Security Experts' Letter on Transparency in Terrorist Content Regulation
This June 2020 letter from security researchers and practitioners urges that EU lawmakers finalizing the Terrorist Content Regulation preserve robust transparen…
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It's all linked: How communication to the public affects internet architecture
The architecture of the Internet is changing. A novel expansive construction of communication and making available to the public has been shaking the Internet e…
Twitter started fact-checking Trump. Then Trump threatened to close it down
As Elizabeth Dwoskin reports for The Washington Post, Twitter has fact-checked President Trump for the first time. Trump had claimed on Twitter that mail-in bal…
The FBI is mad because it keeps getting into locked iPhones without Apple’s help
The debate over encryption continues to drag on without end. In recent months, the discourse has largely swung away from encrypted smartphones to focus instead…
Op-Ed: Coronavirus tracing apps are coming. Here’s how they could reshape surveillance as we know it
Last week, the world got a preview of how Google and Apple’s contact tracing project might look and function. Some privacy and security experts have expressed c…
Don’t use face recognition to fight COVID: We need disease surveillance, not a surveillance state
By EVAN SELINGER and WOODROW HARTZOG When it came to light that Clearview AI, the dubious tech company that scraped billions of images of people without their…
Facebook Filters, Fundamental Rights, and the CJEU’s Glawischnig-Piesczek Ruling
Full paper available at GRUR International. Abstract The Court of Justice of the European Union’s (CJEU) 2019 ruling in Glawischnig-Piesczek v Facebook Irelan…
COVID-19 Contact Tracing and Privacy: Studying Opinion and Preferences
Abstract There is growing interest in technology-enabled contact tracing, the process of identifying potentially infected COVID-19 patients by notifying all re…
The Oxford Handbook of Online Intermediary Liability
(Oxford University Press, edited by Giancarlo Frosio) The theoretical—and market—background against which the intermediary liability debate developed has chang…
The Marco Civil da Internet and Digital Constitutionalism
Abstract and Keywords Between 2009 and 2014, Brazilian civil society groups and government engaged with and ultimately approved the Marco Civil da Internet (Ci…
Remedies First, Liability Second: Or Why We Fail to Agree on Optimal Design of Intermediary Liability
Abstract and Keywords This chapter discusses remedies for online intermediary liability with special emphasis on remedies for intellectual property (IP) infrin…
The Right to Be Forgotten in the European Union
Abstract and Keywords This chapter discusses data protection aspects of liability of online intermediaries with special emphasis on the right to be forgotten a…