Georgetown University Law Center

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Jan 19th, 2023

The school overall is great, but I wouldnt recommend it for students with disabilities. Students and speakers who are privacy-conscious should be careful as well. Mary Ellen Vigeant is the current director of disability services and she makes disabled students manually record audio of their law school classes on their personal cell phones without the knowledge of some professors, any class speakers or any other students. She also makes the school use a smartphone app built by a Silicon Valley startup called Otter, which was created by people in business to transcribe meetings. She has her disabled students install Otter on their phones to do the recordings so they can get the audio transcribed by Otters artificial intelligence (basically a worse version of automated Youtube captions) and use that transcript for class notes, without telling them or their professors that Otter is not designed for law schools, so it has no legal dictionary, it has no duty of privacy, everything that is recorded stays in the cloud forever, and Otter makes money selling user data. And if its user list ever got hacked, it would show a pretty comprehensive list of the students with disabilities at Georgetown Law.
Feb 22nd, 2023