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…
Publications
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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T-Mobile's Binge On Violates Key Net Neutrality Principles
Executive Summary In November 2015, T-Mobile, the third largest provider of mobile Internet access in the U.S., launched a new service called Binge On that off…
Apple may owe Ireland $19 billion, but Ireland doesn’t want the money. Here’s why.
Depending on the outcome of an official investigation, Apple may face a bill that is estimated at between $8 billion and $19 billion for underpaid taxes to the…
Opinion: Forget about Safe Harbor. Modernize global privacy law instead
There's a widening transatlantic divide regarding privacy rights that needs to be bridged – and soon. But instead of coming up with another version of the…
The new, worse ‘right to be forgotten’
The General Data Protection Regulation — a once-in-a-generation overhaul of Europe’s data protection laws — has landed, after a grueling four years of negotiat…
The Government Shouldn’t Distribute Child Pornography. Period.
Participating in the distribution of child pornography is a federal crime. But that’s exactly what the F.B.I. did in this case. In order to identify more than 1…
“Ideating” on ISIS and Silicon Valley
In a lot of Silicon Valley meetings, participants “iterate,” “ideate,” and “sync,” and do other buzzwordy things. Every once in a while something innovative and…
International Justice Year-in-Review: Looking Backwards, Looking Forwards (Part 2)
Editor’s Note: We asked editors Beth Van Schaack and Alex Whiting to do a roundup of the top international criminal justice stories from 2015 and what readers s…
Trusting Big Data Research
Abstract: Although it might puzzle or even infuriate data scientists, suspicion about big data is understandable. The concept doesn’t seem promising to most pe…
Bill O’Reilly will flee to Ireland if Sanders is elected. He’s in for a shock.
Bill O’Reilly, the host of Fox News’s “The O’Reilly Factor,” is threatening to flee the country if Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont — the self-described democrati…
James Comey’s Default-Encryption Bogeyman
FBI Director James Comey recently told the Senate Judiciary Committee that encryption routinely poses a problem for law enforcement. He stated that encryption h…
When Toasters Attack: A Polycentric Approach to Enhancing the ‘Security of Things’
Scott Shackelford Indiana University - Kelley School of Business - Department of Business Law; Stanford Law School; Hoover Institution, Stanford University; Ce…
Content Is Content, No Matter How Small
Recently, Orin Kerr and I had a brief conversation on Twitter regarding the Fourth Amendment and the content/non-content distinction. Specifically, Orin asked t…