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Friction, Consent, and the Illusion of Choice
When infrastructure fails — planes crash, systems freeze, rights vanish — suddenly everyone cares. Villanova’s Brett Frischmann rejoins Hearsay Culture to expla…
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X ordered its Grok chatbot to ‘tell like it is.’ Then the Nazi tirade began.
Hate speech is generally protected by the First Amendment in the United States, but lawyers could argue that some of Grok’s output this week crossed the line in…
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A Viral Marriage Proposal Raises Privacy Questions in the Social Media Age
So, knowing that everyone has cameras on them at all times, how much privacy can someone reasonably expect when they’re out in public? Hartzog: Generally speak…
Federal AI Moratorium Dies on the Vine as Senate Passes the One Big Beautiful Bill Act
On July 1, 2025, in a near-unanimous 99–1 vote, the US Senate stripped the artificial intelligence (AI) moratorium provisions originally included in the budget…
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Search, swipe, sleep — everything you do is being tracked, but can you even ‘turn it off’?!
This week’s conversation on The Intersect is about online privacy – or maybe the slow, confusing erosion of it. I sat down with culture and tech reporter Taylor…
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Trump pushes back TikTok's sell-by date for a third time
Speaking before the latest promise of an extension, Ryan Calo, a professor at the University of Washington law school who follows tech, says Trump has operated…
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Meta's $14.8 billion Scale AI deal latest test of AI partnerships
David Olson, a professor who teaches antitrust law at Boston College Law School, said it was smart of Meta to take a minority nonvoting stake. "I think th…
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Tech tools to track protesters accused of interfering with ICE
Catherine Crump, technology law professor at UC Berkeley School of Law gives insight on location data tech used to track dissidents. Some tech-skeptical Califor…
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Censorship, Civilizational Allies, and Codes of Practice: How European Tech Regulation Became a Geopolitical Flashpoint
Daphne Keller and Joan Barata of Stanford’s PPR discuss the European Union’s Disinformation Code of Practice and its transition, on July 1, from voluntary frame…
California’s AB 2013: Generative AI Developers Must Show Their Data
California Assembly Bill 2013 (AB 2013), known as the Generative Artificial Intelligence: Training Data Transparency Act, was signed into law on September 28, 2…
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Putting Patients at the Center of AI Design
As health care expands its use of AI, prioritizing patient interests throughout the AI development lifecycle is increasingly crucial. This expert panel will dis…
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Struggling DNA testing firm 23andMe to be bought for $256m
Regeneron has different aims from the ones 23andMe presented to consumers, according to Dr Jennifer King, privacy and data policy Fellow at the Stanford Institu…