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Yale Privacy Lab @yaleprivacylab.org · 15/04/2026
bsky.app/profile/yaleisp.bsky.socia… 📢 News & Updates from Yale ISP: “Former ISP Executive Director and @crootof.bsky.social (@University of Richmond School of Law) is in...”
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Yale Privacy Lab @yaleprivacylab.org · 14/04/2026
bsky.app/profile/yaleisp.bsky.socia… 📢 News & Updates from Yale ISP: “Tomorrow! We’re excited to host Prof. @crootof.bsky.social (University of Richmond School of Law) fo...”
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Yale Privacy Lab @yaleprivacylab.org · 10/04/2026
bsky.app/profile/yaleisp.bsky.socia… 📢 News & Updates from Yale ISP: “Thank you Prof. Matthew Lawrence (Emory University School of Law) for joining us for today’s Ideas L...”
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Yale Privacy Lab @yaleprivacylab.org · 05/04/2026
bsky.app/profile/yaleisp.bsky.socia… 📢 News & Updates from Yale ISP: “At this week's Ideas Lunch, Prof. Catherine Powell came to speak to us about "AI and Constitutional ...”
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Yale Privacy Lab @yaleprivacylab.org · 04/04/2026
bsky.app/profile/yaleisp.bsky.socia… 📢 News & Updates from Yale ISP: “Thursday, April 2, 2026 - 12:00PM-1:30PM - Baker Hall 405 Prof. Catherine Powell (Fordham Universit...”
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Yale Privacy Lab @yaleprivacylab.org · 03/04/2026
bsky.app/profile/yaleisp.bsky.socia… 📢 News & Updates from Yale ISP: “At this today's Law & Tech Talk, we had the pleasure of hosting Prof. Sonia Katyal for an insightful...”
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Yale Privacy Lab @yaleprivacylab.org · 02/04/2026
bsky.app/profile/yaleisp.bsky.socia… 📢 News & Updates from Yale ISP: “Two new articles by ISP fellow @ignaciocofone.bsky.social : The Privacy Paradox Is a Misnomer: Data...”
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Yale Privacy Lab @yaleprivacylab.org · 01/04/2026
bsky.app/profile/yaleisp.bsky.socia… 📢 News & Updates from Yale ISP: “Thank you to everyone who joined us this weekend for Global Political Economy of AI. We’re grateful ...”
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Yale Privacy Lab @yaleprivacylab.org · 31/03/2026
bsky.app/profile/yaleisp.bsky.socia… 📢 News & Updates from Yale ISP: “Join us tomorrow for a talk by Sonia Katyal (University of California, Berkeley Center for Law and T...”
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Yale Privacy Lab @yaleprivacylab.org · 29/03/2026
bsky.app/profile/yaleisp.bsky.socia… 📢 News & Updates from Yale ISP: “Read ISP fellow @klonick.bsky.social's new article: "Ban Cookie Banners: A Case Study in Tech Regula...”
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Yale Privacy Lab @yaleprivacylab.org · 28/03/2026
bsky.app/profile/yaleisp.bsky.socia… 📢 News & Updates from Yale ISP: “Read ISP fellow @Ximena Benavides' new article "Too Big to Lose Weight: How Pharmaceuticalization Co...”
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Yale Privacy Lab @yaleprivacylab.org · 27/03/2026
bsky.app/profile/yaleisp.bsky.socia… 📢 News & Updates from Yale ISP: “ISP is honored to host Prof. Julie Cohen (Georgetown Law) at tomorrow's Ideas Lunch for a talk on: "...”
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Yale Privacy Lab @yaleprivacylab.org · 26/03/2026
bsky.app/profile/yaleisp.bsky.socia… 📢 News & Updates from Yale ISP: “At today's Speaker Series, we were fortunate to host Prof. Seema N. Patel for a fascinating talk on ...”
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Yale Privacy Lab @yaleprivacylab.org · 25/03/2026
bsky.app/profile/yaleisp.bsky.socia… 📢 News & Updates from Yale ISP: “Join us tomorrow for “The Political Economy of Low-Wage Worker Datafication” with Seema N. Patel of ...”
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Yale Privacy Lab @yaleprivacylab.org · 24/03/2026
bsky.app/profile/yaleisp.bsky.socia… 💻 Latest from Yale ISP: “Join us tomorrow for “The Political Economy of Low-Wage Worker Datafication” with Seema N. Patel of ...”
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Yale Privacy Lab @yaleprivacylab.org · 08/12/2025
🤔 caller #privacy for unmonitored, informational phone lines 👇 github.com/connyay/redb...
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Sean O'Brien @profdiggity.com · 29/11/2025
Sometimes, the safest option is installing APKs directly from trusted developers. These methods can avoid ad trackers, #surveillance code, and unwanted data sharing. To cut off these options is to put many activists, journalists, whistleblowers, and ordinary users at risk.
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Sean O'Brien @profdiggity.com · 29/11/2025
Independent audits have consistently revealed these issues inside of Google Play, even *after* #Google claims to have scrubbed. For example, the X-mode SDK persisted long after it was banned in the USA by the FTC enforcement action, and was still present in many #Google Play apps...
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Sean O'Brien @profdiggity.com · 29/11/2025
Android is based upon free and #opensource software ( #FOSS) and that has always been defined by user choice. Blocking the capability to install apps directly from trusted sources outside #Google Play is not a small tweak. It removes a core freedom.
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Frank Bajak @fbajak.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
And while we’re pillorying Google for flagrant privacy invasions bsky.app/profile/yale...
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Yale Privacy Lab @yaleprivacylab.org · 28/11/2025
🫶 As the #Thanksgiving holiday weekend continues, we want to thank all the tech projects, legal initiatives, information activists, and educators out there. THANK YOU for defending #privacy & preserving #security of our digital commons!
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Yale Privacy Lab @yaleprivacylab.org · 28/11/2025
great reporting by @zackwhittaker.com on #Oura ring #privacy and #healthcare data, as well as US gov't data requests 👇https://privacysafe.social/@zackwhittaker@mastodon.social/115627975719141861
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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
When the Trump administration demanded ICEBlock’s removal, Apple complied—no rival app stores, just one gatekeeper’s decision, explains Meher Sethi. The takedown exposed how easily government pressure can travel through Apple and Google’s app-store duopoly and the risk it poses to democracy.
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No Kings, No Monopolies: How App Store Gatekeepers Enable Authoritarianism | TechPolicy.Press
Meher Sethi discusses how the app-store duopoly enables government pressure, including censorship of apps like ICEBlock, and poses growing risks to democracy.
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Yale Privacy Lab @yaleprivacylab.org · 22/11/2025
Our @profdiggity.com on #Google Nest #privacy: "Proximity signals alone can reveal when someone is home, when they leave and when they sleep... Over time, you get a very clear picture of household routine.” by @mikaelthalen.bsky.social san.com/cc/google-is...
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Google is still collecting data from your old Nest thermostat.
A security researcher discovered that Google is still collecting data from discontinued Nest thermostat models in millions of American homes.
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Yale Privacy Lab @yaleprivacylab.org · 31/10/2025
#FreedomOfSpeech discussions all day at the @mfia-clinic.bsky.social @yalepress.bsky.social #AAC2025 conference: 🧐👉 law.yale.edu/isp/initiati... #speech #1A
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Access & Accountability 2025
Access & Accountability 2025 Preserving the Architecture of AccountabilityFriday, October 318:00    REGISTRATION & CHECK-IN   Room 122     Coffee and light breakfast9:00    WELCOME   Room 127by David ...
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Sean O'Brien @profdiggity.com · 31/10/2025
Kicking off the @mfia-clinic.bsky.social @yaleisp.bsky.social #aac2025 conference on this lovely fall day in #NewHaven
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Thomas Kadri @thomaskadri.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
My new piece with @sonjawest.bsky.social is live in the Journal of Tort Law! Our original 50-state survey of 466 deepfake laws reveals a complex landscape in which lawmakers are experimenting with novel criminal, civil & administrative tools to address deepfakes. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
As deepfake technology becomes increasingly sophisticated and accessible, American lawmakers are responding with a flurry of urgent legislative action to address its potential harms. Our 50-state survey of proposed and enacted deepfake legislation reveals a complex regulatory landscape in which jurisdictions are adopting a range of legal approaches, including criminal punishments, civil remedies, or a combination of methods. We also find that legislators are frequently turning to tort-law frameworks to address the harms of deepfakes. This article explores the current landscape of tort-based regulations of deepfakes. In addition to providing an overview of the most recent legislative developments, we unpack and compare the various tort-law methods arising at the state and federal level. We further consider how lawmakers are modifying existing tort laws to address the unique concerns raised by deepfakes.
While individualistic tort remedies allow victims of deepfakes to seek direct recourse through familiar private rights of action, our analysis also identifies practical and conceptual limitations with this approach. Traditional tort frameworks struggle to address key challenges posed by deepfakes, including anonymous creation, viral distribution at technological scale, and harms affecting both individuals and society broadly.
In light of these limitations, legislators are innovatively adapting traditional tort concepts—such as standing, mental states, causation, immunities, and remedies—to address deepfakes’ unique characteristics. Yet the very need for these adaptations reveals some of tort law’s shortcomings and suggests a space for complementary regulatory approaches. We consider some potential approaches that could provide this more complete framework, like tort liability for entities that enable deepfake creation and circulation, and civil enforcement mechanisms that empower state actors to vindicate both individual and societal interests. Ultimately, our finding…
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Sean O'Brien @profdiggity.com · 17/10/2025
🤓 Register to contribute to the #FSF40 #hackathon. The energy since the event in #Boston a few weeks back has been great, and I really see a bright future (with your help!) 👇 www.fsf.org/events/fsf40...
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FSF40 Hackathon — Free Software Foundation — Working together for free software
Here is the list of projects so far that have declared that they will participate in the FSF40 hackathon:
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The Information Society Project at Yale Law School @yaleisp.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Tomorrow! Join us for Prof. Hannah Bloch-Wehba's (Texas A&M University School of Law) talk about: "How Tech Took Over" 📅 Thu., Oct. 16, 2025 ⏰12:00-1:30 PM 📍Baker Hall 405 DM for Zoom details (ISP fellows only)
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Lawfare @lawfaremedia.org · 15/10/2025
On Rational Security, @sranderson.bsky.social, @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org, @klonick.bsky.social, and @mollyroberts.bsky.social talked through the week’s big national security news stories, including the Trump administration’s peace plan for Gaza, the government shutdown, and more.
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Rational Security: The “Don’t Upset the Masks” Edition
YouTube video by Lawfare
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Yale Privacy Lab @yaleprivacylab.org · 15/10/2025
Our @profdiggity.com in @zdnet.bsky.social on #copyright and #AI
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Sean O'Brien @profdiggity.com · 15/10/2025
I recently spoke with @zdnet.bsky.social about the release of #OpenAI’s #Sora2, a tool that can generate lifelike videos from text prompts.
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The Information Society Project at Yale Law School @yaleisp.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
At this week’s Ideas Lunch, we had the pleasure of hosting @ariezra.bsky.social’s enlightening presentation on “Challenging Technology Expertise!”
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Yale Privacy Lab @yaleprivacylab.org · 03/04/2025
Face verification is a serious threat to #privacy. There is a lot to watch these days, but please take this campaign by @fightforthefuture.org seriously! www.stoponlineidchecks.org
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ONLINE ID CHECKS WILL RUIN THE INTERNET
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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
"Age verification" laws are actually "upload your ID or get your face scanned to access every website, ending anonymity and associating your identity with everything you do online" laws and if more people understood that they would not be down for this authoritarian nonsense
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Yale Privacy Lab @yaleprivacylab.org · 31/03/2025
Starting off #Monday with a fresh new look 🤩 privacylab.yale.edu We are updating all of our #ssd training materials to better approach the creeping #surveillance over our #privacy landscape. Stay Tuned! 📺
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Matthew Green @matthewdgreen.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
I wrote a post about how AI will interface with end-to-end encryption. TL;DR maybe not so well! blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2025/01/17/l...
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Let’s talk about AI and end-to-end encryption
Recently, I came across a fantastic new paper by a group of NYU and Cornell researchers entitled “How to think about end-to-end encryption and AI.” I’m extremely grateful to see t…
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Sean O'Brien @profdiggity.com · 21/01/2025
Timing attacks on @signal.org have always been a possibility re: media attachments because of the use of a CDN. This does not mean #Signal E2EE is "broken" but is something users should be aware of. I'm glad we have a demo to point to. Super important for many apps. gist.github.com/hackermondev...
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Unique 0-click deanonymization attack targeting Signal, Discord and hundreds of platform
Unique 0-click deanonymization attack targeting Signal, Discord and hundreds of platform - research.md
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Sean O'Brien @profdiggity.com · 03/01/2025
It's pretty damning that @Apple broke multiple wiretap laws and the settlement is *tiny* for a multi-trillion-dollar company. Hey #Siri, what does #privacy mean to you? psafe.ly/NKFkS2
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Paul Gowder @gowder.io · 01/01/2025
You may remember that I have to teach con law this spring after a 2-year long break, and I've been planning to go full crit, and also close reading of full texts (mostly but not exclusively cases) on core themes of our conflicts past and present. In case you're curious about the final readings:
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Sean O'Brien @profdiggity.com · 02/01/2025
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HereBeDragons @heredragons.be · 01/01/2025
Day 1 - #retrorandom - So no one will be surprised that I've found a picture of a Dragon to kick off this year of random photos from my archives! There's a lot to unpack here too. What we're seeing here is a Dragon with both VGA (right) and an MSX2 chipset (left) ... 1/3
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Craig Newmark @craignewmark.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
"... the damage caused by the Salt Typhoon hacks, the breach occurred in large part due to telecommunications companies *** failing to implement rudimentary cybersecurity measures*** across their IT infrastructure. " #pausetake9 #CyberCivilDefense cyberscoop.com/salt-typhoon...
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White House: Salt Typhoon hacks possible because telecoms lacked basic security measures
The White House said Friday the Salt Typhoon breach occurred in large part due to failures at telecom companies to protect their systems.
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The Information Society Project at Yale Law School @yaleisp.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Thank you to Abdi Aidid for an inspiring talk on “Privacy's Prediction Paradox” at today’s Law & Tech Talk!
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The Information Society Project at Yale Law School @yaleisp.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Our Bonnie Kaplan publishes a book chapter about "Ethical, Legal, and Social Issues in Digital Dermatology" link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
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Ethical, Legal, and Social Issues in Digital Dermatology
TelemedicineTelemedicine and artificial intelligenceArtificial intelligence (AI) are expected to revolutionize healthcare. These digital healthcare services can contribute to increased access to quali...
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The Information Society Project at Yale Law School @yaleisp.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Our Mila Samdub writes in @techpolicypress.bsky.social : What is Digital Public Infrastructure? Towards More Specificity www.techpolicy.press/what-is-digi...
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The Information Society Project at Yale Law School @yaleisp.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Our @asaflubin.bsky.social Lubin writes "On Software Bugs and Legal Bugs: Product Liability in the Age of Code" papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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On Software Bugs and Legal Bugs: Product Liability in the Age of Code
<p>Despite software’s ubiquity in modern life, its classification within product liability law remains unsettled. Is software a product, a service, a good, a co
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The Information Society Project at Yale Law School @yaleisp.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
ISP fellow @nikenberger.bsky.social erger writes about "Privacy Beyond Consent: Cofone’s Call for Privacy Torts" balkin.blogspot.com/2024/12/priv...
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Balkinization: Privacy Beyond Consent: Cofone’s Call for Privacy Torts
A group blog on constitutional law, theory, and politics
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Sean O'Brien @profdiggity.com · 29/12/2024
Very proud and lucky to be one of the 35 scholars who joined this #SCOTUS Amicus on #TikTok spearheaded by @anupamchander.bsky.social . Great legal minds made this happen on a very tight schedule. I'll have more thoughts very soon on the issue. psafe.ly/dQcp2a
Amicus brief
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Craig Newmark @craignewmark.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
Help protect yourself, your family, your job, your country. Join the Pause. Join us at @pausetake9 #CyberCivilDefense #Take9
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