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 Bloomberg View. When Facebook Inc. recently lifted its restriction on public posts by teenagers, some privacy scholars applauded the move as…
Cross-posted from Just Security. Ongoing revelations show that significant NSA surveillance activities take place outside of either Foreign Intelligence Survei…
Cross-posted from The Atlantic. If a small tree branch pokes out onto a highway and there’s no incoming traffic, we’d simply drift a little into the opposite l…
Thank you for reading my posts this week. If you happen to be Eugene Volokh or Ken Anderson, thank you in particular for making them possible. And if you were o…
Cross-posted from The Volokh Conspiracy. The automated motor vehicles that I have discussed this week are just one example of the remarkable technologies comin…
Cross-posted from Volokh Conspiracy. A common debate in many circles–including the comments on my posts here–is whether legal burdens, technical limitations, o…
Cross-posted from Volokh Conspiracy. Since the 1950s, the Long Beach Freeway has linked the massive Ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles to, roughly, the rest o…
A new bipartisan bill co-sponsored by two of the most vocal critics of the NSA does not go far enough to protect the average non-U.S. person from indiscriminate…
Cross-posted from Volokh Conspiracy. I’m delighted to be spending this week committing overt acts in furtherance of the Volokh Conspiracy. Since joining Stanfo…
This post is one in a series of posts from Just Security‘s Jennifer Granick and Guest Author Orin Kerr debating the constitutionality of the NSA’s telephony met…
This post is the first in a series of posts from Just Security‘s Jennifer Granick and Guest Author Orin Kerr debating the constitutionality of the NSA’s telepho…
Cross-posted from Slate. Last week, in the midst of ongoing NSA secret spying revelations ranging from billion-dollar efforts to make the private accessible to…