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…
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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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Conservative professors live a closeted life. Here’s why.
Jon A. Shields and Joshua M. Dunn Jr. are the authors of Passing on the Right: Conservative Professors in The Progressive University, a new book from Oxford Uni…
The Panama Papers and Thomas Piketty
The Panama Papers—the massive collection of leaked documents from Mossack Fonseca, a Panamanian law firm that helps set up offshore shell corporations—have alre…
This new book explains why so many Islamist extremists have studied engineering
Diego Gambetta and Steffen Hertog’s new book, “Engineers of Jihad: The Curious Connection between Violent Extremism and Education,” examines why a disproportion…
Dr. Peter Asaro on Drone Technology in Eye in the Sky
I have been asked by Science & Film to review the realism of EYE IN THE in terms of the new technologies we see deployed in the film. Most of the technologi…
Here’s What the Burr-Feinstein Anti-Crypto Bill Gets Wrong
The latest Crypto War is being fought on multiple fronts: behind closed doors, in thecourts, and now in Congress. On April 13, Sens. Richard Burr (R-NC) and Dia…
A Financial Times columnist says that taxes have nothing to do with fairness. Here’s why he’s wrong.
One of the people to suffer fallout from the Panama Papers leak is David Cameron, Britain’s prime minister. After a few days of equivocation, he was forced to a…
How Governments Can Clear the Road for Self-Driving Cars
So you've decided that your state should have self-driving cars. How, then, do you catch the attention of the Googles, Volvos and Navyas of the world that a…
A massive leak just revealed how the super-rich hide their money. Here’s what you need to know.
The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists has started to release information based on a massive leak of information from a secretive Panamanian…
U.S. Copyright Office Section 512 Study: Comments in Response to Notice of Inquiry
Authored by Annemarie Bridy and Daphne Keller Abstract: These comments were prepared and submitted in response to the U.S. Copyright Office's December 31,…
How RightsCon brings press freedom, technology and social change together
This week in San Francisco, CPJ's Technology and Advocacy teams will participate in RightsCon 2016, an annual conference focusing on human rights and techno…
Businesses and Cyber Peace: We Need You!
Abstract: Rarely does a day seem to go by without another front page story about a firm being breached by cyber attackers. Even experts in the field are far fr…
This is the 100th anniversary of Ireland’s Easter Rising. What was the Easter Rising?
Today, Irish people are commemorating the 1916 Easter Rising, the failed rebellion that led a few years later to Irish independence. Here’s what you need to kno…