Hey Platforms: Add TAKE IT DOWN To Your Transparency Reports
Today marks the deadline for online platforms to implement a process for notice-and-takedown of nonconsensual intimate imagery (NCII) under the TAKE IT DOWN Act…
Publications
Data Privacy and Foundation Models: Can We Have Both?
This brief examines the privacy risks foundation models pose to individuals and society, and governance mechanisms needed to address them. Key Takeaways * F…
AI, Art, & Crime
In early February, I was on a fascinating panel put on by Helen Maria Nugent at CCA about AI and Art: Contemplating an Algorithmic Future, as part of CCA’s Afte…
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Addressing Infringement: Developments in Content Regulation in the US and the DNS
Abstract and Keywords The reach of privately ordered online content regulation is wide and deepening. It is deepening with reference to the internet’s protocol…
Privacy and New Google-Apple COVID-19 Tracing Technology
On Monday, May 4, Google and Apple shared sample code for their new contact tracing technology—tools that they have jointly developed to help to slow the spread…
The EARN IT Act is a disaster amid the COVID-19 crisis
Before the novel coronavirus arrived on its shores, the United States had spent decades becoming a heavily digitized society. Now, the pandemic is deepening tha…
Text and Data Mining: Articles 3 and 4 of the Directive 2019/790/EU
(with Christophe Geiger and Oleksandr Bulayenko) in Concepción Saiz García and Raquel Evangelio Llorca (eds.), "Propiedad intelectual y mercado único digi…
Algorithmic Enforcement Online
in Paul Torremans, ed., Intellectual Property and Human Rights (4th edition, Kluwer Law Int’l, forthcoming 2020), 709-744 Artificial Intelligence (AI) is incre…
Reversing Turing
There is ample evidence to suggest that digital technologies are being designed and deployed not only to surveil and nudge us toward certain consumer preference…
Contact Tracing, Governments, and Data
Digital contact tracing apps have emerged in recent weeks as one potential tool in a suite of solutions that would allow countries around the world to respond t…
Contact-tracing apps are not a solution to the COVID-19 crisis
The unprecedented threat from the novel coronavirus has confined many Americans to their homes, distancing them from one another at great cost to local economie…
The Ethical Use of Personal Data to Build Artificial Intelligence Technologies: A Case Study on Remote Biometric Identity Verification
ABSTRACT: Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies have the capacity to do a great deal of good in the world, but whether they do so is not only dependent upon…
Zoom and the Problem of Cybersecurity Moral Hazard
A great deal of ink has been spilled regarding the many security vulnerabilities in Zoom teleconferencing software that were discovered after hundreds of millio…
Be very wary of Trump’s health surveillance plans
By Danielle Citron and Geng Ngarmboonanant Danielle Citron, a 2019 MacArthur Fellow, is a professor at Boston University School of Law. Geng Ngarmboonanant is…
Apple and Google Announced a Coronavirus Tracking System. How Worried Should We Be?
Apple and Google last week announced a joint contact tracing effort that would use Bluetooth technology to help alert people who have been in close proximity to…