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 ContractsProf Blog. This is the first in a series of posts on Nancy Kim's Wrap Contracts: Foundations and Ramifications (Oxford UP 2013).…
Cross-posted from Forbes. Thursday felt like drone day. The Federal Aviation Administration released both its roadmap (PDF) to integrate private drones into d…
During the course of a long-distance relationship, Holly Jacobs shared sexually explicit photos and videos with her ex-boyfriend. She trusted him to keep them p…
Cross-posted from Foreign Affairs. PATENT PROGRESS In their essay “Fake It Till You Make It” (July/August 2013), Kal Raustiala and Christopher Sprigman urged…
Excited teenagers – in other words normal teenagers – have never been famous for consistently wise decisions, nor should they be. Trial and error is a critical…
Cross-posted from Wired Opinion. Net neutrality is a dead man walking. The execution date isn’t set, but it could be days, or months (at best). And since net n…
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…