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…
Cross-posted from Just Security. Lately the NSA has been on a public relations offensive that has two principal aims. First, the agency is trying to convince t…
Life before the Internet sucked. My life as a kid growing up in suburban Michigan consisted of urban sprawl, shopping malls, and bad television (except 30 minut…
Cross-posted from Privacy Association.org In his recent remarks on the NSA and surveillance, President Barack Obama grabbed the Big Data bull by the horns. We…
Cross-posted from Forbes. I am proud to say that I helped found the Robot Block Party in Silicon Valley. Now in its fifth year, the event brings together indu…
Cross-posted from Forbes. Mike Seay wants to know why he received a letter from OfficeMax OfficeMax that referred to the death of his daughter on the front of…
Richard Epstein’s office at the Hoover Institution is less than a mile from mine at Stanford Law School, and I’ve had the pleasure to hear Richard speak to the…
Cross-posted from Concurring Opinions. Criminalizing privacy invasions has a long history. In their ground-break article The Right to Privacy published in 1890…
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…
Cross-posted from The Atlantic. Privacy concerns have been ignited by “NameTag,” a facial-recognition app designed to reveal personal information after analyzi…
Within the context of the Centre for Copyright and New Business Models in the Creative Economy (CREATe) research scope, this literature review investigates the…
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…
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…