Generative AI models offered by major AI companies are used by tens of millions of people every day, and we should encourage them to make their models as safe as they possibly can” says @stanfordhai.bsky.social Tech Policy Fellow @riana.bsky.social via @techpolicypress.bsky.social bit.ly/46E9oRn

@hartzog.bsky.social and @markpmckenna.bsky.social argue for more precision in their references to “scale” in regards to technology. Differentiating between “scale as more” and “scale as different” H & M suggest they have different implications for regulation papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

FTC vs Amazon opens this week over dark patterns - design tricks that make you accidentally subscribe and struggle to cancel. "The question is when design crosses the line where a reasonable consumer doesn't have a fair shot of understanding what's going on" says @andreamm.bsky.social bit.ly/4mvJV2f

CIS Affiliate Alex Feerst argues that learning - by humans or AI - isn't a copyright-relevant act in his latest Foundation for American Innovation paper. "Regulate outputs, not inputs; legalize learning." www.thefai.org/posts/promot...

@stanfordhai.bsky.social fellow @riana.bsky.social joins the @techdirt.com podcast to go even deeper into the legal weeds and explain how the recent FTC settlement with Aylo, the parent company of multiple adult websites, could doom criminal CSAM cases www.techdirt.com/2025/09/23/t...

xAI workers training Grok report encountering CSAM requests due to the company's approach allowing explicit content, unlike other AI companies that block such requests. "If you don't draw a hard line at anything unpleasant, you have a more complex problem" says @riana.bsky.social bit.ly/4gyVbcK

The title of this post from @riana.bsky.social says it all. This is a blazing big deal for the 4th Amendment. Then again, it's a blazing big deal for like ten other reasons. Mostly because lets the FTC decide if platforms enforced their speech rules correctly. www.techdirt.com/2025/09/18/t...

A recent article from CIS Affiliate Omer Tene highlights the increasing enforcement of privacy regulation from the California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA) and state Attorneys-General (AGs) and the requirement for businesses to honor consumer opt-out requests www.goodwinlaw.com/en/insights/...

When people first hear about "jawboning" -- meaning government pressure to suppress speech through threats and other extra-legal measures, like what the FCC is doing now -- they always want to talk about "coercion" by the govt. I've always thought this is a red herring. Current events show why. 1/

In her latest @techdirt.com post @stanfordhai.bsky.social Policy Fellow @riana.bsky.social discusses the recent FTC settlement and how it does "little to block" child sex abuse material (CSAM) www.techdirt.com/2025/09/15/t...

CIS Affiliate @rcalo.bsky.social's new book Law and Technology: A Methodical Approach explores why law finds technology so difficult to regulate, and what to do about it. Book is now available on pre-order here www.amazon.com/Law-Technolo... and here www.riversendbookstore.com/book/9780197...

"The best time to start using end-to-end encryption for your calls or for your messages was yesterday and the second best time is today" says @stanfordhai.bsky.social Policy Fellow @riana.bsky.social in her Terms of Service with @claresduffy.bsky.social interview www.cnn.com/audio/podcas...

"...most schools are not yet addressing the risks of AI-generated child sexual abuse materials with their students. When schools do experience an incident, their responses often make it worse for the victims"says @stanfordhai.bsky.social fellow @riana.bsky.social hai.stanford.edu/news/how-do-...

CIS Affiliate @hartzog.bsky.social argues that facial recognition technology is the most dangerous surveillance tool ever invented & given the unique threats this tool poses to privacy, civil liberties .. and democracy, the only appropriate response is a ban papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Stanford HAI Policy Fellow @riana.bsky.social takes Another Look at the STOP CSAM Act in her recent @techdirt.com post www.techdirt.com/2025/08/12/a...

"Nothing about the EU’s Digital Services Act (DSA) requires platforms to change the speech that American users can see and share online" says @daphnek.bsky.social in her lateset post A Primer on Cross-Border Speech Regulation and the EU’s Digital Services Act cyberlaw.stanford.edu/a-primer-on-...

If you're in Boston September 8, I'll be speaking about my new book at MIT Media Lab (11:00 AM) and Boston University School of Law (4:00 PM). global.oup.com/academic/pro...

My new book Law and Technology: A Methodical Approach is available for pre-order ($40) over at Oxford University Press. The book explores what scholars and society can do about emerging technology. global.oup.com/academic/pro... (new link)

"To at least preserve the option of using this color in connection with automated driving, safety regulators around the world should be on the lookout for turquoise—in new vehicles, in imported vehicles, and in retrofitted vehicles," says CIS Affiliate BW Smith cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2025/08...

From 5 years ago ... www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgbC...

There are many contexts where “truthiness” won’t do, writes Riana Pfefferkorn. “From human rights activists to camera manufacturers, from academics to public servants, a lot of people are working very hard to keep it possible for society to tell what’s real from what’s fake.” It's an uphill battle.

Last year, a federal court upheld that law & the Supreme Court denied ISPs' petition to review the case in December. Today's decision denies ISPs' attempt to get the justices to reconsider that decision. New York state has been enforcing the law since January: arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20

Here's how we got here: In 2021, New York state adopted a broadband affordability law that requires ISPs to offer broadband plans to low-income consumers at low cost.

They can create their own #netneutrality protections, like California and others do, require affordable broadband options like New York, and institute broadband privacy protections like Maine. All of these laws have been upheld in court.

Today's decision means that when the FCC is powerless to protect consumers online (as it is after a federal court struck down the FCC's net neutrality protections in January), states can step in to protect their residents.

Important #netneutrality news: Today, the Supreme Court (again) rejected Internet Service Providers' attempt to undo New York's broadband affordability law. The decision has important implications for states' ability to protect consumers against misbehavior by the companies they pay to get online.

"The FCC can still protect you when you make a regular phone call but not when you use the Internet," said SLS Professor @vanschewick.bsky.social for Broadband Breakfast in "Law Prof van Schewick Calls Net Neutrality Ruling 'a Radical Decision.'" broadbandbreakfast.com/law-prof-van...

Today, New York starts enforcing its affordable broadband law. Internet providers need to offer affordable broadband plans to low-income people: 25+ Mbps down for $15/month or 200+ Mbps for $20. Jon Brodkin @arstechnica.com explains what this means & how we got here: arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

SLS's Barbara van Schewick talks to @npr.org about "what may be next after a federal court struck down the FCC's net neutrality rules" on a federal court's decision to strike down the Biden administration's net neutrality protections. Listen here: www.delawarepublic.org/2025-01-06/w...

Important #netneutrality news: Last week a federal court struck down the FCC's 2024 #netneutrality protections. I spoke with @npr.org's @jsummers.bsky.social about what this means & what may be next: npr.org/2025/01/06/n... (audio & transcript)