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Nunes faces tough odds with Twitter lawsuit
""The bottom line of the case is that its legal merits barely matter, because the point is political theater," Daphne Keller, the director of int…
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Hundreds of Millions of User Passwords Exposed to Facebook Employees
"Storing passwords in an encrypted format is “not just best practice, it’s something that industry should always do,” said Jennifer Granick, a lawyer with…
President Trump and the Myth of American AI
On February 11, 2019, the President of the United States signed an Executive Order (EO) directing the federal government to promote artificial intelligence (AI)…
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Social Security may use your Facebook and Instagram photos to nix disability claims
""You can't take someone's Facebook or other social media posts at absolute face value," said Jennifer King, director of consumer privacy…
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Net Neutrality: Will Congress Save Internet Freedom?
"Ryan Singel, a media and strategy fellow at Stanford Law School’s Center for Internet and Society and founder at Contextly, told me in an email interview…
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Why the New Zealand Shooting Video Keeps Circulating
"Ultimately, the use case for purely AI-driven content moderation is fairly narrow, says Daphne Keller, the director of intermediary liability at the Stanf…
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Volvo says driver-facing cameras are key to cutting crashes
"Bryant Walker Smith, an assistant professor at the University of South Carolina School of Law, says a car intervening and taking over control raises quest…
Europe just hit Google with a 10-figure fine. Again.
The European Commission has just fined Google nearly $1.7 billion for abusing its dominance of search ads to make life difficult for its competitors. This is th…
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ACLU Wants Amazon To Stop 'Powering' Government Surveillance That Can Be Used Against Black Activists And Undocumented Immigrants
"“We already know facial recognition algorithms discriminate against black faces and are being used to violate the human rights of immigrants. We know putt…
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‘Mockingbird’ Spat Shows Benefits of Light Touch on Copyrights
"Some corporations still use a “scorched earth” approach when enforcing a copyright, especially in the entertainment industry, copyright attorney Andrew Br…
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One year after Zuckerberg’s testimony about violent content on Facebook, has anything changed?
"“I don’t think it’s an impossible task. It’s a hard task, and it depends on the defaults we want to live with,” said Danielle Citron, a University of Mary…
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How the tragic death of Do Not Track ruined the web for everyone
"Arvind Narayanan, now an associate professor at Princeton and part of that early DNT-formulating group, said via an email statement that the prospect of f…