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Rebecca Crootof @crootof.bsky.social · Sep 2

As many know, @bjard.bsky.social and I have been drafting a Technology Law coursebook for a few years. We've used it to teach classes at three institutions, including Yale Law School, and others have used chapters in their techlaw classes.

We're excited to share the current version more broadly!

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Claudia Haupt @cehaupt.bsky.social · 27d

Always read @ignaciocofone.bsky.social, including accidental legal history.

Ignacio Cofone @ignaciocofone.bsky.social · 27d

Glad to see this chapter published. I always found history of law quite interesting, and I never thought I would accidentally do it by writing in 2023-2024 a chapter focused on two now dead pieces of legislation! academic.oup.com/edited-volum...

Generative AI Regulation in the US and Canada

AbstractThe US and Canada regulate generative AI in different ways for the public and private sectors. They both have federal frameworks that set AI-specif

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Ignacio Cofone @ignaciocofone.bsky.social · 27d

Glad to see this chapter published. I always found history of law quite interesting, and I never thought I would accidentally do it by writing in 2023-2024 a chapter focused on two now dead pieces of legislation! academic.oup.com/edited-volum...

Generative AI Regulation in the US and Canada

AbstractThe US and Canada regulate generative AI in different ways for the public and private sectors. They both have federal frameworks that set AI-specif

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Ignacio Cofone @ignaciocofone.bsky.social · Sep 8

What a nice surprise to find this review of The Privacy Fallacy in the Society for Technical Communication by Donald Riccomini. Thankful to the reviewer for engaging the book and the claim that we need a new type of accountability www.jstor.org/stable/27373...

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Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · Aug 28

My article "Protecting Consumers in a Post-Consent World," about how we can broaden antitrust and consumer protection to deal with the fact that we have abandoned notice and consent in contract law, is now published in the Stanford Law Review Online.

www.stanfordlawreview.org/online/prote...

Protecting Consumers in a Post-Consent World | Stanford Law Review

In Charting a New Course on Digital Consumer Protection at the Federal Trade Commission, former FTC Chair Lina Khan and her co-authors Samuel Levine a

www.stanfordlawreview.org

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Ignacio Cofone @ignaciocofone.bsky.social · Aug 28

As other recent news of death by suicide, this shows CSR in AI requires building products that avoid fostering addiction and are less parasocial. Reducing sycophancy and downplaying the illusion of personality mitigates risks of unhealthy AI reliance
www.theglobeandmail.com/business/com...

Opinion: Don’t hate ChatGPT-5. Your chatbot is not your friend

The reaction to OpenAI’s new GPT-5 system shows the risks of making a chatbot too humanlike

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Ignacio Cofone @ignaciocofone.bsky.social · Aug 28

New op-ed: Many users were distraught over OpenAI’s shift from GPT-4o to GPT-5, describing the change as “losing a friend” or a “therapist.” The enormous online reaction shows that, when language models sound convincingly human, people start to forget they aren't.

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Ignacio Cofone @ignaciocofone.bsky.social · Aug 21

Big thank you to @frankpasquale.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy for his generous review of The Privacy Fallacy in the Journal of Law & Political Economy. He lays out the difficult questions involved in valuing harm & distributing compensation, in which LPE can play a role escholarship.org/uc/item/4jz9...

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Alicia Solow-Niederman @aliciasn.bsky.social · Aug 17

I'm delighted to share that my article, AI and Doctrinal Collapse, is forthcoming in Stanford Law Review! Draft at papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.....

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Faculty of Law @oxfordlawfac.bsky.social · Jul 21

🎉 We are delighted to announce that Lionel Smith, Professor of Comparative Law at the University of Oxford, has been elected a Fellow of the British Academy 👏

He joins a community of over 1,800 scholars who share a commitment to advancing the humanities and social sciences.

👇 shorturl.at/3Bkyg

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Tiffany C. Li @tiffanycli.bsky.social · Jul 19

I often think of this intentional stylistic choice as the opposite of Madeleine Elish’s “moral crumple zone” papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Moral Crumple Zones: Cautionary Tales in Human-Robot Interaction (pre-print)

As debates about the policy and ethical implications of AI systems grow, it will be increasingly important to accurately locate who is responsible when agency i

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Ignacio Cofone @ignaciocofone.bsky.social · Jul 18

D’Souza highlights something key: AI makes new inferences that amplify harms we can’t meaningfully consent to or control. So “navigating the artificially intelligent world of the near future”, as he puts it, is a call for new forms of accountability digitalcommons.schulichlaw.dal.ca/cjlt/vol22/i...

The Privacy Fallacy: Harm and Power in the Information Economy by Ignacio Cofone

‘‘Our privacy is besieged by tech companies,”1 laments Ignacio Cofone, Law Professor and privacy aficionado, in The Privacy Fallacy: Harm and Power in the Information Economy. In an enlightening yet h...

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Ignacio Cofone @ignaciocofone.bsky.social · Jul 18

Grateful to Christopher D’Souza for his thoughtful review of The Privacy Fallacy in the Canadian Journal of Law & Technology. He that our privacy regime is, as he says,“not only outdated, but untenable” in the face of current data practices.

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Ignacio Cofone @ignaciocofone.bsky.social · Jul 17

CDS highlights something crucial: AI makes new types of inferences that amplify harms we can’t meaningfully consent to or control. “Navigating the artificially intelligent world of the near future”, as he puts it, is a call for data accountability digitalcommons.schulichlaw.dal.ca/cjlt/vol22/i...

The Privacy Fallacy: Harm and Power in the Information Economy by Ignacio Cofone

‘‘Our privacy is besieged by tech companies,”1 laments Ignacio Cofone, Law Professor and privacy aficionado, in The Privacy Fallacy: Harm and Power in the Information Economy. In an enlightening yet h...

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The Information Society Project at Yale Law School @yaleisp.bsky.social · Jul 3

Check out recorded talks from our Law & Tech Speaker Series: lnkd.in/eBZ2prw7

In “Why AI Requires Rebuilding Privacy Law”, Prof. @ignaciocofone.bsky.social explains why AI demands shifting privacy law from individual control to harm prevention.

👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsQV...

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Tiffany C. Li @tiffanycli.bsky.social · Jun 25

New draft from me, “Privacy and Disinformation,” on why privacy law, not speech or economic regulation, is the best path forward for fighting social media disinformation.

Read the draft here (and later finalized in UC Law Journal): papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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Andrew Guthrie Ferguson @profferguson.bsky.social · Jun 12

What an amazing resource by @daniel-solove.bsky.social. A history of privacy books.

Makes a perfect summer reading list.

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Notable Privacy Books: A Journey Through History

In this essay, I discuss notable privacy books from the 1960s to 2020s – seven decades and more than 400 books. I briefly explain why each book is note

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Ignacio Cofone @ignaciocofone.bsky.social · Jun 5

Helpful article for this, @thomaskadri.bsky.social's Platforms as Blackacres www.uclalawreview.org/platforms-as...

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TeachPrivacy @teachprivacy.bsky.social · Jun 2

In this essay, @daniel-solove.bsky.social discusses 400+ privacy books over the past 70+ years papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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Margot @margotkaminski.bsky.social · May 21

The EU AI Act establishes a different right to explanation of an AI system's decisions than the GDPR: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... (by Kaminski & Malgieri)

The Right to Explanation in the AI Act

This chapter offers a comprehensive analysis of Article 86 of the EU Artificial Intelligence Act, which introduces a right to explanation for individuals affect

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Kristen Thomasen @kristenthomasen.bsky.social · May 23

ICYMI: We Robot 2025 has a new permanent online home @windsorlaw.bsky.social, along with 2 exciting updates:

🤖 Video links are now included for each of our panels. Revisit or check out the conversation if you couldn't join us in person.

🤖 And (see next post) 1/3

www.uwindsor.ca/law/3450/wer...

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Ignacio Cofone @ignaciocofone.bsky.social · May 24

So glad you liked the book @bwaber.bsky.social, thanks for writing the review

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Ignacio Cofone @ignaciocofone.bsky.social · May 24

Thank you!!

Ben Waber @bwaber.bsky.social · May 24

Last was "The Privacy Fallacy" by @ignaciocofone.bsky.social. The back half of the book is an enlightening and clarifying examination of the privacy legal landscape and an analysis of strategies to improve on the status quo. Highly recommend

Full review: bookwyrm.social/user/bwaber/... (5/5)

The Privacy Fallacy

Cambridge Core - Law and technology, science, communication - The Privacy Fallacy

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Ignacio Cofone @ignaciocofone.bsky.social · May 21

Glad you liked the talk! There's a forthcoming paper with Katherine Strandburg from NYU on this project and I'd be happy to send it if interested

Ben Waber @bwaber.bsky.social · May 21

Next was a great talk by @ignaciocofone.bsky.social on the complex role of transparency in ethically disclosing AI decision system operations at @ox.ac.uk www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZtH... (7/12)

Rethinking Algorithmic Opacity: A Principal-Agent Framework for Responsible AI Disclosures

YouTube video by Saïd Business School, University of Oxford

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Ignacio Cofone @ignaciocofone.bsky.social · Apr 18

We used to talk about how, and not whether, to regulate AI bias/discrimination. "But those conversations are becoming increasingly difficult to have" www.politico.com/newsletters/...

How the “woke” debate is shaking up AI

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