
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A Statement About Beauty: Public Shaming, Privilege, and the Weaponization of Appearance
Read more: A Statement About Beauty: Public Shaming, Privilege, and the Weaponization of AppearanceIt is deeply troubling—and morally indefensible—that any individual would participate in the public shaming of another person based on beauty, physical features, or perceived attractiveness. To engage in such conduct, particularly through social media or other public channels, reflects a profound abuse of privilege and platform. As a woman, a mother, and a professional, I…
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What If That Pressure You Feel in the Car Isn’t Just in Your Head?
Read more: What If That Pressure You Feel in the Car Isn’t Just in Your Head?What about that dash …? We tend to trust our vehicles. We assume that if something were dangerously wrong, a warning light would flash. A sensor would alert us. A technician would catch it during routine service. But what if the most pressing warning system is your own body? The Invisible Weight Inside the Cabin…
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What Did You Do to the Internet? On Neural Privacy, Creative Ownership, and the Quiet Violence of Digital Intrusion
Read more: What Did You Do to the Internet? On Neural Privacy, Creative Ownership, and the Quiet Violence of Digital IntrusionWritten by Sally Vazquez-Castellanos, Esq. © 2025. All Rights Reserved. Published, May 18, 2025. Revised, May 20, 2025. I’ve been thinking a lot about what it means to create—and to be watched while doing so. In this digital moment, where AI models train on human expression and biometric data is mined like currency, I ask…
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Post-Schrems: Guidance from the Department of Commerce on Transatlantic Data Flows
Read more: Post-Schrems: Guidance from the Department of Commerce on Transatlantic Data FlowsThe EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (DPF) replaced the invalidated Privacy Shield. This new legal mechanism established for cross-border transfers was intended to address issues raised in Schrems II concerning the lack of adequacy or protections for EU data subjects.
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Privacy Management: Making the Case for Protecting Children’s Data in the Digital Age
Read more: Privacy Management: Making the Case for Protecting Children’s Data in the Digital AgeIn the middle of all of this technological innovation, we as a society must address the grave moral dilemma of how parents can raise healthy children in an information age that is outpacing traditional legal jurisprudence. If your children are attending an educational institution requiring a smart device; And, even if they do not, you…
