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Here's a new article, "First Ideas," forthcoming in Georgetown Law Journal, about understanding the hold that the idea of "first" has over intellectual property laws. Comments are very welcome! 1/ papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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I joined an amicus brief to the Cal Supreme Court urging reversal of an appeals-court ruling that would be disastrous for user privacy if upheld. Thanks to @prmalone.bsky.social, Nina Srejovic, & their two terrific clinic students at SLS who authored the brief. cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2025/02...

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Ron Wyden asks for rules about whether you own your digital purchases

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All 50 States Have Now Introduced Right to Repair Legislation 🔗 www.404media.co/all-50-state...

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🥹 www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...

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today in bleak futurism: until recently Spain was using an AI algorithm to predict whether or not women who had been beaten/otherwise abused by their partners were at risk of more abuse. if the algorithm deemed them safe, nothing happened. the unsurprising result: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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An update on our Public Interest Corpus AI project! authorsalliance.substack.com/p/the-public... See also publicinterestcorpus.org for updates and more info.

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some good news: www.404media.co/all-50-state...

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Hot of the presses: my take on how "extraction" and "extractability" should be valued in copyright law--with implications for AI and beyond. Thanks to the many folks who commented on this while it was under construction! scholarship.law.unc.edu/nclr/vol103/...

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The country singer started the “Imagination Library” nearly 30 years ago to encourage early literacy. www.thedailybeast.com/dolly-parton...

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ATTN @georgetownlaw.bsky.social students: Looking for a summer job? Our summer fellowship offers the opportunity to research and write at the intersection of privacy, technology, human rights, and immigration enforcement. If this sounds like you, apply today at:

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Disabled people already face barriers online, and Meta just made it worse, writes Tech Policy Press fellow @arianaaboulafia.bsky.social. Fact-checking is gone, ableist hate is allowed, and misinformation will spread unchecked. It doesn’t have to be this way:

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New: a public library ebook service is removing AI-generated books from its platform after a 404 Media investigation. We found public libraries were being swarmed with low quality AI-generated books. Now going to change. www.404media.co/public-libra...

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Thank you to @prmalone.bsky.social, Nina Srejovic, and @stanfordlaw.bsky.social Juelsgaard Clinic Certified Law Students August Gebhard-Koenigstein & Yiran (Isabella) Yang for filing this amicus brief on behalf of myself, @ericgoldman.bsky.social, Betsy Rosenblatt & @emptydoors.bsky.social:

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LAST DAY: Today is the last day to apply for CDT’s Summer 2025 Internship Program. If you are interested in diving into AI, privacy, and equity—or shaping our impact through communications and fundraising be sure to apply today! cdt.org/careers/ #DCInterns #TechPolicyInterns

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Wikipedia is rolling out anonymity features piloted in countries with authoritarian governments in the US & is making a change to not show editor IP addresses in response to a global "increase in threats" from Elon Musk, Heritage Foundation, and governments www.404media.co/wikipedia-pr...

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Have you ever heard (or used) the phrase "soft IP"? If so, you should check out this piece by @levendowski.net:

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Microsoft study finds AI makes human cognition “atrophied and unprepared” 🔗 www.404media.co/microsoft-st...

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This is Perfect 10 and iParadigms erasure.

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Join us for a fireside chat with Meg Leta Jones to discuss The Future of Family Privacy: Children, Social Media, Parental Consent, EdTech, and Genetics. May 7-9, 2025: bit.ly/PSF-Spring #privsecforum #PrivacyMatters

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New filing: "Thomson Reuters v. ROSS (Westlaw sues ROSS over legal research AI)" Doc #770: Opinion - Memorandum Opinion Download PDF | View Full Case #CL17131648

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Hey, look--it's me, talking about @levendowski.net's awesome piece about "soft IP":

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New piece up on @lawfare.bsky.social about DOGE’s violations of foundational commitments in the Privacy Act. Sen. Ervin and Sen. Goldwater would be aghast. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/doge...

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I spoke to @washingtonpost.com about reports that AI tools are being used with federal data noting that this is occurring without transparency, consent, or attention to privacy and security concerns, and heightening the American public's mistrust of AI www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

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Myst (1993)

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Every 4 years, a team of libraries & research organizations work together to preserve material from U.S. government websites during the transition of administrations. 🗳️ Get the latest on the 2024/2025 End of Term Web Archive @eotarchive.org ➡️ blog.archive.org/2025/02/06/u...

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I was honored to receive the 2025 MLK Humanitarian Award from New York University last night. In my remarks, I noted that to receive an award bearing Dr. King's name is both humbling and challenging for, in this critical moment, his legacy demands of us not mere words, but action and courage. 🧵

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My new book, You Can't Kill a Man Because of the Books He Reads: Angelo Herndon's Fight for Freedom, is out today. lithub.com/josephine-ba... Thanks to my family, friends, colleagues, and @wwnorton.bsky.social for helping me write about Herndon's fight for free speech and assembly.

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New from 404 Media: Low quality books that appear to be AI generated are making their way into public libraries, forcing librarians to sort through a functionally infinite number of books to determine what is written by humans and what is generated by AI. www.404media.co/ai-generated...

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I’m excited to share that my work “The Overton Window and Privacy Enforcement” has been selected as a recipient of the @futureofprivacy.bsky.social Privacy Papers for Policymakers Award, and honored to be in such amazing company!

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Dorothy B. Porter changed libraries 💜 The Dewey Decimal System used to only have two classifications for Black people: 325 (colonization) & 326 (slavery). Each book by a Black person was put into one of these classifications. A book of poetry? Classified as colonization. Enter Dorothy B. Porter 🧵

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Last year we started a project to download and preserve public data. lil.law.harvard.edu/blog/2025/01... Since saving public data is in the news today — but is always needed — let’s talk about what you can do to help.

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"A whopping 82% of people who used the library’s physical space and 79% of people who physically attended programs reported more optimism regarding the future, compared to only 58% of digital-only users." Our physical space and resources matter greatly! bookriot.com/innovative-s...

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"I had not touched a cat in 15 years when an orange kitten wandered over to sit with me in the grass one day. I was left without adequate words to describe that experience. It reminded me that I am alive."

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New for @epic.org: These Pregnancy Apps May Be Sources for a Location Data Broker. I cover: 🏥 Reproductive health + location data sensitivity 📱 The apps potentially involved 🔄 How location data could get from a pregnancy app to a location data seller 🔐 What should be done epic.org/these-pregna...

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📢 Intern at DC’s top Tech Policy organization! Applications for CDT’s Summer 2025 Internship Program are open. Last day to apply is February 14th. Work on issues like AI, privacy & equity OR help amplify our impact through strategic comms & fundraising. cdt.org/careers/

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so glad to see this coverage of a recent @cendemtech.bsky.social report in CNBC this morning! the article covers a recent study on the impact of digitized hiring assessments on disabled workers — more, here: www.cnbc.com/2025/01/30/d...

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Baby’s first mid-panel ovation 🥹

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Some good news: www.nytimes.com/2025/01/28/b...

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I return to this piece all the time:

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I found this in the "Unidentified Projects, Computer Related" folder in the Eames Papers — Box II: 214, Folder 12 — at the Library of Congress

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👮‍♂️ use Clearview, which returned 8 photos, two of which were their suspect. 👮‍♂️ did not disclose that they “used facial recognition as part of their identification,” and “failed to say that Clearview AI issues a disclaimer saying its facial recognition reports are not admissible in court…”

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