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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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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…
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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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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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My Comment to the UK Government on Its Proposal to Ban “Bespoke,” “Sophisticated” Encrypted Phones
The UK Government is proposing to change the law to make it easier for them to prosecute those who sell or possess “sophisticated encrypted communications devic…
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Some Thoughts About Apple’s New Advanced Data Protection Feature
Last week, Apple announced several new security features: the ability to authenticate contacts in iMessage (reminiscent of Signal’s verification feature), suppo…
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Did Twitter ignore basic security measures? Let's see.
Did Twitter ignore basic security measures? A cybersecurity expert explains a whistleblower’s claims Richard Forno, University of Maryland, Baltimore County T…