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The Washington Post

Does copyright help artists? Not necessarily, say these writers.

Madhavi Sunder reviews Who Owns This Sentence?, which weaves through the history of copyright and grapples with key current issues.

Feb 14, 2024
TIME

When Love and the Algorithm Don’t Mix

Apryl Williams describes dating app algorithms as a reinforcer of longstanding racial biases that privilege whiteness and deprioritize matching women of color.

Feb 14, 2024
The Boston Globe

Social media can harm kids. Can laws protect them?

BKC Faculty Associate Leah Plunkett coments on whether laws geared towards keeping children safe online will be enforceable.

Feb 12, 2024
American Political Science Review

How Experiments Help Campaigns Persuade Voters: Evidence from a Large Archive of Campaigns’ Own Experiments

Along with co-authors, BKC Affiliate Nathaniel Lubin analyzes an archive of 146 advertising experiments conducted by US campaigns in 2018 and 2020.

Feb 8, 2024
ACLU.org

When it Comes to Facial Recognition, There is No Such Thing as a Magic Number

BKC Affiliate Marissa Gerchick and Matt Cagle argue that facial recognition test scores mislead communities about the technology's harms.

Feb 7, 2024
Cyberlaw Clinic Blog

Clinic Supports Finale Doshi-Velez, Elena L. Glassman in Submitting AI Comment to NIST

Professors Finale Doshi-Velez and Elena Glassman, with assistance from the Cyberlaw Clinic, submitted an administrative comment on AI to the National Institute of Standards and…

Feb 4, 2024
The Daily Beast

The Fresh Prince of Joseon: How a Crypto Mogul Became a Korean Royal Heir—and Formed a Digital Kingdom

2023-2024 RSM Visiting Scholar​​​​​​​ Anupam Chander comments on the feasibility of creating digital countries.

Feb 3, 2024
Indiana Law Journal

The Trade Origins of Privacy Law

2023-2024 RSM Visiting Scholar Anupam Chander explains the intersection between international trade law and privacy laws.

Feb 2, 2024
Fortune

Forget the Turing Test. AI needs to pass the Summer Camp Test before it can take over the world

BKC Affiliate Kathy Pham draws on her own experience enrolling her children in summer camp to shed light on AI's current shortcomings: despite the hype, AI is not well equipped to…

Feb 2, 2024
UCLA Law Review

Can AI Standards Have Politics?

BKC Faculty Associate Alicia Solow-Niederman analyzes real world examples of standards to show an inconvenient truth: that standards are neither objective nor neutral.

Feb 2, 2024
Reuters

At tech companies, let’s share the reins

BKC Affiliate Kathy Pham argues that Large Language Models and other AI systems will only reach their full potential when a broader set of people build them.

Feb 1, 2024
Medium

“Where are you” vs “How are you”?

BKC Affiliate Tunde Okunoye contemplates what investment in digital identification projects in Africa may achieve—and who they may benefit.

Jan 31, 2024
Center for Democracy & Technology

From Our Fellows – From Automation to Agency: The Future of AI Ethics Education

BKC Affiliate Ashley Lee and Victoria Hsieh discuss the future of ethics as a component of education on AI.

Jan 29, 2024
Berkeley Technology Law Journal

When the Digital Services Act Goes Global

RSM Visiting Scholar Anupam Chander argues that authoritarians might well exploit various mechanisms in the DSA to enlarge their control over the dissemination of information, and…

Jan 28, 2024
The Theatre Times

TOWARDS TRANSNATIONAL DIGITAL INFRASTRUCTURE

BKC Faculty Associate Magda Romanska and Kasia Lech provide the story and vision for The Theatre Times.

Jan 27, 2024
Spotify

Uncommon Naledge Episode 13

BKC Faculty Associate Jabari Evans welcomes RSM Visiting Scholar David Craig to his podcast to discuss the implications of race, class, and gender in the burgeoning field of…

Jan 26, 2024
The New York Times

The Sleepy Copyright Office in the Middle of a High-Stakes Clash Over A.I.

Rebecca Tushnet comments on the Copyright Office's involvement in the determination of where AI fits into intellectual property laws.

Jan 25, 2024
CyberScoop

CFPB’s proposed data rules would improve security, privacy and competition

Bruce Schneier writes about the CFPB's proposed data rules and its benefits.

Jan 24, 2024
WIRED

Social Media Is Getting Smaller—and More Treacherous

Ethan Zuckerman writes about social media getting smaller, allowing for more people to connect, but also more extremism to arise. 

Jan 24, 2024
Harvard Graduate School of Education

Confronting Bullying in the Cyber Age

BKC Faculty Associate Sameer Hinduja provides insight on the impacts of online bullying in children.

Jan 24, 2024