Despite 'transparency' claims, Facebook stops watchdogs from monitoring ads
"The propublica tool, much like ours, was aimed to provide users with valuable information about political ads to help shed more light on a process that ha…
"The propublica tool, much like ours, was aimed to provide users with valuable information about political ads to help shed more light on a process that ha…
The comedian Will Rogers famously joked: “I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat.” Until relatively recently, neither Republicans n…
"Woodrow Hartzog, a Northeastern University professor of law and computer science, examines dark patterns in his book "Privacy’s Blueprint" (Harv…
"Jen King, director of consumer privacy at Stanford’s Center for Internet and Society, thinks it's a sign Facebook may be ready to actually take privac…
"“Not everything works better when we put dollar (or in the case of data, cent) figures on it,” Neil M. Richards, a law professor at Washington University…
This essay closely examines the effect on free-expression rights when platforms such as Facebook or YouTube silence their users’ speech. The first part describe…
I have a new article coming out, called Who Do You Sue? State and Platform Hybrid Power over Online Speech. It is about free expression rights on platforms like…
"In response to the AP report, Jonathan Mayer, a Princeton computer scientist, said: “If you're going to allow users to turn off something called ‘loca…
"“The Supreme Court appropriately understood the importance of the internet to the way politics and free expression occur right now,” says Neil Richards, a…
"“I think a lot of policymakers [here] recognize that they don’t just want to be manufacturers [anymore],” University of South Carolina law professor Bryan…
TechCrunch asked a panel of eight privacy experts: “Has anything fundamentally changed around privacy in tech in 2019? What is the state of privacy and has the…
"Woodrow Hartzog, professor of law and computer science at Northeastern University, agreed, noting the opinion could impact future surveillance and data ru…