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 Conversation: Time to Mobilize for Cyberwar
Cross posted from the Sacramento Bee. Iran's drive to become a nuclear power hinges partly on a facility outside the small mountain town of Natanz. Accordi…
Why Obama Should Run Against the Supreme Court
Recently, there has been considerable debate over whether President Obama should run against the Supreme Court as part of his reelection campaign. High-ranking…
Infrastructure: The Social Value of Shared Resources
Book Website Infrastructure resources are the subject of many contentious public policy debates, including what to do about crumbling roads and bridges, whethe…
To Track or “Do Not Track”: Advancing Transparency and Individual Control in Online Behavioral Advertising
Authors: Omer Tene & Jules Polonetsky From the Minnesota Journal of Law, Science & Technology Voume 13, Issue 1, Winter 2012. * Publication Type:Aca…
Megaupload Indictment Leaves Everyone Guessing - Part 2
Daily/Journal Op/Ed The first part of this article outlined the mechanics of the Megaupload website, and the novel questions of criminal inducement on which th…
Megaupload.com Indictment Leaves Everyone Guessing - Part 1
Daily/Journal Op/Ed Days after anti-piracy legislation stalled in Congress, the U.S. Department of Justice coordinated an unprecedented raid on the Hong Kong-b…
Third-Party Web Tracking: Policy and Technology
John Mitchell and I have written a new paper that synthesizes research on policy and technology issues surrounding third-party web tracking. It will appear at t…
The Social Layer of Freedom of Information Law
It is now received wisdom that a properly functioning democracy requires transparency and accountability — information shared with the public that allows the pu…
Communia and the European Public Domain Project: A Politics of the Public Domain
Digital technology has made culture more accessible than ever before. Texts, audio, pictures and video can easily be produced, disseminated, used and remixed us…
Valuing Attribution and Publication in Intellectual Property
This is the third in a series of articles focusing on the experimental economics of intellectual property. In earlier work, we have experimentally studied the w…
Free Speech Architecture: Normative Aspects (#8)
Free Speech Architecture: Normative Aspects (#8). From article in Concurring Opinions. * Publication Type:Other Writing * Publication Date:02/14/2012…
Free Speech Architecture: Universal Access to Speech Spaces (#7)
Free Speech Architecture: Universal Access to Speech Spaces (#7): A blog post in Concurring Opinions. * Publication Type:Other Writing * Publication Date:02/…