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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.
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For two years, network neutrality, the nation’s most high-profile and contentious Internet policy conflict has taken a backseat to other debates—privacy investi…
Bryant Walker Smith and Tom Gasser address the legal complexities that could threaten to bedevil the automated vehicle program.
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From the shopping mall to the corner bistro, knockoffs are everywhere in today's marketplace. Conventional wisdom holds that copying kills cre…
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Today—following housing bubbles, bank collapses, and high unemplo…
An op-ed from CNN.
Top Obama administration officials have been pressing the U.S. Congress hard for legislation to improve network security for the computer sy…
The concept of implied confidentiality has deep legal roots, but it has been largely ignored by the law in online-related disputes. A closer look reveals that i…
I welcome the opportunity to comment on BEREC’s Public Consultation on Network Neutrality. I submit these comments as a professor of law and, by courtesy, elect…
I welcome the opportunity to comment on BEREC’s Public Consultation on Network Neutrality. I submit these comments as a professor of law and, by courtesy, elect…
Over the past ten years, the debate over "network neutrality" has remained one of the central debates in Internet policy. Governments all over the wor…
If You've Ever Sold a Used iPod, You May Have Violated Copyright Law: An article in The Atlantic.
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