Deepfake Dallas
Is your voice your own? Maybe not anymore. Using artificial intelligence, someone can make an algorithm that sounds just like you. And then they can say... what…
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DEF CON Safe Mode Crypto and Privacy Village - Cathy Gellis, Riana Pfefferkorn - Fireside Chat
It seems like everyone's talking about Section 230 these days, and keen to change it, even without really knowing what it says and does. Or how badly most o…
“Reengineering Humanity” and the Arctic Code Vault
The late Stephen Hawking famously warned that Artificial Intelligence might someday become so clever as to supersede humans. But academic and author, Brett Fri…
Encryption Under ‘Full-Frontal Nuclear Assault’ By U.S. Bills
Riana Pfefferkorn, the Associate Director of Surveillance and Cybersecurity at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society, who has investigated and analyzed t…
How Ranking and Recommendation Algorithms Influence How We See the World
Have you ever stumbled on a random video because of autoplay? Have you ever wondered why some items appear on your news feed or in search results while others d…
Techdirt Podcast Episode 248: The Most Serious Threat To Section 230
Attacks on Section 230 are relentless and coming from all sides — so we've got another podcast all about the attempts to ruin the most important law on the…
Free Speech And Hate Speech: Another Reckoning For Social Media Companies
Coca Cola, Target and other major companies have recently limited or stopped advertising on Facebook. Those boycotts are part of a campaign designed to pressure…
Content Moderation: How it Works, Why it Works and Best Practices
The role of a content moderator is to be both a judge and a janitor of the internet, according to Alex Feerst, general counsel at Neuralink. In a Broadband Bre…
Everything You Need to Know About Section 230: A 5 Part Series -- Panel V: A Future without 230
Everything You Need to Know About Section 230: A Five Part Series -- Panel V: Imagining the Future without 230 Webinar V/V: Imagining the Future without 230 F…
The Cost Of Contact Tracing
RYAN CALO: Who you know and where you are and your health status. GARCIA: Ryan Calo teaches law at the University of Washington. Unlike in many countries, ther…
The Legal Academy, Episode 4: Danielle Citron
Here is Episode 4 of The Legal Academy, my new show about law professors. The guest this week is Danielle Citron of Boston University Law School. Topics includ…
Privacy in a Pandemic
Featuring Ali Lange, Government Affairs & Public Policy Manager, Google; Ryan Calo, Co‐ Director, Tech Policy Lab & Professor of Law, University of Wash…