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New Research Paper on Federal AI-CSAM Prosecutions
Together with Cyndie Demeocq at U of Edinburgh, today I’m releasing a paper analyzing 71 federal criminal cases, filed around the US from 2022-2025, that someho…
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California Is Being Asked to Give Up 14 Years of Broadband Protections. It Doesn't Have To.
Accepting $1.42 billion in federal broadband funding would require California to give up enforcing its net neutrality, affordability, and public-safety laws aga…
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Comment to the California State Bar on AI-related proposed ethics rule changes
I submitted a comment to the California State Bar's Standing Committee on Professional Responsibility and Conduct (COPRAC) on its proposed amendments to the…
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Thoughts on Baltimore's ongoing ransomware situation
Hackers seek ransoms from Baltimore and communities across the US Many of Baltimore’s city services are crippled by a cyberattack. Richard Forno, University o…
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Tool Without A Handle: Guerilla Information Warfare
Tool Without A Handle: Guerilla Information Warfare “The enemies of liberal democracy hack our feelings of fear and hate and vanity, and then use these feelin…
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Open Letter to GCHQ Regarding Threats Posed by their Ghost Proposal
Today I join several cybersecurity, civil liberties, civil society organizations and researchers in responding to the United Kingdom's GCHQ recent proposal…
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Court Denies Petition to Unseal Its Perma-Sealed Surveillance Docket
After 32 months of litigation, my quest to unseal my local federal district court's sealed surveillance docket has ended with not a single page unsealed and…
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Essay in the Boston Review
Today I have a response piece up on the Boston Review, responding to an intriguing essay by Bruce Schneier and CIS affiliate Henry Farrell about how to protect…
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What Online Content Are We Regulating? Illegal Speech, Offensive Speech, and Platform Value
This discussion, excerpted from my Who Do You Sue article, very briefly reviews the implications of what I call “must-carry” arguments – claims that operators o…
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What Platform Operations Are We Regulating? Platform Product Features, Content Removal, and Content Amplification
This discussion, excerpted from my Who Do You Sue article, describes the specific functions of online speech platforms that could potentially be affected by new…
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Platform Content Regulation – Some Models and Their Problems
Lawmakers today are increasingly focused on their options for regulating the content we see on online platforms. I described several ambitious regulatory models…
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Prominent security pros enter the 'Right to Repair' debate
I'm pleased to be part of the inaugural group of security professionals standing up for the rights of technology owners to repair, re-use, fix, modify, and…
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The Wonderful Wizards of Oz
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” – Arthur C. Clarke “Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain!” – The Wizard of O…
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Australia Shows the World How Not to Regulate Platforms, News, and Public Information
Thennicke CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons In March, a gunman slaughtered worshippers in two Christchurch mosques, live-streamed his crime, and became an In…
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Restoring Net Neutrality Protections: An Analysis of H.R. 1096 vs. H.R. 1644
The following is the executive summary of an analysis I wrote looking at two bills in the House, both of which purport to restore the net neutrality protections…