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Google Assistant is 10x faster and knows where your mom lives
""I don't know how well people actually understand," said Jen King, director of consumer privacy at the Stanford Center for Internet and Soci…
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12 Experts on the Uber IPO and the Ridesharing Company’s Future
"Ryan Calo, University of Washington law professor I think about the privacy-policy ramifications. I think about the effect on the driver of the architect…
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What Online Content Are We Regulating? Illegal Speech, Offensive Speech, and Platform Value
This discussion, excerpted from my Who Do You Sue article, very briefly reviews the implications of what I call “must-carry” arguments – claims that operators o…
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What Platform Operations Are We Regulating? Platform Product Features, Content Removal, and Content Amplification
This discussion, excerpted from my Who Do You Sue article, describes the specific functions of online speech platforms that could potentially be affected by new…
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Platform Content Regulation – Some Models and Their Problems
Lawmakers today are increasingly focused on their options for regulating the content we see on online platforms. I described several ambitious regulatory models…
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Facebook Can Ban Whomever It Wants. Just Ask Trump's Lawyers
"The complicating factor for the President in this case is that, well, he is the President. Not only that, but he uses his account to conduct government bu…
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Driverless car industry luring federal safety brass
"But so far, many more officials have followed Strickland out of government than back into it. University of South Carolina Law School professor Bryant Wal…
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Amazon's neighborhood watch app raises discrimination, privacy fears
"Neighborhood message boards are already famously rife with racism, and Motherboard reported earlier this year it had found frequent racist comments on Rin…
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What Does Chalking Tires Have To Do With The Fourth Amendment?
"To those within and without the legal profession, the ruling is strange. "It's an interesting and unusual case," says Stephen Smith, retired…
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The splintering internet means trouble for Facebook, Twitter, and Google
"“It’s really important to understand how much Europe is in the driver’s seat,” says Daphne Keller, director of Intermediary Liability at the Center for In…
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Privacy Penalties Will Keep Setting Records, FTC Chair Hints
""So far, we haven't gotten really close to the maximums [of the agency's statutory fining authority], but one of the things we're looking…
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Prominent security pros enter the 'Right to Repair' debate
I'm pleased to be part of the inaugural group of security professionals standing up for the rights of technology owners to repair, re-use, fix, modify, and…