Hey Platforms: Add TAKE IT DOWN To Your Transparency Reports
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…
Publications
Data Privacy and Foundation Models: Can We Have Both?
This brief examines the privacy risks foundation models pose to individuals and society, and governance mechanisms needed to address them. Key Takeaways * F…
AI, Art, & Crime
In early February, I was on a fascinating panel put on by Helen Maria Nugent at CCA about AI and Art: Contemplating an Algorithmic Future, as part of CCA’s Afte…
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The Knockoff Economy: How Imitation Sparks Innovation
Book Website From the shopping mall to the corner bistro, knockoffs are everywhere in today's marketplace. Conventional wisdom holds that copying kills cre…
Internet Architecture and Innovation
Book Website MIT Press / 14 September 2012 (Paperback) MIT Press / 17 August 2010 (Hardcover) Today—following housing bubbles, bank collapses, and high unemplo…
How to build effective cyber defenses
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 Life, Death, and Revival of Implied Confidentiality
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…
Comments on BEREC’s Public Consultation on Network Neutrality, BoR (12) 32 - Guidelines for Quality of Service in the scope of Net Neutrality, BoR (12) 31 - Differentiation practices and related competition issues in the scope of Net Neutrality
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…
Comments on BEREC’s Public Consultation on Network Neutrality
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…
Government Needs a Trip to Startup Land
Government Needs a Trip to Startup Land: An article in Wired. * Publication Type:Other Writing * Publication Date:07/19/2012…
How America Can Get More Start-Up Talent
How America Can Get More Start-Up Talent: An article in The Atlantic. * Publication Type:Other Writing * Publication Date:06/21/2012…
Network Neutrality and Quality of Service: What a Non-Discrimination Rule Should Look Like
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
If You've Ever Sold a Used iPod, You May Have Violated Copyright Law: An article in The Atlantic. * Publication Type:Other Writing * Publication Date:06/…
On Banning Autonomous Lethal Systems: Human Rights, Automation and the Dehumanizing of Lethal Decision-making
This article considers the recent literature concerned with establishing an international prohibition on autonomous weapon systems. It seeks to address concerns…
Chain-Link Confidentiality
Disclosing personal information online often feels like losing control over one’s data forever; but this loss is not inevitable. This essay proposes a “chain-li…