Governance of Technology & the Internet

Paola Ricaurte Quijano, expert committee member, and colleagues at the Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence launch the report "Towards Substantive Equality in Artificial…

ASML's Jonathan Bellack weighs in on the uptick in Twitter/X users migrating to Bluesky.

Jasmine McNealy moderates a conversation exploring how technology can be a tool - though not a wholesale solution - in combatting the climate crisis.

Jonathan Bellack comments on momentum shifts as users flee Elon Musk's X.

Bellack comments on the growing "X diaspora" as users flee to other platforms.

Leah Plunkett analyzes a proposed statute banning the app in the United States.

Marshall Van Alstyne raises concerns about platforms enabling election conspiracies.

The military tactics used within Palestine and Lebanon demand a reckoning with the "normalization of techno-terror."

The future of AI-powered search engines is at stake in an emerging suit against Perplexity AI.

We must rethink Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act to both protect free speech and curtail harassment.

ASML's Darius Kazemi makes a case for the Fediverse Schema Observatory, a means of increasing interoperability among decentralized and federated social media networks.

Ulises Mejías and Nick Couldry propose data colonialism as a paradigm for understanding Big Tech's data practices.

Greg Gondwe explores Zambian youth's sophisticated digital activism in the wake of the 2020 youth protests.

Paul Fehlinger and Linda Griffin argue for a platform bridging the venture capital and policymaking worlds.

Sidharth Chauhan and Dhruv Mehta detail the recently ratified amendments to India's Competition Act, 2002.

Sameer Hinduja and Justin W Patchin explore teenagers' use of virtual reality and the particular harms that they encounter therein.

The Court must begin treating social media platforms consistently.

Jenn Louie and coauthors argue that mandating meaningful transparency procedures will make social media platforms safer for users.

The dry spell in antitrust litigation appears to be ending.

Adam Holland shares why tracking takedowns is critical public information.

Maria Xynou details the latest censorship campaign against OONI Explorer.

An OONI-sponsored report investigates internet censorship in Kazakhstan.

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

What challenges do practitioners face when implementing Algorithmic Impact Assessments?

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

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

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

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

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…

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

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

A new book co-authored by Primavera De Filippi analyzes the reciprocal relationship between blockchain communities and politico-legal thought.

Lumen details a slew of wrongful takedown requests, many of which target local news URLs.

Bruce Schneier and Tarah Wheeler critique the lack of power granted to the White House's Cyber Safety Review Board.

Elettra Bietti suggests that antitrust break-ups and regulation do not operate in conflict.

Petra Molnar discusses her new book and experience traveling around the world investigating the use of technology in migration management.

In a newly-published book, Samson Esayas offers concrete policy proposals to address the legal challenges of big data.

Zahra Stardust's new book is now available for pre-order from Duke University Press.

Isadora Borges Monroy writes about the tension between expanding surveillance and protecting democracy.

Lindsey Cameron writes about gig workers' agency.

Anupam Chander provides expert commentary and analysis to Drew Harwell regarding the possible TikTok ban.

Bruce Schneier speaks on the impact of AI on cybersecurity, democracy, and privacy

Anupam Chander and Gautam Hans discusses the legal challenge filed by TikTok against the U.S. government over the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled…

Nadah Feteih, Diletta Milana, and Jenn Louie reflect on RSM and the Integrity Institute's closed-door workshop on trust and safety at tech companies.

Zahra Takhshid argues that personal data should be protected by the privacy tort of appropriation.

Anupam Chander comments on the sell-or-ban TikTok bill, newly signed by President Biden."It's going to be a royal mess."Read more in The New York Times.

BKC Faculty Associate Vasilis Kostakis and Nikiforos Tsiouris advocate for a commons-based technology framework, challenging the notion that high-tech will solve major socio…

Dylan Moses distinguishes censorship and content moderation, arguing that conflating them creates problems and dangers.

BKC Affiliate Mariel García–Montes comments on Nippy, the startup that offers gig workers services, like bathroom access, in exchange for their data.

BKC Faculty Associate Petra Molnar advocates for prioritizing the meaningful participation by individuals with lived experiences at border crossings in conversations around border…

BKC Director and Faculty Chair Jonathan Zittrain converses with Deputy National Security Adviser Anne Neuberger about AI and national security. 

Alejandra Caraballo discusses her experiences with content moderation issues on Elon Musk's X and the lack of trust and safety mechanisms on the platform.

In an LPE Project collection, Anupam Chander and Elettra Bietti offer unenthusiastic reactions to the TikTok legislation passed by the US House of Representatives. 

Alejandra Caraballo criticizes Meta's lack of enforcement of the company's own bullying, harassment, and hate speech policies.

2023-2024 RSM Visiting Scholar Anupam Chander comments on the prospect of a TikTok ban or forced sale.

BKC Faculty Associate Kate Klonick recaps the oral argument in Murthy v. Missouri.

BKC Director Mark Wu explains the U.S.'s ability to crackdown on TikTok.

Nathan Sanders, Bruce Schneier, and Norman Eisen advocate for a public AI to counterbalance private AI and promote tech that benefits all people, not just corporate interests.

BKC Graduate Student Fellow Dylan Moses joins Jeff Horwitz and Latanya Sweeney to discuss Horwitz's book, Broken Code: Inside Facebook and the Fight to Expose Its Harmful Secrets.

BKC Fellow Lauren Bridges discusses a Chilean environmental court's decision to suspend the approval for Google to build a giant data center due to water access concerns.

BKC Director Rebecca Tushnet comments on the Supreme Court Case NetChoice v. Paxton. 

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

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

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

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…

Zahra Takhshid makes an argument for mandating “privacy frictions” in wearable technology.

Aileen Nielsen writes about city lawmaking compensating for national regulations in technology. 

Dariusz Jemielniak and coauthors review the research literature on echo chambers in online social networks.

Juan Ortiz Freuler spoke to Fast Company about Microsoft's new Copilot keyboard.

Bruce Schneier writes about the potential for AI to remove bottlenecks.

Anupam Chander spoke to Business Insider on the potential for generative AI to hold Big Tech responsible for online content. 

In a new Oxford University Press book, Virgilio Almeida delves into the increasing presence of algorithms in everyday decisions, exploring their social and political impacts…

Lisa Austin argues for a rethinking of rights to information in the private sector. 

BKC Faculty Director Jonathan Zittrain and BKC Affiliate Bruce Schneier contribute to the Carr Center's Making a Movement: The History and Future of Human Rights, a collection of…

Responsible AI Fellow Rumman Chowdhury discusses the worry that we are giving the keys to our society to a small group of companies that have shown they cannot be fully trusted.

Molly White argues that Sam Bankman-Fried and the collapse of FTX exposed the greater fragility of cryptocurrency. "The collapse of the FTX exchange revealed the massive…

A new book from Anne L. Washington showcases how to produce better predictive algorithms for the public interest, and "draws on other disciplines, previous research practices, and…

BKC Faculty Associate Elettra Bietti argues against “framing the landscape of possibilities as a choice between ‘breaking up’ and ‘democratizing’ Big Tech” in considering how to…

BKC Faculty Associate Ethan Zuckerman explains the negative effects of the loss of tools for studying social media. 

BKC Faculty Associate Larry Lessig speaks with The Verge's Nilay Patel about BKC's new Applied Social Media Lab and why AI and social media are causing a free speech crisis for…

BKC Faculty Associate Ethan Zuckerman and Chand Rajendra-Nicolucci discuss how community governance could benefit online communities.

BKC Graduate Student Fellow Bulelani Jili dicusses internet governance in African countries.

BKC Director Jonathan Zittrain comments on the economics of zero-ad versions of social media sites. 

BKC Affiliate Paul Fehlinger showcases the critical role of regulatory technology, or RegTech, in powering a regulated yet highly performing digital economy that deploys cutting…

BKC Graduate Student Fellow Bulelani Jili explains why Kenya needs to update its regulatory framework in light of AI development. 

BKC Affiliate Bruce Schneier and Davi Ottenheimer discuss the need for regulation to enhance safety as robots become more advanced. 

Chad Rajendra-Nicolucci and BKC Faculty Associate Ethan Zuckerman argue that fresh approaches to privacy will be necessary for the ecosystem of third-party tools that complement…

BKC Faculty Associate Asaf Lubin argues that only a binding multistakeholder legal framework can effectively regulate a legitimate and efficiently controlled market for spyware.

BKC Affiliate Aviv Ovadya writes about Meta's approach to governance of generative AI.

BKC Affiliate Nathaniel Lubin writes about how tech regulation could benefit from using the data from companies' private experimentation results.

BKC Affiliate Zahra Stardust writes about the data governance approach of prospective sextech industry professionals.

BKC Affiliate Zahra Stardust writes about the financial discrimination and barriers to digital financial infrastructure faced by sex workers.

BKC Responsible AI Fellow Rumman Chowdhury answers questions about technology and the future.

BKC Faculty Associate Asaf Lubin reflects on the potential for abuse in the development of collective data rights.

The Center for Democracy and Technology, with advice from Sandra Cortesi, Madeline McGee, Leah Plunkett, and Elizabeth Sylvan released a new report to help schools procure…

BKC Affiliate Nathaniel Lubin writes about using the field of public health as inspiration for a new metaphor for the internet.

BKC Affiliate Molly White writes about lawsuits filed by the Securities and Exchange Commission against two of the world's largest cryptocurrency exchanges.

BKC Faculty Associate Ethan Zuckerman discusses the fate of Twitter and the future of digital public squares.

BKC Responsible AI Fellow Rumman Chowdhury is interviewed about bridging the gap between people and technology.

BKC Affiliate Bruce Schneier discusses the practical considerations of Montana's TikTok ban.

Tweets by Rebooting Social Media Visiting Scholar Kate Klonick are referenced in a discussion of Gonzalez v. Google and Twitter v. Taamneh.

BKC Affiliate Joseph Bak-Coleman, BKC Director James Mickens, and BKC Faculty Associate Zeynep Tufekci write to advocate for an intergovernmental panel to synthesize the evidence…

BKC Faculty Associate Ifeoma Ajunwa writes about how algorithms can exacerbate employment discrimination.

BKC Affiliate Siva Mathiyazhagan writes about the need to eradicate caste and to build a safe, inclusive, just digital India.

Rebooting Social Media Visiting Scholar and BKC Faculty Associate David Nemer discusses Google's lobbying against a Brazilian bill aimed at curbing the spread of “fake news.”

Rest of World reports on analysis of Twitter's compliance with government orders for censorship or surveillance using data from BKC's Lumen database.

The career of Jonathan Zittrain is profiled by IEEE Spectrum.

Jonathan Zittrain comments on BKC's Institute for Rebooting Social Media and its projects creating and experimenting with new social networks.

Clinical instructor at the Cyberlaw Clinic Kendra Albert discusses how an internet that is safe for sex workers is an internet that is safer for everyone.

Clinical instructor at the Cyberlaw Clinic Alejandra Caraballo comments on changes to Twitter's content moderation rules and enforcement since Elon Musk's takeover.

BKC Affiliate Nathan Sanders' policymaking project, the Massachusetts Platform for Legislative Engagement, or MAPLE, is discussed as an alternative to Twitter.

Clinical instructor at the Cyberlaw Clinic Alejandra Caraballo writes about how the US district court decision blocking access to the abortion pill mifepristone has also…

BKC Responsible AI Fellow Rumman Chowdhury advocates for global oversight of AI. 

BKC Affiliate Joe Bak-Coleman writes about what generative AI has highlighted about technology and innovation. 

BKC Affiliate Bruce Schneier predicts a future wave of email scams that will take advantage of generative AI.

BKC Affiliate Micaela Mantegna spoke about avoiding mistakes made with the internet in the metaverse.

BKC Faculty Associate Judith Donath discusses the threat social media poses to children and realistic solutions to mitigate that threat.

BKC Affiliate Julie Owono discusses Facebook and Instagram content moderation via the Meta Oversight Board, of which Owono is an inaugural member, and freedom of expression.

Jonathan Zittrain is quoted discussing digital governance of social media platforms.

BKC Affiliate Ryan Merkley writes about the relationship between generative AI, art, and intellectual property law.

BKC Responsible AI Fellow Rumman Chowdhury co-writes a piece on the shortfalls of platforms fighting online abuse.

Rumman Chowdhury writes about her time at Twitter as the engineering director of the META team...

"We were rightfully worried about what this leadership change would entail...There's a lot of ideology and misunderstanding about the kind of work ethics teams do as being part of…

BKC Faculty Associate Ethan Zuckerman writes about technoculture's unique susceptibility to a mixture of falsehood and persuasive bluffing he refers to as "bullshit." "If we…

“We’re already used to tech companies having this enormous amount of access to our personal life. By extension, the U.S. government has that access, and so how do we feel about…

BKC Affiliate Aviv Ovadya discusses social media algorithms that burst, otherwise known as bridging systems.

BKC Faculty Associate Abbey Stemler was interviewed about TikTok’s legal liability for failing to protect children from inappropriate content.

BKC Faculty Associate Zeynep Tufekci writes about technical debt, the problem at the heart of Southwest’s flight cancellation fiasco.

Evelyn Douek, BKC Faculty Associate, writes about how to improve content moderation. "Content moderation should be understood as a project of mass speech administration and…

RSM Visiting Scholar Kate Klonick writes about the positive steps Meta’s Oversight Board recently took, and how it can improve separation within platforms.  “The board…

BKC Faculty Associate Judith Donath speaks about Twitter’s demise and the potential of any possible replacements. Whatever rises up to become the new major widespread…

BKC Affiliate Bruce Schneier writes about decarbonizing crypto and the opportunity to curb its massive environmental impact. "The good news is that cryptocurrencies don’t have…

Sandra Wachter, BKC Faculty Associate, spoke about Amazon's shift in the healthcare industry. '“Whenever health data is concerned, we have to be very suspicious,” says Sandra…

In a new paper, RSM Visiting Scholar Yong Jin Park and co-author S. Mo Jones-Jang explore the response of human users to AI failures, and how those failures impact the…

BKC Fellow Petra Molnar discusses surveillance and the use of tiny islands as spaces for large tech companies.  Petra Molnar, a lawyer specialising in technology and human…

"Under that reasoning, said Alejandra Caraballo of the Harvard Law School Cyberlaw Clinic, the key question for Twitter is whether tweets from fake corporate accounts would have…

"The weaponization of corporate internet infrastructure by the U.S. government marks a new era of internet governance and is one of the key drivers of what is often discussed as…

BKC Faculty Associate Evelyn Douek discusses Twitter's content moderation practices in different areas of the world.  Musk has called himself a “free speech absolutist,”…

"Kendra Albert, a clinical instructor at Harvard Law School’s Cyberlaw Clinic, has studied “legal talismans”—terms like “free speech” that tech companies use to give legitimacy to…

BKC affiliate Molly White spoke about her interests, web3, & blockchain. "I'm hoping to keep doing what I'm doing. I feel like the site has been pretty successful…

Lumen project manager Adam Holland and Rebecca Tushnet spoke about Google’s efforts to take down links considered pirated. “Google's partner in tracking all of its takedown…

BKC Harvard affiliate Julie Owono discusses online content moderation. "Is it okay in a modern democratic society to leave two private companies the decision on what we can say…

BKC Faculty Associate Ethan Zuckerman writes about responsible digital ad systems. “As Silicon Valley giants sketch their preferred future for digital advertising, an…

Rebecca Tushnet discusses the potential challenges to California’s new social media law under the First Amendment.  “Knowing how many reports they got and whether or when…

“The First Amendment serves as a check on government intervention into our public expression through, for example, spoken or visually signed speech, writing, protesting and coding…

Susan Benesch, faculty associate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, said when it comes to “dangerous speech ... what matters most is how…

In this episode of our Making Sense of Crypto and Web3 series, we talk with blockchain researcher and expert Samer Hassan.

“As dating apps continue to receive pressure from civil society, media and governments to address a range of safety concerns, technology companies have developed and deployed a…

“Sex tech has emerged as a site in which sexual pleasure, wellbeing and health are increasingly understood as data. Sex techincludes a diverse range of products from sex therapy…

Juan Ortiz Freuler writes about the risks facing the global internet and information ecosystem.  “But our current information ecosystem, the internet, needs some weeding…

The University of Michigan’s School of Information teamed up with Harvard Law to provide information for marginalized communities after social media bans. “To assist…

Susan Benesch writes about how Elon Musk buying Twitter may be dangerous. “Dangerous speech forms a category because it is strikingly similar from one case to another, across…

Janis Wong, who recently completed a research sprint hosted by the Berkman Klein Center, speaks with McKinsey’s Stephanie Spangler about data governance “In our work, we refer…

Babatunde Okunoye explains why Nigeria's digital identity project has exceeded the country's cybersecurity infrastructure.

Daniel Solove and Woodrow Hartzog have devised a series of recommendations to better Internet governance in "Breached! Why Data Security Law Fails and How to Improve It."

Urs Gasser and Virgílio Almeida take a historical look at the evolution of Internet governance to help inform the future.

Aarathi Krishnan explores the ability of humanitarian governance systems to ensure an equitable future.

Babatunde Okunoye assesses the legacy of the ten-year-old campaign against the Stop Online Piracy Act, and charts potential paths forward. "Drawing from the success of the SOPA…

Jessica Fjeld and other experts reflect on the apparent dangers of Facebook's Metaverse.

Patrick Murck discusses the potential for cryptocurrencies to help shift into an abundance mindset.

Jad Esber and a colleague explore reputation systems in web3.

Nick Couldry and Ulises Ali Mejias trace a trend in research that focuses on how society is transformed by data extraction for profit.

Nick Couldry writes that tighter regulations are needed to ensure that social media companies act in the public interest.

Jonathan Zittrain, evelyn douek, and John Palfrey share insights on the consequences of social media after a Facebook whistleblower dominated headlines last week. "Regulators…

Julie Owono and Niousha Roshani share their ideas for addressing content governance issues online.

Jonathan Zittrain writes that the fervor for content moderation will bleed from social media into the Internet's building blocks, posing new threats to civil liberties.

Woodrow Hartzog has a conversation about the impact of President Biden's new executive order. 

Will Marks explains why NFTs are so appealing — and so confusing — to many internet users.

Micaela Mantegna comments on NFTs and the economy of the "Metaverse."

Samer Hassan shows how blockchain technology can create collaborative economies.

Jonathan Zittrain testifies before a Senate subcommittee about the Internet of Things.

Micaela Mantegna defines the ‘metaverse’ and explains how it could be the next phase of the internet.

evelyn douek shares the limitations of the Facebook Oversight Board's ruling on Donald Trump's account.

A Q&A with Francine Berman

Rebecca Tushnet says lockdown boredom may be contributing to the rise of non-fungible tokens, or NFTs

Elizabeth Renieris discusses vaccine passports with MIT Technology Review

Chinmayi Arun examines the Oversight Board’s decision in the context of the options before it.

Rebecca Tushnet discusses advertising law with The Markup

Danielle Citron says making social media sites act on content such as nonconsensual porn and violent conspiracies would make the internet more equal and free

evelyn douek says Facebook’s made-up court is filling an enormous legal void.

evelyn douek explains details of Facebook Oversight Board’s recent decision and what they reveal about Facebook’s rules, and the FOB’s role in reviewing them.

Elizabeth Renieris pens essay about Clubhouse

Samer Hassan provides an overview of P2P Models’ involvement in a recent EU report

Jonathan Zittrain discusses the future of NFTs with KQED.

Aarathi Krishnan reflects on her fellowships at BKC and the Carr Center

Preserving records of what user content is taken down—and why—could make platforms more accountable and transparent

evelyn douek comments on the Facebook Oversight Board

Kendra Albert weighs in on Supreme Court's fair-use decision

Members of BKC community share suggestions for building bluesky

2020-2021 affiliate discusses AI copyright and trademark law

Elizabeth Renieris joins WBUR

Elizabeth Renieris on the importance of Facebook barring news in Australia

Elizabeth Renieris spoke with AP following the announcement that Facebook blocked news in Australia.

Chinmayi Arun joins the Lawfare podcast to discuss India and the future of the Internet.

Chinmayi Arun and evelyn douek discuss Internet governance in The New York Times.

Zahra Stardust explains new Australian bill

Joan Donovan and Jonathan Zittrain weigh in on proposed Section 230 reforms

Will Marks discusses the “Great Deplatforming” in Just Security.

Moira Weigel and colleague describe collective action from within tech platforms.

evelyn douek puts the referral in context

The site’s business model is the problem, not just which apps it owns, argue Dipayan Ghosh and Nick Couldry

Overcoming the flaws of an internet controlled by a few major players will enable web services that are more democratic and fair, Samer Hassan says.

Nick Couldry and colleague argue data about intimate details of our lives should not be exploited by corporations

Nick Couldry and Dipayan Ghosh say a “digital realignment” is necessary

BKC affiliate joins Mathew Ingram in conversation

Jessy Kate Schingler discusses the critical issues that arise when we consider civilization in outer space

Danielle Citron spoke with The New York Times about Facebook’s hate speech policies.

New Report from Woodrow Hartzog & Evan Selinger

Dipayan Ghosh and Stephen Wicker reflect on Congress’ antitrust hearing

VentureBeat features research from BKC community members

A federal data privacy law is still important, argues Dipayan Ghosh

Studying or testing the security of any operational system potentially runs afoul of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act

Elizabeth Renieris on the impact of GDPR on the global data protection landscape

Elizabeth Renieris discusses court decision with Digital Privacy News

Mutale Nkonde speaks with Vox about facial recognition technology

BKC’s Ethics & Governance of AI Initiative works with government officials, stakeholders

"There is no meaningful choice between compulsory digitization or exclusion."

The world wide web is on a crash course that could lead to permanent fragmentation, argues Juan Ortiz Freuler

Improving Risk Management, Building Strong Governance, Accelerating Education and Research

Elizabeth Renieris joins Our Data podcast

Woodrow Hartzog co-authors essay warning of dangers, offering suggestions for tech and COVID-19

A forthcoming article by Danielle Citron lends insight to this question

Are we ready to have a conversation about racial and social justice in relation to technology? Asks Nani Jansen Reventlow

Trump, Twitter, and the Public Interest

Though his executive order follows a line of misguided, bipartisan swings at the protections for online platforms, this one is distinctively terrible, John Bowers says.

evelyn douek cautions against expecting a platform like Twitter to completely solve the problems of political discourse.

Susan Benesch argues that when it comes to Trump's tweets, Twitter must explain clearly how or why a tweet violated its policy.

Civil rights protections are as necessary in virtual spaces as in physical ones, Danielle Citron says

Dipayan Ghosh says: YES.

As long as COVID-19 is a global concern, many aspects of daily life will be mediated by platform companies that see human interactions as content to be moderated, and as sources…

evelyn douek explains Facebook’s Oversight Board

BKC fellow Julie Owono is named to the Facebook Oversight Board, along with members of the broader BKC community, Nighat Dad and Ronaldo Lemos

It is time for a coordinated effort between government, law enforcement, and developers to create an Internet we can trust.

Reda says Article 17 doesn’t fit the U.S. context

Discussing Facebook’s Oversight Board

evelyn douek reviews a recent white paper from Facebook on online content moderation

As Amazon expands its reign over e-commerce and gets more aggressive about rooting out counterfeiting, it’s taking a more active role in judging intellectual property disputes

The video isn’t legally actionable and shouldn’t be taken down, said Jonathan Zittrain, but Facebook and Twitter should probably label the video

US academics and activists should be paying close attention

Jonathon Penney proposes a new comprehensive regulatory framework to hold social media platforms accountable

evelyn douek reviews David Kaye’s latest report

The benefits do not come close to outweighing the risks, writes Woodrow Hartzog

A discussion of norms in the governance of cyberspace.

Elizabeth Renieris says that might be the wrong question to ask

Facebook says its cryptocurrency will be managed by an independent group, but an analysis finds more than half of the members have links back to the social media giant.

Mutale Nkonde says a federal ban is unlikely

Lumen shows why Twitter took down a video posted by President Trump

An assessment of blockchain against the GDPR’s core principles

Local firms in India will be at a disadvantage if big tech companies are given plum roles, says Padmashree Gehl Sampath

“Ghost Work” reveals labor structures masked by technology

US legislators say they want to stop deepfakes at the source, so they introduced the DEEPFAKES Accountability Act.

Perhaps the best physical representation of the genius of the Internet—and in particular, “Internet Protocol”—is found in an hourglass.

Disparity between what people think data is worth, what industry pays for it poses challenge to tech equity talks

ICANN handed over the top level domain .amazon to Jeff Bezos’ Amazon.com, pending a 30 day comment period

Reflections on applying extractives metaphors to data in an international development context

BKC Executive Director Urs Gasser serves on Angela Merkel’s German Digital Council

Elettra Bietti on User-Dignity and Capture in the Platform Economy

Millions of workers are doing on-demand work to keep the Internet running smoothly, and they are now fighting for similar rights that full-time employees won decades ago.

A first empirical assessment showing that concentration of patents does result in market concentration in certain sectors

Do predictive tools reflect and reinforce punitive practices that drive disparate outcomes? How do data regimes interact with the penal ideology to naturalize these practices?

The proposal aims to protect users on social media platforms from censorship if a site advertises itself as impartial. Critics say the bill is too restrictive.

Making smart speakers and technologies smarter, but what about privacy?

Charges against Assange and implications for journalism

Impacts of new tech in the workplace

Taking an exclusively technical view of urban life will lead to cities that appear smart but under the surface are rife with injustice and inequality

How the government, or regulators, can start thinking about privacy and the data economy

Australia asks social media platforms to take responsibility

Data should become an enabler of new models of cooperative growth

On the consequences of ‘new manufacturing’ for European industrial policymaking

An unsolicited picture shared over Apple's AirDrop leads to questions over how the technology is governed.

Providing aggregate data access to media professionals

A Twitter lawsuit and protected forms of speech

Feminist research and bridging conversations about consent

Facebook's stance on anti-vaccine misinformation, and what public health experts have to say about it.

Stopping to think about the ethics and unintended consequences of new technology.

Amazon and the spread of health misinformation.

Bringing into focus the impact that new technologies can have on socio-economic, civil and political rights

Assessing the integrity, safety, and security of the vote -- the most important element of a truly democratic government

Christine Borgman comments on the feasibility of California's "data dividends" proposal

When it comes to children’s school data we should ask who controls it, what is it worth and how will it impact their lives.

A research agenda for stakeholders to proactively collaborate and design AI technologies that work with users to improve their health and wellbeing

Facebook’s plans to stitch together its three main messaging services have put the social network back in the glare of regulators around the world

Berkman Klein Fellow Titi Akinsanmi discusses how policy for digital ID could develop in 2019 and what she hopes to see globally and on the African continent.

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s oversight of the fast-growing cryptocurrency market is on hiatus as the government shutdown lingers.

Questions are emerging regarding the adequacy of our current economic policies and practices, the social contract between citizens, businesses and governments and the metrics used…

“We increasingly see every problem as a technology-related problem, so the solution is more technology”

AirBnB may be exempt from a local ordinance regulating local short-term rentals by way of the Communications Decency Act

Data protection standards alone aren’t enough to make social media companies accountable

Ruth Okediji, Smith professor of law, traces her enthusiasm for intellectual-property law to a childhood love of literature and storytelling.

A survey of existing legal remedies for attacks that have been demonstrated on machine learning systems, and suggests some potential areas of exploration for machine learning…

Professor Samer Hassan explores how blockchain has the potential to help sharing economy projects to overcome several challenges they face at infrastructure, governance and…

The few companies that control our digital public sphere—Facebook, Google, and Twitter—are all driven by the same fundamental business model, and it has only grown more pernicious…

A new bill would prevent tech companies from knowingly doing harm to their users.

This paper makes a case for comprehensive digital industrial policies that are differentiated and rooted in the broader reality of development and globalization in the fourth…

Hassan thinks of the blockchain within the context of how we use it to manage trust in large, decentralized communities.

There is no easy fix to the asymmetries existing between developing and developed countries.

Jonathan Zittrain says the chances that the Internet will be a engine for positivity are lower than they were ten years ago

Making Internet-connected devices more secure will require smarter regulations

A skeptic's guide to the market for AI technologies, especially for government and policymakers

Do big social media platforms have effective ad policies?

When machine learning systems fail because of adversarial manipulation, how should society expect the law to respond?

Online tech platforms should become “information fiduciaries”

The HLS Cyberlaw Clinic helped receive an exemption to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act anti-circumvention provisions to allow libraries, archivists, museums, and other…

“What was once a disruptive, ‘easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission’, type of business, have institutionalized its interests in state law."

On transformation in the financial services landscape due to globalizing and evolving technologies

Teaching technologists to think critically about responsibility and ethics is one way to keep our lives from into turning into a Black Mirror episode

Domestic and international financial regulators, innovators, and experts examine financial tech topics

If our devices, information, and institutions are to remain secure, smart government regulation is inevitable

On the importance of thinking about both the human rights implications and the ethics of AI.

India is attempting to create a complex new framework for data protection that will require firms to physically host user data, but they might be moving too fast.

Our Cyberlaw Clinic has urged the Ninth Circuit court not to touch a lower court decision ending a corporate landlord's lawsuit accusing Airbnb of helping tenants break building…

New policies aim to protect the privacy and security of personal data. How can trust be strengthened in the digital economy?

Internet companies need "information fiduciaries" to ensure that the consumer's best interest is kept at heart.

Faculty Associate Primavera De Filippi joins a debate discussing Blockchain, what it is, and whether it is deserving of its current hype.

Keith Porcaro presents his work on data trusts, a legal tool for governing and protecting digital movements.