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Privacy law amicus brief to California Supreme Court
This week I joined an esteemed group of legal scholars including Steven Bellovin, Laura Donohue, Susan Freiwald, Eric Goldman, Paul Ohm, and Daniel Solove in su…
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A Deutsche Telekom Shakedown: Will Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp slow to a crawl in Germany as DT tries to get paid twice, and will German regulators have the courage to stop DT’s bullying?
We are about to see whether the largest and most powerful telecom in Europe, Deutsche Telekom (DT), can force websites and apps to pay so-called “network fe…
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Regulating platform risk and design: ChatGPT says the quiet part out loud
Platform laws too often use terms like "design" or "risk mitigation” as euphemisms for mandates that target legally protected expression. When asked GPT about them, its answers said that quiet part out loud.
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It's Groundhog Day at the European Commission
For the past two years, the European Commission has been pushing to radically change the internet and telecommunications market in the EU in order to benefit Eu…
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Initial Analysis of the FCC’s 2024 Open Internet Order
On Tuesday, the FCC released the final text of the 2024 Open Internet Order, which the commission voted to adopt on April 25. Here’s my statement and initial a…
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2nd Circuit: When the FCC abdicates its power over broadband, states can act
In 2021, New York adopted the Affordable Broadband Act, which requires broadband providers to offer affordable options to low-income households. Today, the Co…
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FCC votes to restore its authority over broadband providers and restore net neutrality
Statement from Professor Barbara van Schewick, Professor of Law at Stanford Law School and the Director of Stanford Law School’s Center for Internet and Society…
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Harmful 5G Fast Lanes Are Coming. The FCC Needs to Stop Them
The FCC is set to vote on April 25 to restore its authority over the companies we pay to get online, and reinstate federal net neutrality protections that were…
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Thoughts about Volt Typhoon
What is Volt Typhoon? A cybersecurity expert explains the Chinese hackers targeting US critical infrastructure Richard Forno, University of Maryland, Bal…
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Tool Without A Handle: Are You Not Trained? - Part 2
Tool Without A Handle: Are You Not Trained? (part 2) The last post in this series[1] addressed how copyright law may impact the development and commerci…
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How to Strengthen the FCC’s Proposed Net Neutrality Protections by Closing Loopholes and Matching the 2015 Open Internet Order
The Federal Communications Commission is looking to restore net neutrality for all Americans. The FCC published its proposal, a so-called Notice of Proposed Rul…
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FAQs About The NetChoice Cases at the Supreme Court, Part 2
This is the second in a hopefully finite series of blog posts about the legal issues in the NetChoice cases, in which platforms raise First Amendment challe…
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Over-the-air updates and regulatory recalls
Automakers (including Tesla, Daimer, Ford, and GM) as well as automated-driving developers (including Waymo and Cruise) have recalled vehicles by pushing over-t…
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New Paper on AI-Generated CSAM
Today, Lawfare published my paper on the law and policy implications of AI-generated child sex abuse material (CSAM), and there’s a podcast episode accompanying…
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FAQs about the NetChoice Cases at the Supreme Court, Part 1
The Supreme Court is about to review a constitutional challenge to two unprecedented and very complicated laws regulating social media. The laws were enacte…