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Eight (or so) Questions to Ask about the ChatGPT Warrant
Earlier this week, the indefatigable Thomas Brewster at Forbes, a journalist who’s been covering the digital surveillance beat for years, reported on a search w…
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Navigating Pressures and Protecting Free Speech: Public Views and the Future of Media Freedom
Following recent government pressure to remove Jimmy Kimmel from his ABC late-night show over his politically charged remarks about the assassination of conserv…
From Murdoch to Musk: Platform ownership and the political economy of online content governance
The recent upheavals in content governance at X and Meta have something in common: both were initiated by the platform's controlling shareholders. As the US…
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Law journal event examines constitutional rights in criminal and immigration proceedings
Panelists Cheri Beasley, Sandra Day O’Connor Professor at Elon Law and former chief justice of the N.C. Supreme Court, Erin Fitzgerald, assistant professor of l…
"Self-Driving" Means Self-Driving
Tesla uses the name "Full Self-Driving" to market a driver assistance system that still requires its user to pay attention to the road. And yet, as th…
The Great Scrape: The Clash Between Scraping and Privacy
Artificial intelligence (AI) systems depend on massive quantities of data, often gathered by “scraping”—the automated extraction of large amounts of data from t…
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Is the American Rule of Law collapsing?
Ty Cobb - Hearsay Culture Radio? “The rule of law, historically, has distinguished our country . . . from tyranny.” - Ty Cobb Ty Cobb, a renowned D.C. trial l…
User Privacy and Large Language Models: An Analysis of Frontier Developers' Privacy Policies
Hundreds of millions of people now regularly interact with large language models via chatbots. Model developers are eager to acquire new sources of high-quality…
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Be Careful What You Tell Your AI Chatbot
A Stanford study reveals that leading AI companies are pulling user conversations for training, highlighting privacy risks and a need for clearer policies. Las…
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Who’s Submitting AI-Tainted Filings in Court?
It seems like every day brings another news story about a lawyer caught unwittingly submitting a court filing that cites nonexistent cases hallucinated by AI. T…
Algorithmic Enclosure? Reclaiming a Human-Centred Governance Model for Online Creativity
This chapter argues that the real risk of 'algorithmic enclosure' arises not from using automation, but from using it without rights-driven, human-centr…
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What We Can Learn from the First Digital Services Act Out-of-Court Dispute Settlements?
It’s been three years since Europe’s Digital Services Act (DSA) came into effect, a sweeping set of rules meant to hold online platforms accountable for how the…