a lawyer's musings on media, technology, and internet culture
I was recently interviewed by Jason Murdock, a reporter for Newsweek, for his article, "What Could Happen to Facebook Under a Joe Biden Presidency, and Should Zuckerberg Be Worried?" In this post, I expand on the quotes I provided in that article regarding section 230 of the Communications Decency Act of 1996.
Read MoreOn Tuesday, 8 September 2020, I was delighted to give a webinar for the Society of Computers & Law entitled Me and my Deepfake: a closer look at image rights and our digital selves. SCL...
Read MoreIn September, I had the privilege of attending the Swiss Re Centre for Global Governance in Zürich, Switzerland for a two-day conference on deepfakes. The conference was hosted by the International Risk Governance Center (IRGC), whose...
Read MoreOn the one hand, some American companies have retreated from the EU. On the other, local governments have begun to take consumer privacy more seriously, by introducing new domestic data protection legislation.
Read MoreEarlier this month, a leftist art collective in Germany called the Centre for Political Beauty (Zentrum für Politische Schönheit or “ZPS”) launched a website to name and shame neo-Nazis. At soko-chemnitz.de, people were invited to examine...
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