As AI shapes what we see and believe, truth is under strain. @daniellecitron.bsky.social explores accountability in the AI age—how data systems amplify inequality and distort trust. See her at Datapalooza 11/14 hosted by @uvadatascience.bsky.social datascience.virginia.edu/events/datap...

Silicon Flatirons hosts Professor Harry Surden and CIS Affiliate Scholar David Levine today on AI's impact on legal work: enhancing efficiency while raising questions about hiring and training junior lawyers. Panel discussion follows with local experts siliconflatirons.org/events/the-f...

Austrian/German NGOs filed a complaint against Deutsche Telekom for creating paid fast lanes, violating EU net neutrality. @vanschewick.bsky.social says ISPs can't treat traffic differently for commercial reasons. euobserver.com/digital/ar5d...

Micromobility isn't new—bikes, scooters & skates have fought for street space for 100+ years. US laws remain a patchwork mess, classifying devices inconsistently. CIS Affiliate @bwalkersmith.bsky.social writes in his latest post cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2025/11...

"It connects back to my fear that the people with the fewest resources will be most affected by the downsides of AI" says @riana.bsky.social in latest @thenation.com article: Our Racist, Terrifying Deepfake Future Is Here www.thenation.com/article/soci...

CIS Affiliate @daphnek.bsky.social examines three researcher categories under the DSA: vetted academics, public data collectors, and everyone else. Many valuable projects fall outside DSA protections, facing legal ambiguity and risks from the AI data wars. www.techpolicy.press/determining-...

CIS Affiliate @rcalo.bsky.social argues law should proactively shape tech rather than just react to it. His book proposes a methodical approach: define tech carefully, assess impacts, analyze legal implications, and recommend solutions www.techpolicy.press/ryan-calo-wa...

BU's @morganweiland.bsky.social discusses Communication Research Center's (CRC) survey showing 74% of Americans oppose government censorship of media, despite Trump admin pressures on ABC over Kimmel. Public supports First Amendment across political lines. sites.bu.edu/crc/2025/10/...

OpenAI received its first known warrant seeking ChatGPT user data in a child exploitation case. @riana.bsky.social warns this opens the door to "reverse prompt warrants" like Google faced. AI companies must limit data collection they collect on their users cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2025/10...

Recent upheavals at X and Meta stem from oligarchic ownership by Musk and Zuckerberg who directly control content policies. CIS Affiliate @pjleerssen.bsky.social examines how these moguls influence digital governance through ideological or economic motives. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

@hartzog.bsky.social and @daniel-solove.bsky.social explores The Great Scrape: how AI's massive data scraping violates privacy principles like fairness, consent, and transparency. Despite scrapers treating public data as free, privacy law protects it. www.californialawreview.org/print/great-...

How do we protect young people online without sacrificing privacy? Justice Shannon talks with @stanfordhai.bsky.social fellow @kingjen.bsky.social about age assurance and verification practices. Essential listening for policymakers and technologists www.ilpfoundry.us/podcast/s6e2...

Privacy defies single definition per debate between @daniel-solove.bsky.social's taxonomy view & @rcalo.bsky.social /Angel's critique. Privacy pros face uncertainty in roles/budgets. Impact matters more than definitions. By @chuckcosson.bsky.social

@kingjen.bsky.social & her Stanford team found AI developers' privacy policies concerning: long data retention, training on children's data, and poor transparency. Users should carefully consider what they share w/ AI chatbots and opt out of data training if possible hai.stanford.edu/news/be-care...

CIS Affiliate @riana.bsky.social analyzed 114 US cases from the AI Hallucination Cases database: 90% involve solo/small firms, 56% are plaintiffs, ChatGPT most common. Real issue: majority are pro se litigants who rely on AI most but get failed by it. cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2025/10...

NHTSA launched its sixth Tesla self-driving probe after incidents including red-light violations and crashes. But regulators can only react to problems, not approve tech beforehand. "I call it regulatory whack-a-mole," says CIS Affiliate BW Smith edition.cnn.com/2025/10/13/b...

Europe's Digital Services Act lets users challenge platform moderation decisions through independent certified bodies. Article 21 dispute settlements cover takedowns, suspensions & more. @pjleerssen.bsky.social interviewed by @techpolicypress.bsky.social www.techpolicy.press/what-we-can-...

Join us tomorrow for Prof. @hartzog.bsky.social's (@bostonu.bsky.social Law) talk: "Against AI Half Measures" Tuesday, October 14, 2025 - 12:10PM-1:30PM - SLB 128 DM for Zoom Details Cosponsored by YJoLT

New paper by CIS Affiliate Giancarlo Frosio: Automated copyright enforcement needs rights-driven governance to avoid "algorithmic enclosure." License first, block only clear infringements, require human oversight & transparency. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

CIS Affiliate Giancarlo Frosio "offers a clear, comparative map of algorithmic enforcement in the IP domain with emphasis on copyright and trade marks online" in his latest Constitutionalising Algorithmic Enforcement paper papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Speakers include @genevievelakier.bsky.social, Derek Bambauer, and moderator @daphnek.bsky.social. They’ll discuss post-Vullo developments, emerging vectors of influence, and how to balance government communication with protection from coercion. Register to attend:

Omer Tene & Lars Oleson explores privacy by design for facial recognition in their latest @iapp.bsky.social post. They suggest the technology shouldn't leak personal information any more so than your dog, who also recognizes you but doesn't sell out your privacy iapp.org/news/a/recog...

Richard Forno at @us.theconversation.com: The Oct 1 shutdown furloughed 2/3 of CISA staff as a key cyber threat-sharing law expired. The agency lready lost ~1,000 employees in 2025, facing big 2026 cuts—amid active attacks like Salt Typhoon theconversation.com/federal-shut...

After 6 months, an Indiana federal court granted @riana.bsky.social's motion to unseal the search warrants for fired Indiana University cybersecurity professor XiaoFeng Wang homes. The unsealed warrants reveal new details about this strange and perplexing situation www.ipm.org/news/2025-10...

New research from @daniellecitron.bsky.social @ariezra.bsky.social examines growing concerns around content moderators — people tasked with keeping social media free of explicit content. Their upcoming paper adds to mounting warnings about this challenging job www.techpolicy.press/is-trust-saf...

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.