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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Racial surveillance has a long history
The path from Laquan McDonald’s summary execution by Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke to the reluctant release — over a year later — by the Chicago Police…
Regulatory environment for platforms, online intermediaries, data and cloud computing and the collaborative economy
Submission to the European Commission. Includes Supplemental response to “Should action taken by hosting service providers remain effective over time ("ta…
The Weekly Standard makes a fact-free argument about political science. Here are some facts.
Over at the Weekly Standard, Steven Hayward has a new piece arguing that political science is on its last legs. His main evidence is that Stanford University’s…
The Weekly Standard makes a fact-free argument about political science. Here are some facts.
Over at the Weekly Standard, Steven Hayward has a new piece arguing that political science is on its last legs. His main evidence is that Stanford University’s…
Keeping Secrets
What ifyour research could help solve a looming national problem, but government officials thought publishing it would be tantamount to treason? A Stanford prof…
The Building Blocks of Hybrid Justice
The commission of mass atrocities — genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes — inevitably generates clarion calls for accountability from a range of in…
The Many Faces of Complicity in International Law
This paper captures remarks made at the 2015 Annual Meeting of the American Society of International Law on a panel devoted to exploring the scope of complicity…
Crimes Against Humanity: Repairing Title 18's Blind Spots
This is a contribution to a feshrift devoted to Professor William Schabas. It takes as its starting point President Obama's atrocities prevention and respon…
Here’s how Washington weaponized America’s IT companies and why it backfired
Two months ago, the European Court of Justice issued a ruling that effectively invalidated the Safe Harbor arrangement, an agreement that big U.S. multinational…
OmniCISA Pits DHS Against the FCC and FTC on User Privacy
On Friday, Congress will vote on a mutated version of security threat sharing legislation that had previously passed through the House and Senate. These earlier…
T-Mobile Is Likely Violating Net Neutrality
Earlier this year, the Federal Communications Commission adopted a much-celebrated net neutrality order, which is now on appeal before a federal court. That dec…
The Transatlantic Data War
Last October, the European Court of Justice struck down the Safe Harbor agreement, a 15-year-old transatlantic arrangement that permitted U.S. companies to tran…