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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Platform Justice: Content Moderation at an Inflection Point
On Thursday, Sept. 6, Twitter permanently banned the right-wing provocateur Alex Jones and his conspiracy theorist website Infowars from its platform. This was…
Security Risks of Government Hacking
Abstract: As the use of encryption and other privacy-enhancing technologies has increased, government officials in the United States have sought ways to ensure…
Platform Justice
CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD .PDF The role of dominant content platforms like Facebook and Twitter in facilitating Russian election interference in the 2016 US presi…
There’s an old conservative playbook behind Donald Trump’s threat to regulate Google
Nicole Hemmer is an assistant professor in presidential studies at the University of Virginia. Her book, Messengers of the Right: Conservative Media and the Tra…
Brief of Professors of Communications Law as Amici Curiae in Support of Petitioners
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It’s no accident that Facebook is so addictive
Siva Vaidhyanathan is the Robertson professor of media studies and director of the Center for Media and Citizenship at the University of Virginia. He is also th…
Alex Jones was just banned from YouTube, Facebook and iTunes. Here’s how he managed to survive until now
In the last 24 hours, Apple, Facebook and YouTube have banned content from conspiracy theorist broadcaster Alex Jones. Last week, I interviewed Tarleton Gillesp…
Online labor markets may look competitive. They aren’t.
People often think that online markets are far more efficient and competitive than traditional ones. This may not be so. In a new National Bureau of Economic Re…
Facial Recognition Is the Perfect Tool for Oppression
Co-authored with Evan Selinger The Trojans would have loved facial recognition technology. It’s easy to accept an outwardly compelling but ultimately illusory…
Algorithm and Blues: The Tyranny of the Coming Smart-Tech Utopia
Cross-posted from Scientific American. Imagine a world governed by smart technologies engineered to achieve three distinct yet interrelated normative ends: opt…
Deep Fakes: A Looming Challenge for Privacy, Democracy, and National Security
Robert Chesney University of Texas School of Law Danielle Keats Citron University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law; Yale University - Yale Infor…
Europe has just hit Google with a record $5 billion fine. Expect fireworks.
The European Commission, which administers antitrust policy in the European Union, has just hit Google with a record fine of 4.34 billion euros ($5 billion U.S.…