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For Safe AI Tomorrow, Fiduciary Duties for Big Tech Today
By Sebastian Benthall (DLI Associate, Information Law Institute, NYU School of Law).
Digital Life Initiative
May 11, 20224 min read


Beyond Manipulation? Revisiting Technopaternalism in the Context of News Recommenders
By Marijn Sax (DLI Associate, University of Amsterdam).
Digital Life Initiative
Apr 16, 202211 min read


Our Practices Will Change! A Response to Elizabeth O‘Neill
By Guido Löhr (Eindhoven University of Technology).
Digital Life Initiative
Apr 14, 20227 min read


Three Under-recognized Hazards of Digital Recording
By Elizabeth O'Neill (Eindhoven University of Technology).
Jessie G Taft
Oct 28, 202111 min read


Why We Should Look to Feminism to See Beyond 'the New Cold War'
By Maggie Jack (DLI Visiting Fellow) and Seyram Avle (University of Massachusetts Amherst).
Jessie G Taft
Oct 11, 20216 min read


Oracles: Authentic Data Collection Tool for Researchers
By Yan Ji (Cornell Tech).
Jessie G Taft
Oct 10, 20215 min read


Dilemmas of Digital Platform Power
By Amy B.Z. Zhang (Cornell Tech).
Jessie G Taft
Oct 10, 202111 min read


Academia’s Community Impact Gap
By Anthony Poon (Cornell Tech).
Jessie G Taft
Oct 10, 20218 min read


On Google’s Sandbox/FLoC Proposal: Comments Submitted to UK-CMA
By Lee McGuigan (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) and Helen Nissenbaum (Cornell Tech).
Jessie G Taft
Sep 3, 202116 min read


DLI Debate: Does AI Pose an Existential Threat to Humanity?
With John Etchemendy, Salome Viljoen, Lee McGuigan, Ido Sivan-Sevilla, Meg Young, Maggie Jack, and Amy Zhang.
Jessie G Taft
May 16, 202127 min read


US Data Privacy Law: Federal and State Legislation, Impact, and Risk Mitigation
By Frank C. Barile (Cornell Tech)
Jessie G Taft
Apr 14, 202119 min read


Privacy and Digital Contact Tracing
By Brian Ray (Cleveland State University) and Jane Bambauer (University of Arizona)
Jessie G Taft
Apr 2, 20216 min read


Privacy Policies as Contextual Integrity: Beyond Rules Compliance
By Yan Shvartshnaider (York University), Madelyn Rose Sanfilippo (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), and Noah Apthorpe (Colgate...
Jessie G Taft
Mar 12, 20217 min read


Networked Authoritarianism at the Edge
By Maggie Jack – Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow
Jessie G Taft
Feb 19, 20214 min read


Private-Interest Cybersecurity Governance: The Case of Cyber Insurers
By Ido Sivan-Sevilla – DLI Postdoctoral Fellow
Jessie G Taft
Dec 17, 202012 min read


Section 230 Revisited: Web Freedom vs Accountability
By Yaël Eisenstat – Visiting Fellow at Cornell Tech’s DLI, and former Elections Integrity Operations Head at Facebook, CIA Officer...
Jessie G Taft
May 14, 20206 min read


The Promise and Pitfalls of the California Consumer Privacy Act
By Salomé Viljoen – DLI Postdoctoral Fellow
Jessie G Taft
Apr 11, 202012 min read


On Facebook’s New “Oversight Board”, Accountability, and Control
By Noa Mor (DLI Visiting Fellow) Facebook recently published a detailed plan for the establishment of an “Independent Oversight Board”,...
Jessie G Taft
Oct 21, 20198 min read


Private Companies and Scholarly Infrastructure – Google Scholar and Academic Autonomy
By Jake Goldenfein (Cornell Tech), Sebastian Benthall (NYU), Daniel Griffin (UC Berkeley) and Eran Toch (Tel Aviv University) The...
Jessie G Taft
Oct 21, 201912 min read


Dissolving Privacy, One Merger at a Time: Competition, Data and Third Party Tracking
By Reuben Binns (Oxford University, UK ICO) and Elettra Bietti (Harvard Law School, Berkman-Klein Center for Internet and Society) When...
Jessie G Taft
Oct 8, 20198 min read
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