The Fight to Repair
How the battle over the right to repair is tipping in favor of consumers.
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Breaking Up a Digital Monopoly
Our proposal rests on the notion that distribution of public discourse and other acquired content serves the common good of the community of content providers and consumers.
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Security by Labeling
Consumer cybersecurity can no longer be ignored.
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Trust, Regulation, and Human-in-the-Loop AI: within the European region
The E.U. is an early mover in the race to regulate AI, and with the draft E.U. AI Act, it has adopted an assurance-based regulatory environment using yet-to-be-defined AI assurance standards.
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Epic Versus Apple and the Future of App Stores
What we need to do … is find a more equitable way to govern these marketplaces and share the wealth they are creating.
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Monetizing Your Personal Data
Considering issues around data brokers that enable consumers to collect revenue from the use of their personal data.
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The Push for Stricter Rules for Internet Platforms
Considering the origins, interpretations, and possible changes to Communications Decency Act § 230 amid an evolving online environment.
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Commerce Department announces new rule aimed at stemming sale of hacking tools to Russia and China
“We’re trying to walk the line between not impairing legitimate cybersecurity collaboration across borders, but trying to make sure these pieces of hardware and software technology aren’t obtained and used by repressive governments,” the senior official said.
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AI Ethics: A Call to Faculty
To say that AI, today, is a technical discipline is entirely naive: it is a social, worldwide experiment. Our tools have teeth that cut into the everyday lives of all, and this leaves a collection of engineers and scientists in the awkward position of having far more impact on the future than is their due.
…But AI ethics is not the science of ethics, but rather shorthand for the notion of applying ethical considerations to issues surfaced by AI technologies: surveillance, information ownership, privacy, emotional manipulation, agency, autonomous military operations, and so forth.
She risked everything to expose Facebook. Now she’s telling her story.
Sophie Zhang, a former data scientist at Facebook, revealed that it enables global political manipulation and has done little to stop it.
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CyberLaw Podcast
The Cyberlaw Podcast is a weekly interview series and discussion on the latest events in technology, security, privacy, and government. The podcast is hosted by Steptoe & Johnson LLP partner Stewart Baker, who is joined by a wide variety of guests including academics, politicians, authors, and reporters. You can subscribe to the podcast here. It is also available on iTunes, Google Play, Spotify and other podcast platforms.
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Weighing the Impact of GDPR
Communications of the ACM, November 2018
By Samuel Greengard
“When the European Union (EU) General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) went into effect on May 25, 2018, it represented the most sweeping effort yet to oversee the way businesses collect and manage consumer data. The law, established to create consistent data standards and protect EU citizens from potential privacy abuses, sent ripples—if not tidal waves—across the world.”
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Being Recognized Everywhere
Communications of the ACM, February 2019
By Logan Kugler
“A core challenge for democratic governments will be continued adherence to the rule of law, where restrictions on individual liberty that flow from use of this technology must be justified by necessity, legitimate purpose, and use of the least restrictive means available.”
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The End of Privacy Began in the 1960s
The New York Times, Dec. 5, 2018
Opinion by Margaret O’Mara
“In the fall of 1965, President Lyndon Johnson’s administration announced a plan to consolidate hundreds of federal databases into one centralized National Data Bank. It was meant as an efficiency move to make the Great Society even greater.”
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