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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Here's How Tesla Solves A Self-Driving Crash Dilemma
With very rare exceptions, automakers are famously coy about crash dilemmas. They don’t want to answer questions about how their self-driving cars would respon…
Free Police Body Cameras Come With a Price
On Wednesday, Taser International announced it is changing its name to Axon—and that it is offering every police department in the United States free body camer…
Why You Shouldn’t Be Comforted by Internet Providers’ Promises to Protect Your Privacy
This week President Trump signed a congressional resolution to repeal protections—scheduled to go into effect in December 2017—that would have prevented interne…
Reforming Surveillance In the Age of Donald Trump
On Wednesday, the Republican chair of the House Intelligence Committee, Devin Nunes (R-CA), gave a press conference in which he reported that Trump transition t…
Republicans claim Trump may have been surveilled through ‘incidental collection.’ What’s incidental collection?
The Republican chair of the House Intelligence Committee, Devin Nunes has just said that Donald Trump’s communications were likely picked up by US intelligence…
Supreme Court Says Patent Trolls Can Wait A While Before Suing
In a ruling this week that will cheer up patent trolls, the Supreme Court said patent owners can lie in wait for years before suing. This will allow trolls to s…
Closing the Loop: Sabrina De Sousa Pardoned for Role in CIA Torture and Rendition
"Just a quick note to close the loop on the Sabrina De Sousa case, which I discussed in greater detail here. On the day before she was to be extradited to…
Ukraine Update: the ICJ Proceedings & Options for Justice in the United States
With the Congressional hearings on Russia dominating the news, this post provides an update on proceedings before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in th…
Trump won’t allow you to use iPads or laptops on certain airlines. Here’s why.
From Tuesday on, passengers traveling to the U.S. from 10 airports in eight Muslim-majority countries will not be allowed to have iPads, laptops or any communic…
How companies can stay ahead of the cybersecurity curve
If you’re like me, on a given day you interact with a whole range of connected technologies for work and play. Just today, I used Box to share and download file…
Sean Spicer just suggested that Obama used British intelligence to spy on Trump. Britain isn’t happy.
In his daily press briefing yesterday, White House press secretary Sean Spicer repeated a claim that President Barack Obama had used British spies to surveil Pr…
The Resistance Must Be Digitized
Over the past two months, millions of people have taken to the streets to challenge our nation’s authoritarian new president. From the women’s marches that too…