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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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The Provision of Means: Dual Use Goods & Corporate Liability
This is Part III of a series on the Doe v. Cisco case pending in the Northern District of California and involving claims that Cisco should be liable for aiding…
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Belgian Court Says That ISPs Must Not Pay a Copyright Levy to Collective Societies
On March 13, 2015, the Distric Court of Brussels decided that Internet Service Providers (ISPs) should not pay a copyright levy for communicating to the public…
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Landmark Intermediary Liability Decision from the Indian Supreme Court
Recently, the Supreme Court of India issued a landmark decision regarding the constitutionality of several provisions included in the Indian Information Technol…
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Welcome to the Manila Intermediary Liability Principles!
A few days ago, digital rights advocates and civil society groups gathered together in Manila and approved the Intermediary Liability Principles. The principles…
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Which Cyberthreat Information Sharing Proposal You Should Support? (Hint: None)
It’s the season for “cyberthreat” information sharing proposals. There’s the White House plan, announced in January. There’s the Cybersecurity Information Shari…
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Doe v. Cisco: The International Law Legal Issues
At issue in plaintiffs’ motion for reconsideration in Doe v. Cisco are a number of open questions being considered by courts across the nation in Alien Tort Sta…
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China’s Golden Shield: Is Cisco Systems Complicit?
Although information technology is often hailed for its potential to promote human rights, governmental accountability, economic development, and democratizatio…
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What Spymaster Barbie Can Teach Us About Privacy
Children make excellent intelligence assets. They trust strangers, lack socially-constructed boundaries about what is and is not private, and can be easily mani…
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An Axl Rose sample used in a mash up doesn't smell as sweet.
The bright lines of the real property based view of copyright are being blurred by technology. In 1991, Mr. Biz Markee was found liable for infringing Mr. Gilbe…
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A Few Brief Thoughts on Ferguson and Structural Surveillance
While reading the Department of Justice Report of their investigation of the Ferguson Police Department, I was reminded once again of the telos of surveillance…
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Does E-commerce Personalization Make All Consumers Vulnerable Consumers?
It is the first week of March, which in the U.S. means it is also National Consumer Protection Week. This coordinated annual effort encourages people to assert…
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Spain: The Right to Be Forgotten Does Not Apply to Blogger
In a recently reported ruling, the Spanish National High Court held that Google is not responsible for the processing of personal data on blog hosted on Google’…