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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Obama Policy on Zero Days Craps Out
Yesterday afternoon, the White House put out a statement describing its vulnerability disclosure policies: the contentious issue of whether and when government…
The Changing Attitudes Towards Cyber Gender Harassment: Anonymous as a Guide?
In 2007 technologist Kathy Sierra faced graphic rape and death threats on her blog Creating Passionate Users and in her email inbox. Around the same time group…
The FCC’s New Net Neutrality Proposal Is Even Worse Than You Think
In 2008 and 2012, President Obama campaigned on the incredibly popular idea of network neutrality—a law that would forbid phone and cable companies from changin…
How Technology Broke Privacy
One of the greatest challenges of living in the future is that it mostly looks just like the present. We have self-driving cars, commercial spaceflight, powerfu…
Eternal vigilance is a solvable technology problem: A proposal for streamlined privacy alerts
Consider three recent news articles about online privacy: Google+ added a new feature that shows view counts on everything you post, including your photos. It’…
Debunking the First Amendment Myths Surrounding Revenge Porn Laws
Disclosing someone’s nude image in violation of trust and confidence (often known as nonconsensual pornography or revenge porn) is a destructive invasion of pri…
Letter to the Marlene H. Dortch, Secretary, Federal Communications Commission, Notice of Ex Parte Meeting, GN Docket, Nos. 09-191 & 14-28 (2014)
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Protecting Sexual Privacy with Law
Technological change is at the heart of much information privacy law. Recall privacy law’s beginning. In 1890, Samuel Warren and Louis Brandeis, then law partne…
Yes, Net Neutrality Is A Solution To An Existing Problem
While AT&T, Comcast, and Verizon have argued -- with incredible message discipline -- that network neutrality is "a solution in search of a problem,&qu…
5 Key Quotes from the FTC v. Wyndham Decision on Data Security
Cross-posted from LinkedIn. This post was co-authored by Professor Daniel Solove. The long-awaited federal district court opinion in FTC v. Wyndham was finall…
The FTC as Data Security Regulator: FTC v. Wyndham and Its Implications
Co-authored with Daniel Solove. In the field of data security law, hardly any case has had as much at stake as Federal Trade Commission v. Wyndham. The FTC has…
Who Will Pay for the Zero Marginal Cost Society?
Jeremy Rifkin's book, The Zero Marginal Cost Society, is at times thrilling, at times encyclopedic, and at times possibly hyperbolic. It is very well-writte…