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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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Since the enactment of the first safe harbours and liability exemptions for online intermediaries, market conditions have radically changed. Originally, interme…
For more than forty years, electronic surveillance law in the United States has drawn a strong distinction between the protections afforded to communications &q…
With all the news around President Donald Trump taking office, and the mass protests, controversial executive orders, and pending lawsuits that followed, it may…
On Jan. 25, 2017, The Economist reported that United States had been downgraded from a “full democracy” to a “flawed democracy.” Coincidentally, on the same day…
With power comes responsibility. In their new duties, Trump administration officials will need to consider the legal hazards associated with supporting foreign…
The recent tumult around the emergence of a dossier suggesting salacious things about President Donald Trump has cast light on a series of for-profit intelligen…
As a new presidential administration takes over, it will need to pay significant attention to cybersecurity. Indeed, we’ve already been told to expect “a compre…
When Donald Trump visited the CIA over the weekend to make a speech, many commentators noted that his audience clapped and cheered enthusiastically. Now, accord…
Protesters call attention to economic, environmental, racial, gender-based and other forms of injustice. For journalists covering political movements, reporting…