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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Trademark Use Doctrine in the European Union and Japan
Trademark Use Doctrine in the European Union and Japan Martin Husovec Tilburg University - Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology, and Society (TILT); Tilburg…
What the Past of Robotics Law Says About Its Future
One day, robots will present difficult legal challenges. This seems to be the consensus among commentators. And who am I to disagree? I have myself argued, righ…
This is how unethical financial advisers can get away with it
Economists Mark Egan, Gregor Matvos and Amit Seru have an eye-opening new academic research paper on the “market for financial adviser misconduct.” They use dat…
Here Be Dragons
A Review of Adam Segal's The Hacked World Order (PublicAffairs, 2016). There have been many books written on cybersecurity over the last several years—this…
Trump will win or lose. Either way, the Koch network will still shape the Republican Party.
Last week, Marc Short, who had played a key role in the politically active billionaire Koch brothers’ organization Freedom Partners, moved to a senior role in R…
Computer security is necessary for journalist safety
EDITOR'S NOTE: This article was originally published, in Spanish, in El País. This week, journalists, technologists, and other human rights advocates will…
The iPhone Case and the Future of Civil Liberties
It is not often that a legal battle over smartphone firmware captures the national imagination, but such is the case as the FBI tries to access the data contain…
Apple v the FBI: why the 1789 All Writs Act is the wrong tool
Apple’s celebrated fight with the FBI over the security of its encrypted iPhones has shone the spotlight on an old and obscure federal law from 1789 known as th…
Robots in American Law
Abstract: This article closely examines a half century of case law involving robots—just in time for the technology itself to enter the mainstream. Most of the…
Iraq & Syria: Prospects for Accountability
On February 10, 2016, the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission convened a Congressional briefing devoted to the topic of advancing accountability for the commissi…
Who Sets the Rules of the Privacy and Security Game?
Last week’s big cybersecurity news was that the FBI obtained a court order to force Apple to develop new software that would bypass several iPhone security feat…
“More Than a Domestic Mechanism”: Options for Hybrid Justice in Sri Lanka
For nearly three decades, the government of Sri Lanka fought with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), but after years of resistance, the new government…