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. Key Takeaways * F…
Imagine if the inventor of the Segway claimed to own "any thing that moves in response to human commands." Or if the inventor of the telegraph applied…
BY DANIELLE KEATS CITRON , MARAM SALAHELDIN When a person’s confidential data is exposed in violation of a legitimate expectation of privacy, it shouldn’t matt…
The work of the the Roman writer Lucretius was lost to the world for more than a thousand years. When his poem “De Rerum Natura” was rediscovered in the Renaiss…
Neil M. Richards Washington University in Saint Louis - School of Law Kirsty Hughes University of Cambridge Andrew T Kenyon (ed), Comparative Defamation and…
Facebook’s privacy practices have always been controversial. It doesn’t charge its users–because its users are the product. The company sells information on its…
Earlier this month Jennifer Granick was the keynote speaker at Black Hat 2015. This is a modified version of the speech she delivered. A video of the speech is…
By Evan Selinger, Columnist and Woodrow Hartzog, Contributor If you want marketers to listen even more intently to what you’re saying online, you’ll be happy t…
Over the last few weeks, the European Union has been torn apart by bitter disagreement over a new crisis: the huge numbers of refugees and migrants who are turn…
In February, a South Korean woman was sleeping on the floor when her robot vacuum ate her hair, forcing her to call for emergency help. It may not be the dystop…
Last week the Future of Life Institute released a letter signed by some 1,500 artificial intelligence (AI), robotics and technology researchers. Among them were…
Abstract: Law and economics tends to be skeptical of privacy, finding privacy overrated, inefficient, and perhaps even immoral. Law should not protect privacy…
VIA EMAIL TO THE SPONSORS OF THE DEFEND TRADE SECRETS ACT An open letter to the sponsors of the revised Defend Trade Secrets Act: We write to express our cont…