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When authoritative sources hold onto bad data: A legal scholar explains the need for government databases to retract information

  • Written by Janet Freilich, Associate Professor of Law, Fordham University
imageGovernment information sources like the U.S. patent database often file bad information without labeling it or providing a way to retract it.Thinglass/iStock via Getty Images

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