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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Atrocious Privacy Invasion: Non-Consensual Videotaping of Sex Indicted in NY
Cross-posted from Concurring Opinions. Criminalizing privacy invasions has a long history. In their ground-break article The Right to Privacy published in 1890…
Told Ya So: NSA's Collection Of Metadata Is Screamingly Illegal
This post is coauthored by Christopher Sprigman. We told you so. This week’s report from the independent Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, or PCLOB…
I See You: The Databases That Facial-Recognition Apps Need to Survive
Cross-posted from The Atlantic. Privacy concerns have been ignited by “NameTag,” a facial-recognition app designed to reveal personal information after analyzi…
Open Access Publishing: A Literature Review
Within the context of the Centre for Copyright and New Business Models in the Creative Economy (CREATe) research scope, this literature review investigates the…
What If Your Autonomous Car Keeps Routing You Past Krispy Kreme?
Cross-posted from The Atlantic. On a future road trip, your robot car decides to take a new route, driving you past a Krispy Kreme Doughnut shop. A pop-up wind…
OfficeMax Letter To 'Daughter Killed In Car Crash' Could Be Privacy's Whale Song
Cross-posted from Forbes. The anti-whaling movement failed and failed, until it didn’t. The movement took off when, in the late nineteen-sixties, scientists a…
Internet Freedom Day: This Year We Go to War for Net Neutrality
The loss of net neutrality this week was even bigger than expected. This time of year is always the worst of times and best of times for internet freedom. Inte…
Promote Transparency, Secure the Internet, and Codify the Reforms
Cross-posted from Slate. The president on Friday will give a long-awaited speech addressing what he intends to do about National Security Agency surveillance p…
Changes to Export Control Arrangement Apply to Computer Exploits and More
Cross-posted from Just Security. Last month, changes to the Wassenaar Arrangement on Export Controls for Conventional Arms and Dual-Use Goods and Technologies…
The Net Neutrality Battle Has Been Lost
Cross-posted from Slate. The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals just issued its long-awaited decision striking down the FCC’s network neutrality rule. This is the s…
They're watching. How can that be a good thing?
Cross-posted from Stanford Magazine. WHAT IS IT ABOUT ROBOTS? Our fascination with these machines dates back centuries. The ancient Greeks built them. Robots h…
New Report Questions Value of Section 702 Warrantless Surveillance
Cross-posted from Just Security. Today over at the New America Foundation, researchers have published a paper examining the role of dragnet programs in the Uni…