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Abortion Bans Are Going to Make Stalkerware Even More Dangerous

“Policymakers tend to view privacy violations in silos, so they pursue reforms in a piecemeal manner. One day, proposals focus on nonconsensual pornography; the next, deepfake sex videos, still another, the confidentiality of people’s COVID statuses; and so on. To the extent that the law is updated, the reforms are often overly narrow. ” — Danielle Citron, Professor of Law, University of Virginia


Danielle Citron
Source: Slate – Future Tense
July 5, 2022

Social Media Giants Brace for Lawsuits Thanks to Texas Anti-Censorship Law

“A big flood of lawsuits is expected against the social media platforms if HB 20 remains in effect. The Texas plaintiff lawyers will be pretty fired up.” — Eric Goldman, Professor of Law, Santa Clara University


Eric Goldman
Source: Washington Examiner
May 20, 2022

New York Attorney General Launches Probe of Twitch and Discord After Buffalo Shooting

“How much knowledge is enough? Generally simply knowing people are doing something bad on a service is not enough knowledge.” — Eric Goldman, Professor of Law, Santa Clara University


Eric Goldman
Source: NPR Technology
May 18, 2022

Lesson from JPMorgan Chase and Goldman Sachs: Take a Hard Line on Return-to-Office at Your Own Risk

“The biggest problem with [it] is what to do when, as is clearly going to happen, employees do not return to the office full time. There are only two choices, one is to ignore it. That makes the firm and its leadership look weak. The other is to sanction employees with fines and punishment. This is even worse, as you are punishing employees that are otherwise highly performing for a rule they broke which is pointless and arbitrary.” — Nicholas Bloom, Profssor of Economics, Stanford University


Nicholas Bloom
Source: Time
May 16, 2022

Big ISPs Finally Gave Up on Blocking California’s Landmark Network Neutrality Law

“While California has been free to enforce its net neutrality law for over a year, today removes any doubt that the state has the right to protect its economy and democratic discourse from the whims of large phone and cable companies.” — Barbara van Schewick, Professor of Law, Stanford University


Barbara van Schewick
Source: Fast Company
May 6, 2022

What Your Android Phone’s New “Data Safety” Labels Mean

“Most of us want privacy, but we don’t want to spend every waking moment thinking about privacy.” — Lorrie Cranor, Director of the CyLab Security & Privacy Institute, Carnegie Mellon University,


Lorrie Faith Cranor
Source: The Washington Post
May 5, 2022

The Great Resignation: Its Origins and What It Means for Future Business

“We see quite large variations in how much people want to work from home, by age, by gender, whether they have kids, by race, by commute, time, by disability status.” — Nicholas Bloom, Professor of Economics, Stanford University


Nicholas Bloom
Source: ABC News
May 3, 2022

Should a Morning Staff Meeting Feel Like Homeroom?

“What’s the point of coming in if none of your co-workers are there? If you have to force employees to do something you think is in their benefit, it’s not in their benefit.” — Nicholas Bloom, Professor of Economics, Stanford ​University


Nicholas Bloom
Source: The New York Times
April 22, 2022

Opinion: The Law That Shaped the Internet Presents a Question for Elon Musk

[Twitter] can turn the content moderation up and please liberals or turn it down and please conservatives and libertarians, but “there’s no place on that slider that will make all the partisans happy.” — Eric Goldman, Professor of Law, Santa Clara University


Eric Goldman
Source: The New York Times
April 15, 2022

Elon Musk has a plan for Twitter. It may scare away users and advertisers.

“He's never been in this business. He’s been in a scattershot of businesses that have nothing to do with media or communication.” — Siva Vaidhyanathan, Professor of Media Studies, University of Virginia


Siva Vaidhyanathan
Source: NBC News
April 15, 2022
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Nicholas Bloom Discusses the Future of Work in a Post-Pandemic World

Stanford economics professor Nicholas Bloom shared his learnings from two decades of researching remote work on the Recalibrate Reality podcast. Professor Bloom states, “The reality of 2022 onwards is that hybrid is here to stay.”

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Net Neutrality

Given the significance of the Internet, preserving its “openness” – an idea often referred to as “network neutrality” or “net neutrality” – has been a long-standing issue.

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Proactive Moderation of Online Discussions: Existing Practices and the Potential for Algorithmic Support

Human moderators may intervene to stop users from posting offensive content, but proactive intervention is labor intensive. Algorithmic tools help moderators identify problematic conversations on a large scale.

By: Karen Levy, Charlotte Schluger, Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil, Jonathan P. Chang

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