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Nadah Feteih discusses tech ethics and activism from within the tech industry, particularly from trust and safety team members.

Micaela Mantegna discusseds ethics and aesthetics of AI and copyright on a Game Developers Conference panel.

Anupam Chander reacts to the new law that could ban TikTok, underlining the need for greater accountability in the US government's tech regulation.

With co-authors, Maitreya Shah discusses "automation" for Data & Society's Keywords of the Datafied State essay collection.

Anne Washington and Joanne Cheung tackle the concept of "public interest" and highlight the power imbalances and embedded social hierarchies that exist within it in a keyword…

Micaela Mantegna argues that copyright law is ill-equipped to deal with generative AI.

Chris Bavitz delivers a "Last Lecture" to the HLS class of 2024, focusing on the promises and perils of generative AI.

Judith Donath and Bruce Schneier warn that, without intervention, the continued expansion of generative AI will end the Web's utility as a public resource.

The Cyberlaw Clinic testified before the Copyright Office on exemptions to §1201 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, which prohibits the circumvention of certain technical…

Molly White finds generative AI lackluster for advertised and commonly attempted uses but potentially well suited for some tasks—but the social utility of those tasks is…

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.

Jeffrey Hall discusses friendship and loneliness among young people.

Rebecca Tushnet spoke to Bloomberg about the training of Adobe's AI tool Firefly

Bruce Schneier writes about a recent potential cybersecurity catastrophe.

Bruce Schneier memorializes Ross Anderson. "Ross was a pragmatic visionary. His mastery of both the technologies and the underlying policy issues showed a deep command of…

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

Apryl Williams joined BKC for an event on her new book about algorithmic bias in online dating apps.

Jonathan Zittrain moderates an event centered around reckoning with changing one's mind. Ruth Okediji, one of the panelists, describes her own experience: "I had to begin to…