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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The rediscovery of this writer in the Renaissance opened the way to the modern world (and, more important, the invention of political science)
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…
The Atlantic Divide on Privacy and Speech
Neil M. Richards Washington University in Saint Louis - School of Law Kirsty Hughes University of Cambridge Andrew T Kenyon (ed), Comparative Defamation and…
Facebook wasn’t great at respecting privacy in the first place. It’s gotten much worse.
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…
The End of the Internet Dream
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…
Opinion: Twitter's privacy blunder
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…
Europe is being torn by an angry argument. This time, it’s not the euro’s fault.
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…
The dangers of trusting robots
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…
Ban Killer Robots before They Become Weapons of Mass Destruction
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…
Privacy and Markets: A Love Story
Abstract: Law and economics tends to be skeptical of privacy, finding privacy overrated, inefficient, and perhaps even immoral. Law should not protect privacy…
Open Letter to the Sponsors of the Revised Defend Trade Secrets Act
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…
'First We Pray, Then We Organize' The Unlikely Coalition for Net Neutrality
This article first appeared on The Huffington Post. On Tuesday, July 28th, a diverse group of faith leaders and advocates posted the same video on the Twitter…
With your tattoos and topknots, who do you think you are?
Ezra Klein and Paul Krugman are having a friendly argument about hipster topknots and tattoos (full disclosure: I played an indirect role in the prehistory of t…