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…
Publications
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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John Oliver’s Hilarious Net Neutrality Piece Speaks the Truth
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…
Lessons from the Elliot Rodger Attack: Taking Online Threats Seriously
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…
Charges Against Chinese, and U.S. Policy on Hacking
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…
What the Debate About Internet Fast Lanes Is Missing
Cross-posted from Slate. Last Thursday, the FCC proposed authorizing Verizon to make an exclusive deal with MSNBC making it the exclusive premium news provider…
The Right Response to the “Right to Delete”
Cross-posted from Recode.net. Co-authored by Omer Tene and Jules Polonetsky. Last week’s decision by the European Court of Justice, requiring Google to delete…
Google Can’t Forget You, But It Should Make You Hard to Find
Cross-posted from Wired. Co-authored with Evan Selinger. As soon as news spread that the European Court of Justice now requires search engines like Google to…
Saving Privacy
Reed Hundt proposes democratic action in response to our government’s secret infrastructure for monitoring and controlling modern communications. “Citizens,” he…
Saving Privacy
Reed Hundt calls for alternatives to framing surveillance issues in terms of privacy versus security, but the hard fact is that we cannot avoid tradeoffs. We ha…
Snapchat and FTC Privacy and Security Consent Orders
Cross-posted from LinkedIn. Co-authored with Daniel Solove. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) recently entered into a consent order with the media service Sn…
The Case for Rebooting the Network Neutrality Debate
The Internet uproar about network neutrality tends to come in waves. Right now we’re riding the crest of one. In the two weeks since Federal Communications Com…
The Robot Car of Tomorrow May Just Be Programmed to Hit You
Suppose that an autonomous car is faced with a terrible decision to crash into one of two objects. It could swerve to the left and hit a Volvo sport utility veh…
The FCC Chairman’s Many Excuses
Cross-posted from Slate. A few years ago, Internet users, democracy activists, and entrepreneurs got wind of a proposed law, SOPA, that would have changed the…