Seeing Like a Finite State Machine
Reading this tweet by Maciej Ceglowski makes me want to set down a conjecture that I’ve been entertaining for the last couple of years (in part thanks to having…
Other Writing
When cyberwar struck its first civilian target
Sandworm: A New Era of Cyberwar and the Hunt for the Kremlin’s Most Dangerous Hackers Andy Greenberg, Doubleday (2019) In 2017, a piece of malicious software c…
Hackers are now targeting councils and governments, threatening to leak citizen data
In recent weeks, Johannesburg’s computer network was held for ransom by a hacker group called Shadow Kill Hackers. This was the second time in three months a ra…
5 milestones that created the internet, 50 years after the first network message
Fifty years ago, a UCLA computer science professor and his student sent the first message over the predecessor to the internet, a network called ARPANET. On Oc…
What Happens When Employers Can Read Your Facial Expressions?
Facial recognition technology, once a darling of Silicon Valley with applications for policing, spying and authenticating identities, is suddenly under fire. Co…
Content Moderation for End-to-End Encrypted Messaging
Thursday evening, the Attorney General, the Acting Homeland Security Secretary, and top law enforcement officials from the U.K. and Australia sent an open lette…
How to License Article 17? Exploring the Implementation Options for the New EU Rules on Content-Sharing Platforms
Abstract How can the EU Member States license Article 17 of the new Directive on copyright and related rights in the Digital Single Market? This is the central…
Why You Can’t Really Consent to Facebook’s Facial Recognition
Not long ago, Consumer Reports launched an investigation into Facebook and discovered something surprising. Nearly a year and a half after the company introduce…
That time my husband reported me to the Facebook police: a case study
[Stanford's Daphne Keller is a preeminent cyberlawyer and one of the world's leading experts on "intermediary liability" -- that is, when an o…
Facebook Restricts Speech by Popular Demand
This past week, with some fanfare, Facebook announced its own version of the Supreme Court: a 40-member board that will make final decisions about user posts th…
Submission to the Australian Independent National Security Legislation Monitor
Submission to the Australian Independent National Security Legislation Monitor's review of the Assistance and Access Act 2018. * Publication Type:Other…
Too Good to Be True?
The client shows his lawyer a video he says he took on his cell phone. It shows the defendant saying things that, if seen by the jury, will be a slam dunk for t…