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The New York Times

Israel's Pager Attacks Have Changed the World

The Israeli attack on Hezbollah sheds light on widespread vulnerabilities.

Sep 22, 2024
Foreign Policy Magazine

What the Global AI Governance Conversation Misses

The perspectives and needs of global majority countries have not been fully accommodated.

"As developers and stewards of AI technology, we have a critical responsibility. We must advance AI capabilities and simultaneously develop robust safeguards to protect users,…

Sep 19, 2024
Open Observatory of Network Interference

Kazakhstan: TLS MITM attacks and blocking of news media, human rights, and circumvention tool sites

An OONI-sponsored report investigates internet censorship in Kazakhstan.

Sep 19, 2024
Arxiv

Reporting Non-Consensual Intimate Media

An Audit Study of Deepfakes

Eric Gilbert and coauthors use AI-generated nude images to test whether X's takedown algorithms take non-consensual intimate media seriously.

Sep 18, 2024
Yale Journal of Law & Technology

Limitations and Loopholes in the EU AI Act and AI Liability Directives

What This Means for the European Union, the United States, and Beyond

Concrete recommendations for how the EU's AI Act can be fortified.

Sep 18, 2024
Journal of Online Trust & Safety

Algorithmic Impact Assessments at Scale

Practitioners' Challenges and Needs

What challenges do practitioners face when implementing Algorithmic Impact Assessments?

Sep 18, 2024
Connected by Data

Global Citizen Deliberation on Artificial Intelligence

Options and design considerations

How could global citizen deliberation shape the future of artificial intelligence?

Sep 18, 2024
Common Sense Media

The Dawn of the AI Era: Teens, Parents, and the Adoption of Generative AI at Home and School

In a newly-published reporta, Alexa Hasse illustrates the roles that generative AI software plays in teens' and parents' lives, and advocates for maintaining open communication…

Sep 18, 2024
Foreign Policy

A Realist Perspective on AI Regulation

Experimentation is the right strategy—as long as regulators can learn from one another.

Is the way the internet has been regulated over the last three decades a cautionary tale?

Sep 16, 2024
Citation Needed

Big publishers think libraries are the enemy

The recent Second Circuit decision in Hachette v. Internet Archive is only the latest battle in the war on libraries and the freedom to read.

Molly White links a recent Second Circuit decision to a larger pattern of publishers' interference with libraries and, more generally, with reading practices.

Sep 12, 2024
Cyberlaw Clinic

Massachusetts High Court Issues Ruling in Online Racial Profiling Case

The Cyberlaw Clinic welcomes the SJC's holding that the BPD violated the law by refusing to turn over evidence of potential online racial profiling.

Sep 6, 2024
Nieman Lab

Want to fight misinformation? Teach people how algorithms work

Sociodemographic data bears on algorithmic literacy.

Sep 4, 2024
The New York Times

Why Brazil Banned X

Have the country's efforts to combat fake news gone too far?

Aug 31, 2024
The Nation

Big Tech Is Very Afraid of a Very Modest AI Safety Bill

Despite claiming to support AI safety, powerful tech interests are trying to kill SB1047.

"It’s like saying that a bill addressing wildfire risks should be rejected because it doesn’t address flooding risks."

Aug 30, 2024
Harvard Kennedy School

A Hacker's Mind

HKS's Behind the Book series covers Bruce Schneier's latest work.

Aug 30, 2024
LiveNOW

French authorities charge Telegram's CEO

Juan Ortiz Freuler breaks down the latest information on the case against Pavel Durov.

Aug 29, 2024
MIT Science Policy Review

Mapping the space of social media regulation

Nathaniel Lubin, Kalie Mayberry, Dylan Moses, Manon Revel, Luke Thorburn, and Andrew West identify two modes of mapping the space of social media regulation and discuss the trade…

Aug 27, 2024
Fast Company

Why France’s arrest of Telegram CEO Pavel Durov has divided tech regulation experts

There’s debate over whether Durov’s arrest is a good way to keep tech execs in check or sets a dangerous precedent.

Juan Ortiz Freuler and Apunam Chander weigh in on the arrest of Pavel Durov.

Aug 27, 2024
British Vogue

Forces for Change

The Cyberlaw Clinic's Alejandra Caraballo was nominated as a British Vogue Force for Change.

Aug 26, 2024

Personhood Credentials

Artificial intelligence and the value of privacy-preserving tools to distinguish who is real online

Wendy Seltzer and Tom Zick consider the efficacy of implementing "personhood credentials" as means to deter bad actors online while maintaining users' anonymity.

Aug 26, 2024