The Columbia settlement is an “astonishing transfer of autonomy and authority to . . . an administration whose disdain for the values of the academy is demonstrated anew every day.” New @knightcolumbia.org analysis of the Columbia settlement, just published. knightcolumbia.org/blog/what-th...

There's still time to apply to present a paper at the Canadian Technology Law Conference! Just email your abstract and CV along by May 5. @suziedunn.bsky.social @schulichlaw.bsky.social @jenraso.bsky.social @f-mb.bsky.social @penney.bsky.social @schulichlaw.bsky.social

From concerns about social media addiction to urgent civil liberties issues, courts are asking scientists to be arbiters of alleged technology harms. How can scientists reliably inform courts and how can courts interpret our work? New article with @penney.bsky.social tsjournal.org/index.php/jo...

Really grateful to the Université de Montréal for organizing this roundtable on The Privacy Fallacy and to @penney.bsky.social @elanazeide.bsky.social @stzeitouni.bsky.social @cehaupt.bsky.social Nicolas Vermeys Pierre-Luc Deziel & Neil Richards for joining and sharing their fabulous interventions

Steve Levitsky, co-author of How Democracies Die "the U.S. is sliding toward a more 21st-century model of autocracy: competitive authoritarianism" www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv... "A failure to resist... could pave the way for authoritarian entrenchment" www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

A classic authoritarian move is to go after judges. I honestly did not think we would see it in the US because the system is already so politicized and Trump has a 6-3 majority. But here we are.

Check this interview out. @rondeibert.bsky.social and @citizenlab.ca at the Munk School are Canadian national treasures. youtu.be/x3z_R-oIRzg

President Trump delayed the U.S. #TikTok ban, but is his executive order legally sound? The Citizen Lab’s @penney.bsky.social writes for the @theglobeandmail.com, questioning whether the move addresses privacy issues or is purely about political power. www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

it really is appropriate to view this as potentially the biggest privacy and cybersecurity scandal in American history

I wrote about the the TikTok ban in the @theglobeandmail.com. I argue the ban is dead for a few reasons, but mostly because its' design failed to account for the new era that Trump's admin represents: persistent weaponization of tech and state power: www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

How can scientists provide courts with reliable evidence in tech litigation? @mwoluchem.bsky.social interviewed researchers, civil society, & litigators CAT Lab convened to ask this question. Here's her report: A Collective Front Toward Platform Accountability citizensandtech.org/2025/01/scie...

NGOs and individual experts, including Citizen Lab's @rondeibert.bsky.social, @noura.bsky.social, @penney.bsky.social, and Kate Robertson, urge Canada to reject the UN's draft Convention against Cybercrime in an open letter to @melaniejolycan.bsky.social, Hon Dominic LeBlanc & Hon Arif Virani.

Starter pack for faculty, adjuncts, staff, etc, at Osgoode Hall Law School: go.bsky.app/P28f8BK

Great to see the mass exodus from X, Threads, and other platforms to #Bluesky. For those interested in privacy and tech law, highly recommend Dan’s starter pack! bsky.app/profile/dani...

Couldn’t agree more. I mean, I’m reading @sarahjeong.bsky.social reporting from inside the National Assembly in Seoul. That’s what Twitter used to offer. bsky.app/profile/esqu...

that Korea does this, immediately, in the face of actual soldiers trying to impose martial law - when members of our own congress voted for a coup hours after the J6 mob stormed congress, and the coup instigator won the next election - is about as scathing an indictment of America as I’ve ever seen

I'm at the National Assembly building. The army is here. And I just saw two soldiers in fatigues getting pushed around by belligerent ajusshis. and they looked legit scared.

Great surveillance studies starter pack from @ubisurv.net go.bsky.app/HYGu6oX

Critical point here by @stamos.org; there’s nothing unique about @bsky.app that prevents it from these abuses. Need trust, safety, and security team/measures. bsky.app/profile/stam...

Don't limit the political perspectives you read, instead have an open mind and read the political perspectives served to you by the algorithm controlled by the billionaire right-hand man of the billionaire president-elect of the United States of America

Hard not to escape the conclusion that the Brazilian judicial system works better than its American equivalent

I don’t want to throw shade, but I would like the folks who kept telling us that there’s no evidence pervasive mis- and disinformation have negative impacts to account for the likelihood that prominent spreaders of BS will be running the agencies that protect public health, intelligence, etc.

"I don’t think there’s a trend towards actual conservatism in the Valley — there’s a trend towards monopoly and corruption, and that’s led a bunch of VCs directly to Trump." www.status.news/p/nilay-pate...

Also highly recommend Jacob’s First Amendment scholars list! jschrinerbriggs.bsky.social/post/3lbaptp5nns2a

There’s a reason so many academics are dismissive of the Trump/Musk/Vivek types and it’s that we’re all very aware of the Overconfident Bro Who Hasn’t Done the Reading But Still Wants to Lead the Discussion

This Thursday, I'll be back in Boston for a fantastic discussion on Feminist Cyberlaw with @levendowski.bsky.social, @lexlanham.bsky.social and others! Both in-person and live online: law.northeastern.edu/event/femini...

I created a Harvard BKC starter pack! Includes directors, staff, fellows, affiliates, faculty associates, etc. Follow for all the fine folks studying Internet & Society. And let me know if you should be on this list and I missed you :) go.bsky.app/nNdiLJ

We should acknowledge that MAGA and Trump’s victory were enabled by internet platforms whose business models reward fear and outrage. Dems had 8 yrs after FB enabled Trump and never had a floor vote in either chamber on a single bill that could possibly have addressed the harms. 🧵1/x

This looks like an important intervention: abortion bans' chilling effects are not only the result of legal indeterminacy but also a result of the decision to empower extremists as enforcers.

Great to see the mass exodus from X, Threads, and other platforms to #Bluesky. For those interested in privacy and tech law, highly recommend Dan’s starter pack! bsky.app/profile/dani...

How often does this happen?? We're advertising TWO tenure track positions @ the Munk School, University of Toronto. Both are connected to @citizenlab.ca One in Information Security jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-... The other in Social Sciences & Digital Security jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...

Come work with us @citizenlab.ca! We have a job opening for a System & Security Administrator. Never a dull day! We are looking for someone skilled and dedicated and ethical BONUS (especially for 🇺🇸 friends): you must live in Toronto, Canada. 🇨🇦 citizenlab.ca/2024/10/job-...

Check out the details in these newly unsealed court documents in the #whatsapp vs #NSOGroup litigation case. Some surprising findings ... some of which validate what we and others have been saying for years

I have thought about consent in privacy law for decades, and I think I’ve finally made a breakthrough in my article, “Murky Consent: An Approach to the Fictions of Consent in Privacy Law” ssrn.com/abstract=433...

Nice to see some mass migration from Twitter/Threads to #Bluesky at long last!

Critical new investigation by WIRED Magazine’s Dhruv Mehrotra (@dmehro.bsky.social) and Jesse Marx on police drone surveillance. I'm quoted in there on the chill and impact of such persistent and invasive observation. www.wired.com/story/the-ag...

Tomorrow, Alexis Shore and I will be talking about research we've done with @daniellecitron.bsky.social on the impact of intimate privacy protections at Harvard's Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society. Danielle, we'll do our best to rep our work! rebootingsocialmedia.org/events/platf...

article titles on links? brilliant sir I don’t know how you thought of it

I have a new op-ed out, co-authored with Bruce Schneier, in Slate (@slate.bsky.social) on AI Microdirectives -- the Future of AI and the Law. We argue that they will pose an unprecedented threat to rights and freedoms https://slate.com/technology/2023/07/artificial-intelligence-microdirectives.html

Must read piece by the always insightful @klonick.bsky.social

a thought on twitter spiraling + threads launch https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2023/07/threads-meta-twitter-competitor-mark-zuckerberg/674655/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

comedy is now legal on twitter

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