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 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…
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…
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…
Cross-posted from Just Security. Last month, changes to the Wassenaar Arrangement on Export Controls for Conventional Arms and Dual-Use Goods and Technologies…
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…
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…
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…