The Strengths and Weaknesses of the Online Child Safety Ecosystem
Online child sexual exploitation is one of the most widespread and impactful abuses of the internet to cause harm. The CyberTipline is the centralized system i…
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Thoughts about Volt Typhoon
What is Volt Typhoon? A cybersecurity expert explains the Chinese hackers targeting US critical infrastructure Richard Forno, University of Maryland, Bal…
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Privacy in an AI Era: How Do We Protect Our Personal Information?
The AI boom, including the advent of large language models (LLMs) and their associated chatbots, poses new challenges for privacy. Is our personal information p…
Distinguishing Privacy Law: A Critique of Privacy as Social Taxonomy
What distinguishes privacy violations from other harms? This has proven a surprisingly difficult question to answer. For over a century, privacy law scholars la…
Rethinking Privacy in the AI Era: Policy Provocations for a Data-Centric World
This white paper explores the current and future impact of privacy and data protection legislation on AI development and provides recommendations for mitigating…
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Why we are Re-Engineering Humanity
Re-Engineering Humanity with Brett Frischmann, the interdisciplinary law professor shares his unexpected journey from studying math, science, and astrophysics t…
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Tool Without A Handle: Are You Not Trained?
This post takes up the questions of how copyright law may impact the development and commercialization of Artificial Intelligence ("AI") tools, g…
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Patchwork AI Regulations
Introduction Where’s Waldo LLC (“Waldo”), your U.K. based digital advertising company, just got funded. Wonderful news! But it also just received a notice from…
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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…
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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…