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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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When the Media Gets It Wrong: The EU Parliament Actually Said No to Forcing Websites to Pay ISPs
On Tuesday, the European Parliament voted to adopt its annual competition policy report. Buried in a long list of non-binding competition policy recommendation…
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Europe’s biggest telecoms are trying to trick the European Parliament into endorsing their proposal to force websites to pay them without proper evaluation and debate. MEPs shouldn’t let them.
On Tuesday, June 13, the European Parliament will vote on the 2022 Annual Report on Competition Policy by the Parliament’s Committee on Economic and Monetary Af…
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EU Member States Still Cannot Agree About End-to-End Encryption
Recently, Wired reported on documents leaked in May from the Council of the European Union’s ongoing deliberations over the draft Child Sex Abuse Regulation. Th…
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Here’s How the European Commission Proposal to Force Websites to Pay ISPs Violates Net Neutrality
In a frontal assault on net neutrality, the European Commission wants to force websites and apps to pay fees to broadband companies like Telefonica, Orange and…
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European Commission proposal to force websites to pay ISPs violates net neutrality, harms Europeans, and solves no problems: Prof. Barbara van Schewick Filing
The European Commission is evaluating a proposal by the largest telecoms in Europe to force websites and apps to pay broadband companies like Telefonica, Orange…
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Comments to the European Commission’s Exploratory Consultation on Mandated Network Access Fees
Professor of Law, and by courtesy, Electrical Engineering at Stanford Law School and Director of Stanford Law School’s Center for Internet and Society.[1] Intr…
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Some Practical Postulates About Platform Data
Beliefs and expectations about what data platforms have at their fingertips vary wildly. That is about to matter a great deal, once new rules in the EU allowing…
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How 'Star Trek: Picard' informs us about cybersecurity
Lessons from ‘Star Trek: Picard’ – a cybersecurity expert explains how a sci-fi series illuminates today’s threats Richard Forno, University of Maryland, Balti…
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Academics’ Letter to Congressional Leaders Highlights the EARN IT Act’s Fourth Amendment Problem
This is the latest entry in my lengthy archive of writing, talks, and interviews about the EARN IT Act: * Blog posts here at the CIS blog: part 1, part 2, par…
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The STOP CSAM Act: An Anti-Encryption Stalking Horse
Recently, I wrote for Lawfare about Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL)’s new STOP CSAM Act bill, S.1199. The bill text is available here. There are a lot of moving parts i…
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An Academic Vision for AI Ethics
In early 2022 I was asked to write a brief statement on an academic vision for AI ethics. As this topic has become only more important in the year since, I thou…
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DALL-E Does Palsgraf
A new article, written in 2022 and published in 2023 -- with pictures! The article asks a leading AI tool for image generation to illustrate the facts of a lea…