The World’s Most Popular Porn Site Is a Government Agent Now. Does It Matter?
On Monday, I published a two-part blog post about the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) settlement with Aylo, parent company of Pornhub. The FTC’s complaint allege…
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Promote the Progress, Legalize Learning
Learning—by brains or machines—is not a copyright-relevant act. This essay argues that treating training as presumptively infringing (rescued, sometimes, by fai…
The Evolution of Trust and Safety
This Article tells the inside story of the rise, spread, and evolution of trust and safety. We bring unique perspectives to this story. One of us (Citron) was o…
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Governing AI
Abstract Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly pervasive and essential to everyday life, enabling apps and various smart devices to autonomous vehicles…
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…
"Becoming Part of Something Bigger": Direct to Consumer Genetic Testing, Privacy, and Personal Disclosure
Direct to consumer genetic testing (DTCGT) services where users can identify their inherited diseases and traits, find genetic relatives, and learn more about t…
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…
Reply Brief to the Ninth Circuit re Motion to Unseal (Facebook Messenger)
Reply brief of Movants-Appellants EFF, ACLU, and Riana Pfefferkorn to the Ninth Circuit in our appeal from the district court's denial of our motion to unse…
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…
Three Constitutional Thickets: Why Regulating Online Violent Extremism is Hard
The Program on Extremism Policy Paper series combines analysis on extremism-related issues by our researchers and guest contributors with tailored recommendatio…