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Courts and lawyers struggle with growing prevalence of deepfakes
"As the technology grows in complexity, making it more difficult to spot fakes, attorneys and judges will have to decide how to manage deepfake evidence an…
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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…
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Google got rich from your data. DuckDuckGo is fighting back
"DuckDuckGo has loudly criticised Google’s efforts. Weinberg and DuckDuckGo general counsel Megan Gray, who previously worked at the US Federal Trade Commi…
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Sharing is caring, unless it’s misinformation
"Ryan Calo is an investigator with the University of Washington’s Center for an Informed Public. He says there's a reason why false information is ever…
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Los Angeles is tracking every person who rides a rental scooter
"Israel has already announced plans to use tracking data in this way, prompting Al Gidari, director of privacy at Stanford Law School's Center for Inte…
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Missing Link: How states use law to override encryption on the Internet
""Does that mean that you don't actually need the law at all?" Asks Riana Pfefferkorn, an encryption policy expert at Stanford University and…
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Stalkerware sees all, and US laws haven't stopped its spread
"Law professor Danielle Citron of Boston University, who has studied stalkerware, applauded the settlement, which she said sets a mold that similar apps mu…
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The Battle Over Free Speech Online Is a Volcano That’s Ready to Blow
"However, Danielle Citron, a University of Maryland law professor and author of the book Hate Crimes in Cyberspace, suggested there was no quid pro quo in…
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The police want your phone data. Here’s what they can get — and what they can’t.
"“Basically, anything that a provider has that it can decode, law enforcement is getting it,” Jennifer Granick, surveillance and cybersecurity counsel for…
It's all linked: How communication to the public affects internet architecture
The architecture of the Internet is changing. A novel expansive construction of communication and making available to the public has been shaking the Internet e…
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Trump's Antifa Obsession Is an Unconstitutional Distraction
"Attempting to stigmatize and criminalize anti-fascists would also be unconstitutional. “It’s utterly uncontroversial that, if the First Amendment means an…
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Agencies Face Limited Options For Twitter Crackdowns
""It's mostly just sound and fury, a way to give support to more legislative approaches which would be more effective," said Stanford Law Sch…