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…
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Federal shutdown deals blow to already hobbled cybersecurity agency
Richard Forno, University of Maryland, Baltimore County As the United States experiences its latest government shutdown, most of the daily operations of the fe…
Recognize this? A spectrum of biometric identification
My dog recognizes me. From across a dog park full of people throwing balls and calling their pups, Spot never fails. She uses the poor eyesight, good hearing an…
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Newly unsealed warrant shows search of fired IU professor's homes part of federal funding fraud investigation
The unsealed records show that the agents searching Wang's homes were looking for funding applications, including drafts, and submissions to the National Sc…
Constitutionalising Algorithmic Enforcement
This chapter offers a clear, comparative map of algorithmic enforcement in the IP domain, with emphasis on copyright and trade marks online. In short, the chapt…
What Europe’s Digital Services Act Says About Age Assurance
The Digital Services Act (DSA) establishes a wide regulatory framework applicable to intermediary services and particularly online platforms in the European Uni…