“Decriminalization holds a lot of promise and the Commonwealth should absolutely pursue it,” said Leo Beletsky, a Northeastern University associate professor of law and health sciences who has been critical of Baker’s response to the crisis. “It is necessary, but not sufficient.”

Dr. Polli, who worked as a neuroscientist at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said Pymetrics’s algorithms have been audited by experts from Northeastern University to ensure they don’t inadvertently discriminate.

Woodrow Hartzog, a professor of law and computer science at Northeastern University, said the current bill “has actually gutted some of the soul” of the Massachusetts Information Privacy Act. He said that earlier legislation was far better in putting “substantive limits” on the type of data that companies could collect and sell, whereas the new […]

“There’s been a lot of criminal charges brought against various cogs in the wheel of Big Pharma over their supposed role in the overdose crisis, and corporate executives have been insulated from that,” said Leo Beletsky, a Northeastern University law professor who specializes on the law’s impact on public health.

The COVID States Project includes Harvard Kennedy School, Northeastern University, Rutgers University and others. Its previous surveys have looked at the use of at-home COVID tests, mask use, vaccines, as well as contentious school board elections and the January 6 storming of the U.S. Capitol.

Spotify has shown more transparency in the past few days than it ever has about how it deals with questionable content, and the new policy is a good first step, says John Wihbey, a Northeastern University professor and specialist in emerging technologies. Yet it’s not clear that anyone has effectively dealt with the issue of […]

Sometimes the deterioration is minor enough that the bridge will be put in the queue for repair and the frequency of inspections will increase, said Jerome Hajjar, professor and department chair at Northeastern University’s College of Engineering. “When a bridge is added to the queue, it can be years before there’s funding to take care […]