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…
More than a few people maintain that if we all knew everything about each other, the world would be a better place. The total transparency argument takes many f…
This month, FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler revealed, in response to a letter from Congressman Alan Grayson, that his agency is assembling a task force “to combat the…
Cross-posted from Slate. Last week, the White House hired a head of the U.S. Digital Services to get the whole government to adopt technology processes like th…
With user trust at an all-time low, keeping the FBI’s hands off foreign users’ data seems like good business sense for U.S. companies. Microsoft says it’s fight…
Climate change is a significant and complex problem facing the world today. To solve the problem will require the coordinated efforts of both the public and pri…
Do you remember that day when you lost your mind? You aimed your car at five random people down the road. By the time you realized what you were doing, it was t…
Within the next few years, autonomous vehicles—alias robot cars—could be weaponized, the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) fears. In a recently disclosed…
For all the withering criticism leveled at the White House for its botched rollout of HealthCare.gov, that debacle is not the biggest technology-related failure…
TL;DR: A little bit, but not enough. Yesterday, the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB) issued a massive report about the legally and technolog…
Cross-posted from Recode. By Jules Polonetsky and Omer Tene Critics have spent the last few days castigating Facebook for a large-scale experiment conducted b…
Cross-posted from Wired. You didn’t know it, but Facebook used some of you to manipulate your friends. Even though you can’t anticipate how a company will int…
Forthcoming, Stanford Law Review, Volume 67, Issue 1 (2015) Public Law and Legal Theory Working Paper Series Research Paper No. 2459568 John M. Olin Program i…