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…
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…
Cross-posted from Just Security. Today, the Supreme Court unanimously invalidated warrantless searches of cell phones incident to arrest in Riley v. California…
Cross-posted from Forbes. Under the name “Foss Dark,” University of Washington student Keshav Bhide wrote online: Everything Elliot did is perfectly justified…
Cross-posted from Wired. The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals said no this week to tracking your movements using data from your cell phone without a warrant w…
Cross-posted from Slate. Last Sunday, on John Oliver's new HBO show Last Week Tonight, the former Daily Show fixture introduced net neutrality to millions…
Cross-posted from Forbes. To New York Times reporter Jennifer Medina, Professor Adam Winkler wisely remarked that although there isn’t an easy solution to mass…
Cross-posted from The New York Times Opinion Pages. To the Editor: Re “5 in China Army Face U.S. Charges of Cyberattacks” (front page, May 20): On Monday, fe…