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Chinmayi Sharma

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Lawfare @lawfaremedia.org · 14/09/2026
Twenty-five years after the war on terror began, the United States still hasn’t grappled with its legacy of torture or the law that enabled it. @nkorpett.bsky.social explains why criminal and civil law (mostly) failed to hold torturers accountable and why that failure matters.
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9/11’s Legacy of Torture
Twenty-five years after the war on terror began, the United States still hasn’t grappled with its legacy of torture—or the law that enabled it.
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Fordham Law School @fordhamlawnyc.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Fordham Law Professor Chinmayi Sharma (@chinmayisharma.bsky.social)—whose research focuses on artificial intelligence—weighs in on what high-profile researcher resignations reveal about AI safety concerns and market acceleration. via Fast Company (@fastcompany.com)
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AI workers who publicly quit 'help to move the needle' with safety concerns, experts say
'People are beginning to actually listen' to the technology’s dangers as more AI leaders and researchers openly sound alarms.
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Fordham Law School @fordhamlawnyc.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
In this Lawfare (@lawfaremedia.org) article, Fordham Law Professor Chinmayi Sharma (@chinmayisharma.bsky.social) writes about what she feels current debate around open-weight models keeps missing.
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Open-Weight Diplomacy: How China’s AI Models Are Rerunning the Digital Silk Road
China's “free” AI models are rerunning Huawei’s telecom playbook: Give the weights away, sell the stack around it, own the dependency.
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Fordham Law School @fordhamlawnyc.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
On the 25th anniversary of 9/11, Fordham Law Professor Chinmayi Sharma (@chinmayisharma.bsky.social) examines the long-term consequences of post-tragedy national security policy. via Lawfare (@lawfaremedia.org)
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Ordinary Origins: How 9/11 Built Today's Immigration Enforcement Machine
Post-9/11 data-sharing systems built for security quietly became the infrastructure for today’s automated immigration enforcement.
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Lawfare @lawfaremedia.org · 11/09/2026
Sept. 11, 2001 recast immigration as a national security problem and a national security problem invites an intelligence solution: more data, more sources, and fewer barriers. @chinmayisharma.bsky.social traces how post-9/11 data-sharing policies have enabled today's immigration enforcement system.
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Ordinary Origins: How 9/11 Built Today's Immigration Enforcement Machine
Post-9/11 data-sharing systems built for security quietly became the infrastructure for today’s automated immigration enforcement.
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Chinmayi Sharma @chinmayisharma.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
For the 25th anniversary of 9/11, I wrote for @lawfaremedia.org about how ordinary post-9/11 choices—more data-sharing, surveillance, power—helped recast immigration as national security and built machinery that can now be used for things it was not meant for. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/ordi...
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Ordinary Origins: How 9/11 Built Today's Immigration Enforcement Machine
Post-9/11 data-sharing systems built for security quietly became the infrastructure for today’s automated immigration enforcement.
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Fordham Law School @fordhamlawnyc.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Congrats to Fordham Law Professor Chinmayi Sharma (@chinmayisharma.bsky.social), who’s been named to the National Law Review and Wickard’s Top 50 Legal Innovators in Academia for her work designing a law & tech competition. 📝 : natlawreview.com/article/2026-top-5…
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Lawfare @lawfaremedia.org · 03/09/2026
Despite the U.S.’s attempts to undercut its position, Huawei, China’s telecom giant, remains the world’s largest telecom equipment vendor. @chinmayisharma.bsky.social explains what the U.S. should do if it wants to avoid a similar result in the AI sphere.
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Open-Weight Diplomacy: How China’s AI Models Are Rerunning the Digital Silk Road
China's “free” AI models are rerunning Huawei’s telecom playbook: Give the weights away, sell the stack around it, own the dependency.
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Thomas Kadri @thomaskadri.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Hear, hear! Appreciate the endorsement of my work with @chinmayisharma.bsky.social & @samadler.bsky.social in “Brokering Safety.”
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Fordham Law School @fordhamlawnyc.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Fordham Law Professor Chinmayi Sharma (@chinmayisharma.bsky.social)—whose research focuses on artificial intelligence—spoke with the Philadelphia Inquirer (@inquirer.com) about the diligence required to check AI-generated work.
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How more than 3,000 Pennsylvania state government employees are using AI at work
In 2024, Pennsylvania became the first state in the nation to enter into an agreement with OpenAI. State officials stress that the AI tools improve efficiency without cutting jobs.
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Frank Pasquale @frankpasquale.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
We need "a techno-legal system that would enable victims to obscure their information across all data brokers with a single request, redistributing the burden away from victims and onto brokers." static1.squarespace.com/static/640d6...
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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
"Brokering Safety" by Chinmayi Sharma, Thomas E. Kadri and Sam Adler "Enable victims to obscure their information across all data brokers with a single request." Yes, yes. A thousand times yes! @chinmayisharma.bsky.social @thomaskadri.bsky.social @samadler.bsky.social
Brokering Safety

Chinmayi Sharma,* Thomas E. Kadri** & Sam Adler***
For victims of abuse, safety means hiding. Not just hiding
themselves, but also their contact details, their address, their
workplace, their roommates, and any other information that could
enable their abuser to target them. Yet today, no number of name
changes and relocations can prevent data brokers from sharing a
victim’s personal information online. Thanks to brokers, abusers can
find what they need with a single search, a few clicks, and a few
dollars. For many victims, then, the best hope for safety lies in
obscurity—that is, making themselves and their information harder to
find.
This Article exposes privacy law’s complicity in this phenomenon
of “brokered abuse.” Today, victims seeking obscurity can ask data
brokers to remove their online information. But a web of privacy laws
props up a fragmented and opaque system that forces victims to
navigate potentially hundreds of distinct opt-out processes, wait
months for their information to be removed, and then repeat this
process continuously to ensure their information doesn’t resurface.
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LSE US Politics and Policy blog - USAPP @lseusablog.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
AI harm, accountability, and cybersecurity with Professor @chinmayisharma.bsky.social of @fordhamlawnyc.bsky.social | The Ballpark podcast blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/20...
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AI harm, accountability, and cybersecurity with Professor Chinmayi Sharma | The Ballpark podcast | LSE United States Politics and Policy
AI has become easily accessible, easy to use, and for many people, it’s a useful tool. This means that AI is being used by individuals and institutions to help solve a variety of challenges, from ever...
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Fordham Law School @fordhamlawnyc.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Fordham Law Professor Chinmayi Sharma (@chinmayisharma.bsky.social) spoke with The Verge (@theverge.com) about open-weight AI models—including China's new models that "allegedly beat some of the best systems built by U.S. companies at a fraction of the cost."
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The AI giants’ new problem: open AI
Chinese labs like Moonshot are forcing OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic to rethink what they lock away.
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
You opened a credit card. ICE now knows where you live. Here's how when you open a credit card your address leaves your bank, goes through middlemen companies, and ends up with ICE. ICE plans to use this data for immigration and 'voter fraud'. No warrant More: www.404media.co/you-opened-a...
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Fordham Law School @fordhamlawnyc.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
In a Washington University Law Review (@washulawreview.bsky.social) article, Fordham Law Professor Chinmayi Sharma (@chinmayisharma.bsky.social) argues that harmful artificial intelligence should be addressed by professionalizing AI engineering. via The Regulatory Review (@theregreview.bsky.social)
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Regulating AI Companions | The Regulatory Review
Scholars examine how regulators should respond to risks posed by AI companions.
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Fordham Law School @fordhamlawnyc.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Fordham Law Prof. Chinmayi Sharma (@chinmayisharma.bsky.social) has joined UNESCO’s AI Ethics Experts without Borders Network, a global community of 152 professionals working to advance the ethical governance of AI. Her work focuses on open source, AI, cybersecurity, & tech regulation and liability.
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Daniel Solove @daniel-solove.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Works mentioned in danielsolove.substack.com/p/privacy-ai... include ones by @aliciasn.bsky.social @thomaskadri.bsky.social @hartzog.bsky.social @kashhill.bsky.social @paulschwartz.bsky.social @evanselinger.bsky.social @chinmayisharma.bsky.social @iajunwa.bsky.social @carissaveliz.bsky.social
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Olivier Sylvain @oliviersylvain.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Brokering Safety is really good. I'm grateful that I could get a chance to engage it so closely. Thanks @thomaskadri.bsky.social @chinmayisharma.bsky.social & @samadler.bsky.social for writing it.
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Thomas Kadri @thomaskadri.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Honored and a little starstruck by three essays just published in the California Law Review (@califlrev.bsky.social), responding to “Brokering Safety” (my recent article with @chinmayisharma.bsky.social & @samadler.bsky.social). papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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Brokering Safety
For victims of abuse, safety means hiding. Not just hiding themselves, but also hiding their contact details, their address, their workplace, their roommates, a
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Fordham Law School @fordhamlawnyc.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Palantir's ImmigrationOS poses serious threats to democratic governance & the rule of law, according to a new legal analysis by Fordham Law Prof. Chinmayi Sharma (@chinmayisharma.bsky.social) & recent grad Sam Adler '26 JD (@samadler.bsky.social). via Tech Policy Press (@techpolicypress.bsky.social)
techpolicy.press
Why Palantir's ImmigrationOS Endangers Democracy and the Rule of Law
A conversation with Fordham Law School's Chinmayi Sharma and Sam Adler, authors of a new law review article, "Immigration Enforcement Intermediaries."
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Fordham Law School @fordhamlawnyc.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Headline-generating artificial intelligence (AI) hallucinations in the legal industry have some questioning whether carriers who insure lawyers may be looking to change future liability policies. Fordham Law Professor Chinmayi Sharma (@chinmayisharma.bsky.social) spoke with Law.com about the matter.
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Rising AI Mistakes in Legal Pose Quandary for Law Firms' Insurance Policies | Law.com
Headline-generating AI hallucinations in the legal industry have some questioning whether carriers who insure lawyers may be looking to change future liability policies.
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Fordham Law School @fordhamlawnyc.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
A forthcoming law review article written by Fordham Law Prof. Chinmayi Sharma (@chinmayisharma.bsky.social) & Sam Adler '26 (@samadler.bsky.social) was cited by the BC General Employees' Union. Read the proposal: investors.thomsonreuters.com/static…
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California Law Review @califlrev.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
@chinmayisharma.bsky.social , @thomaskadri.bsky.social, and @samadler.bsky.social propose a new system of regulating data brokers when it comes to their impacts on victims of abuse and stalking.
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Fordham Law School @fordhamlawnyc.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
The Center for AI and Digital Policy (CAIDP) has welcomed 12 new members to the Global Academic Network—including Fordham Law Professor Chinmayi Sharma (@chinmayisharma.bsky.social). These members are leading experts in AI law and policy & will provide advice to CAIDP across its program activities.
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Tyler McBrien @tylermcbrien.com · 11/05/2026
Huge thanks to everyone who has reached out so far about the state court access map! I'm hoping to work through updates later today. Got an idea for another tool or data visualization of some kind that you wish existed? DM me or email tylermcbrien [at] protonmail [dot] to get in touch.
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Fordham Law School @fordhamlawnyc.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Fordham Law Professor Chinmayi Sharma (@chinmayisharma.bsky.social) sits down with Lawfare (@lawfaremedia.org) Managing Editor Tyler McBrien (@tylermcbrien.com) to discuss her forthcoming law review article and the U.S. federal government’s privatized and automated system of immigration enforcement.
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Lawfare Daily: The Dangers of Privatized, Automated Immigration Enforcement
A discussion of the U.S. federal government’s increasingly privatized and automated system of immigration enforcement.
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Fordham Law School @fordhamlawnyc.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Fordham Law Prof. Chinmayi Sharma (@chinmayisharma.bsky.social) discusses her new Article, "Immigration Enforcement Intermediaries" (co-authored with student Sam Adler '26 JD, @samadler.bsky.social), with Tech Policy Press (@techpolicypress.bsky.social)'s Justin Hendrix (@justinhendrix.bsky.social).
techpolicy.press
Why Palantir's ImmigrationOS Endangers Democracy and the Rule of Law
A conversation with Fordham Law School's Chinmayi Sharma and Sam Adler, authors of a new law review article, "Immigration Enforcement Intermediaries."
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Lawfare @lawfaremedia.org · 01/05/2026
As adoption of AI becomes more widespread, Cullen O'Keefe, @alanrozenshtein.com, and Christopher Winter explore the risks to the rule of law from the use of frontier AI in the executive branch and to ensure any ExecAI safeguards foundational rights and liberties.
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Executive Branch AI and the Rule of Law: An Emerging Research Agenda
Sooner or later, in this administration or a future one, AI will come for the federal workforce.
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Emile Ayoub @emileayoub.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
This is a great convo w/ @chinmayisharma.bsky.social about how DHS’s vendor-mediated surveillance infrastructure threatens civil liberties and democratic accountability. Check out her insightful paper with @samadler.bsky.social for more, incl. how states can counter harms: ssrn.com/abstract=634...
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Immigration Enforcement Intermediaries
Fingerprints, facial recognition scans, genetic data, social media content, benefits documentation and more fuel the federal government's new immigration enforc
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Tyler McBrien @tylermcbrien.com · 30/04/2026
A huge thanks to @chinmayisharma.bsky.social for joining me on the @lawfaremedia.org podcast to talk about both the dangers of a privatized, automated immigration system and the ways states can counteract these harms to immigrants, society, and the rule of law itself. Listen below 🔽
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Chinmayi Sharma @chinmayisharma.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
@bcgeu.bsky.social is doing incredible work holding data broker @thomasreuters.bsky.social accountable for their role in immigration enforcement - selling the government hordes of sensitive personal data - through shareholder proposals calling for human rights assessments. Honored to be cited.
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Chinmayi Sharma @chinmayisharma.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Loved chatting with @tylermcbrien.com on the @lawfaremedia.org Daily podcast about my new paper with @samadler.bsky.social: Immigration Enforcement Intermediaries. It is hard to overstate the very real harms of the multi-headed Hydra of private tech’s immigration enforcement stack. Listen in!
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Chinmayi Sharma @chinmayisharma.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
So excited that Brokering Safety is finally out in the California Law Review! It was such a joy to write this piece with Thomas and Sam, however disturbing the underlying phenomenon we tackle: the abuse enabled by data brokers and the need for a centralized system to empower victims to opt out.
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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
I wrote about RightsCon's cancellation after Zambia's government announced it would postpone the event to sort out its concerns over "thematic issues." With thousands about to depart (or already en route) to Lusaka, it's a huge blow to the digital and human rights field.
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RightsCon Canceled After Zambia Requires ‘Full Alignment’ With 'National Values'
Organizers canceled the event just days before thousands were set to descend on Lusaka to discuss issues at the intersection of technology and human rights.
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Sam Adler @samadler.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Delighted that @bcgeu.bsky.social cited to my and @chinmayisharma.bsky.social’s forthcoming article, Immigration Enforcement Intermediaries, in their shareholder proposal demanding Thomson Reuters investigate their DHS & ICE contracts! You can find the article here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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Thomas Kadri @thomaskadri.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
New in the 𝘊𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘯𝘪𝘢 𝘓𝘢𝘸 𝘙𝘦𝘷𝘪𝘦𝘸 from Chinmayi Sharma, Sam Adler & me: 𝘉𝘳𝘰𝘬𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘚𝘢𝘧𝘦𝘵𝘺 explores privacy law’s complicity in how data brokers exacerbate abuse & harassment. Such a pleasure working with @chinmayisharma.bsky.social, @samadler.bsky.social & the terrific team at @califlrev.bsky.social!
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Fordham Law School @fordhamlawnyc.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Fordham Law Prof. Chinmayi Sharma (@chinmayisharma.bsky.social)—whose research focuses on cyber & AI—tells Bloomberg Law (@bloomberglaw.com) that AI’s potential to spot gaps in software would still leave cyber teams with the same weaknesses and challenges they’ve been facing for the last few years.
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Mythos as Hacking Tool Fuels Company Anxiety Over Cyber Defense
The buzz around AI model Mythos and its power to outsmart cybersecurity defenses is alarming companies and vendors already struggling to fend off existing threats.
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Sam Adler @samadler.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
“Immigration Enforcement Intermediaries” is forthcoming in the BYU Law Review! @chinmayisharma.bsky.social and I describe how the rise of a vendor-mediated enforcement apparatus disrupts immigration federalism and circumvents democratic accountability. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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Chinmayi Sharma @chinmayisharma.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Honored and excited to have joined @justinhendrix.bsky.social’s podcast for @techpolicypress.bsky.social to discuss my new paper with @samadler.bsky.social about the way the new privatized automated immigration apparatus threatens core rule of law values and sidelines the democratic process.
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Chinmayi Sharma @chinmayisharma.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
So excited that my article with @samadler.bsky.social will be published in the BYU Law Review! It takes apart the privatized, automated architecture of the new immigration enforcement regime and gives an unvarnished critique of how it erodes federalism, democratic oversight, and civil liberties.
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Amos Toh @amostoh.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
1/ As the US continues AI-enabled strikes on Iran, new @brennancenter.org research from @emileayoub.bsky.social and me examines how the military’s investments in the technology have been building to this moment. Congress must step up and reckon with AI’s dangers to life, liberty, and democracy 🧵:
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The Business of Military AI
The Pentagon has been spending tens of billions of dollars to adopt new technologies at breakneck speed. Without oversight and safeguards, military applications of artificial intelligence could jeopar...
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Chinmayi Sharma @chinmayisharma.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Incredibly thorough report about an incredibly important, and profoundly concerning, set of developments today.
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Fordham Law School @fordhamlawnyc.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Fordham Law Prof. Chinmayi Sharma (@chinmayisharma.bsky.social) & student Sam Adler '26 JD (@samadler.bsky.social) explore private tech vendors & immigration federalism, in their new article published on @ssrn.bsky.social, "The Enforcement Triangle: How Automation Rewired Immigration Governance." 📝:
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The Enforcement Triangle: How Automation Rewired Immigration Governance
<p><span>Fingerprints, facial recognition scans, genetic data, social media content, benefits documentation and more fuel the federal government's new immigrati
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Alan Rozenshtein @alanrozenshtein.com · 28/02/2026
Given that "open-source" AI is about to become a lot more important going forward, here's something that may be of interest to AI law and policy folks (with @chinmayisharma.bsky.social and @ptnobel.bsky.social ). papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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Thomas Kadri @thomaskadri.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Excellent & empathetic reporting by @iododds.bsky.social in @the-independent.com about data brokers & interpersonal abuse, with smart quotes from @samadler.bsky.social & mentions of our forthcoming @califlrev.bsky.social article w/ @chinmayisharma.bsky.social. www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...
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Inside the dangerous and shady business of data brokers
Even if you don't know data brokers, they almost certainly know you. With no nationwide U.S. privacy laws, experts warn there are often minimal safeguards against motivated people exploiting them for ...
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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Proud to play a role in helping get this together for @justsecurity.org. It provides you with details from the sworn declarations filed in support of the ACLU's lawsuit in Minnesota, Hussen v. Noem. The details of abuses by federal agents across the 29 declarations we looked at are chilling.
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Minnesota ICE Enforcement: Alleged Constitutional Violations
The ACLU and partners sued over alleged racial profiling and unlawful arrests in Minnesota. Read sworn declarations and case details.
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SSRN @ssrn.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Untangling #AI Openness: This article examines the complex debate over AI openness & highlights the need for policymakers to balance #innovation, access, safety, & national security. Read: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... Subscribe: www.ssrn.com/index.cfm/en... #LawSky #AICommunity
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Minnesota Law @umnlawschool.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
The debate over openness in artificial intelligence (AI) is the topic of a forthcoming article, “Unbundling AI Openness”, in the Wisconsin Law Review, co-authored by Minnesota Law professor @alanrozenshtein.com, with colleagues @ptnobel.bsky.social, and @chinmayisharma.bsky.social. z.umn.edu/awsx
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