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Rushing to Launch the EU's Platform Database Experiment
One of the least appreciated transparency measures in the EU’s new Digital Services Act (DSA) is the requirement for platforms to send the Commission informatio…
Intermediary Liability
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EU Member States Still Cannot Agree About End-to-End Encryption
Recently, Wired reported on documents leaked in May from the Council of the European Union’s ongoing deliberations over the draft Child Sex Abuse Regulation. Th…
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Some Practical Postulates About Platform Data
Beliefs and expectations about what data platforms have at their fingertips vary wildly. That is about to matter a great deal, once new rules in the EU allowing…
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The STOP CSAM Act: An Anti-Encryption Stalking Horse
Recently, I wrote for Lawfare about Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL)’s new STOP CSAM Act bill, S.1199. The bill text is available here. There are a lot of moving parts i…
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An Academic Vision for AI Ethics
In early 2022 I was asked to write a brief statement on an academic vision for AI ethics. As this topic has become only more important in the year since, I thou…
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DALL-E Does Palsgraf
A new article, written in 2022 and published in 2023 -- with pictures! The article asks a leading AI tool for image generation to illustrate the facts of a lea…
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An Academic Vision for AI Ethics
In early 2022 I was asked to write a brief statement on an academic vision for AI ethics. As this topic has become only more important in the year since, I thou…
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Artificial intelligence liability: the rules are changing
I. Intro Artificial intelligence (“AI”) use has blossomed. The AI market was valued at $27.3 in 2019 and is projected to grow to $266.92 billion b…
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User Privacy vs. Platform Transparency: The Conflicts Are Real and We Need to Talk About Them
Pretty much everyone wants better information about how platforms propagate and govern online speech. We are probably about to get it. A major pending EU law wi…
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Ignoring EARN IT’s Fourth Amendment Problem Won’t Make It Go Away
This is the latest entry in my lengthy archive of writing, talks, and interviews about the EARN IT Act: * Blog posts here at the CIS blog: part 1, part 2, par…
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The EARN IT Act Is Back, and It’s More Dangerous Than Ever
This is the latest entry in my lengthy archive of writing, talks, and interviews about the EARN IT Act: * Blog posts at the CIS blog: part 1, part 2, part 3,…
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Privacy, Middleware, and Interoperability: Can Technical Solutions, Including Blockchain, Help Us Avoid Hard Tradeoffs?
Interoperability and distributed content moderation models have tremendous promise. They could temper major platforms’ power over public discourse, introducing…