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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Can Americans Resist Surveillance?
Abstract This essay analyzes the ability of everyday Americans to resist and alter the conditions of government surveillance. Americans appear to have several…
A jail for babies: Absurdity and abuse at the American border
The government’s approach at the edge of our nation, our southern border, mirrors the way we think of the edge of our own consciousness: a dark place to hide ou…
The FBI’s Problem Isn’t “Going Dark.” Its Problem is Going Slowly
It should be clear to even casual observers today that the “golden age of surveillance” thesis is fundamentally correct. We live in a time when far more data an…
Real Family Values: Planning for a Future that Ensures Dignity for an Aging Population
In the coming years, our nation will face myriad challenges related to the care of the growing number of aging Americans. Elder care encompasses many things, fr…
The Iran deal reflects the U.S.’s overwhelming power over the world’s financial system
There is good reason to believe that Iran was prepared to reach a deal over its nuclear program because it was tired of dealing with U.S. sanctions. In Presiden…
The euro zone was supposed to strengthen European democracy. Instead, it’s undermining it.
Is the euro weakening democracy in Europe? After tense and bitter negotiations, Greece and the other euro zone countries (countries that share the common curre…
Hacking Team leak underscores complexity of regulating software
Among the 400 gigabytes of internal documents belonging to surveillance firm Hacking Team that were released online this week are details of the company's d…
Other Europeans say they can’t trust Greece. The problem goes both ways.
Yet again, Greece is in last ditch negotiations with other European states in the euro zone, the group of countries that share the common currency, over a propo…
Opinion: Vaccination of immigrants without consent in Dilley was flagrant abuse
On the evening of Friday July 3, we became aware of a particular incident of our government’s systematic mistreatment of hundreds of young, captive children and…
Copyright's Digital Deputies: DMCA-Plus Enforcement by Internet Intermediaries
Abstract: In the years since passage of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (“DMCA”), the copyright industries have demanded that online intermediaries — both…
Preparedness Insanity: Why We Need To Think Differently About How To Measure Preparedness
By: Terry Hastings and Brian Nussbaum Since 9/11, there have been billions of federal grant dollars awarded to state and local governments and an ongoing quest…
Wikimedians urge the EU to protect freedom of panorama
BY STEPHEN LAPORTE AND AERYN PALMER The ability to freely share information of all kinds, from text to images, is core to Wikimedia’s mission of making all kno…