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If there’s a robot in your house, chances are it’s a Roomba. But that could be about to change. A new generation of home robots is coming—adorable, loaded with contemporary artificial intelligence and designed to charm their way into your family.
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…
This brief examines the privacy risks foundation models pose to individuals and society, and governance mechanisms needed to address them.
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[This post has been updated to reflect the fact that the European Court of Human Rights has ruled that Italy’s involvement in the rendition violated its obligat…
The chief political aide of Marine Le Pen, the leader of France’s far-right National Front party and candidate for the French presidential election, has just be…
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These comments were prepared and submitted in response to the U.S. Copyright Office's November 8, 2016 Notice of Inquiry requesting additional pub…
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Though scholars have identified the expanding scope of First Amendment speech doctrine, little attention has been paid to the theoretical transformati…
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This article maps ICANN’s ambivalent drift into online content regulation through its contractual facilitation of a “trusted notifier” copyright enfor…
Does the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence understand intelligence gathering?
After all, that committee is charged with oversight over the Unite…
This article discusses the resistance to the Digital Revolution and the emergence of a social movement “resisting the resistance.” Mass empowerment has politica…
There has been much well-deserved criticism of President Trump’s Executive Order imposing a Muslim Ban on entry into the United States and the chaotic and non-d…
Having access to the internet is increasingly considered to be an emerging human right. International organizations and national governments have begun to forma…
Forthcoming in the Berkeley Technology Law Journal
The so-called “Right to Be Forgotten” established by the Court of Justice of the European Union in 2014 is a…
In the information society, the role of private sector entities in gathering information for and about users has long been a most critical issue. Therefore, int…
How Governments Can Promote Automated Driving recommended that governments conduct “legal audits” to “identify and analyze every statute and regulation that cou…