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Thomas Kadri @thomaskadri.bsky.social · Sep 8

Can't wait to dive into this! Nothing like some smart obscurity takes to start the week.

Thomas Kadri @thomaskadri.bsky.social · Sep 8

If you fancy a meta experience today, consider listening to an AI-generated workshop from @christianturner.bsky.social's enTalkenator of my article with @sonjawest.bsky.social about AI-generated deepfakes being featured as DoTW by @lsolum.bsky.social! www.entalkenator.com/podcast/work...

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Thomas Kadri @thomaskadri.bsky.social · Sep 6

Thanks to @lsolum.bsky.social for the generous recommendation of my forthcoming piece with @sonjawest.bsky.social!

Lawrence Solum @lsolum.bsky.social · Sep 6

Download of the Week: "Deepfake Torts" by Kadri & West,, buff.ly/mHVqTbJ - The Download of the Week is Deepfake Torts: Emerging Tort Frameworks in U.S. Deepfake Regulation by Thomas Kadri & Sonja West.

Download of the Week: "Deepfake Torts" by Kadri & West

The Download of the Week is Deepfake Torts: Emerging Tort Frameworks in U.S. Deepfake Regulation by Thomas Kadri & Sonja West . Here is the abstract: As deepfake technology becomes increasingly…

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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · Aug 18

I talked to 404 Media about devices for tracking and spying on your partner being sold on TikTok. This is not stalkerware, but these are devices for tech-enabled abuse and I think we should be talking about tech-enabled abuse more broadly.

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TikTok Shop Sells Viral GPS Trackers Marketed to Stalkers

"If your girl says she’s just out with friends every night, you’d better slap one of these on her car."

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Sam Adler @samadler.bsky.social · Aug 8

Appreciate the opportunity to write with @thomaskadri.bsky.social and @chinmayisharma.bsky.social for @lawfaremedia.org to call for a more expansive right to obscurity, building off our article—Brokering Safety—forthcoming in @califlrev.bsky.social

Lawfare @lawfaremedia.org · Aug 8

The perpetrator of an assasination of a Minnesota lawmaker in June likely used data brokers to find personal information of his victims. Sam Adler, @thomaskadri.bsky.social, and @chinmayisharma.bsky.social look at how policymakers should address this brokered violence.

Brokered Violence: Safety for Sale in the Free Marketplace of Data

In a world where data brokers enable violence by selling our information, safety requires a data-deletion right that people can reliably enforce.

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Chinmayi Sharma @chinmayisharma.bsky.social · Aug 8

Excited to share a @lawfaremedia.org piece with @thomaskadri.bsky.social and @samadler.bsky.social that builds off our article Brokering Safety, forthcoming in @califlrev.bsky.social, that calls for an overdue conversation about how much we privilege data broker profits over human safety.

Lawfare @lawfaremedia.org · Aug 8

The perpetrator of an assasination of a Minnesota lawmaker in June likely used data brokers to find personal information of his victims. Sam Adler, @thomaskadri.bsky.social, and @chinmayisharma.bsky.social look at how policymakers should address this brokered violence.

Brokered Violence: Safety for Sale in the Free Marketplace of Data

In a world where data brokers enable violence by selling our information, safety requires a data-deletion right that people can reliably enforce.

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Thomas Kadri @thomaskadri.bsky.social · Aug 8

For more details on the full proposal, check out our draft: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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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Thomas Kadri @thomaskadri.bsky.social · Aug 8

A new provocation from me, @samadler.bsky.social & @chinmayisharma.bsky.social to extend the proposal in our forthcoming Calif. L. Rev. (@califlrev.bsky.social) piece by letting *anyone* force data brokers to obscure info through a centralized process. It's time to call the 1st Amendment question!

Lawfare @lawfaremedia.org · Aug 8

The perpetrator of an assasination of a Minnesota lawmaker in June likely used data brokers to find personal information of his victims. Sam Adler, @thomaskadri.bsky.social, and @chinmayisharma.bsky.social look at how policymakers should address this brokered violence.

Brokered Violence: Safety for Sale in the Free Marketplace of Data

In a world where data brokers enable violence by selling our information, safety requires a data-deletion right that people can reliably enforce.

www.lawfaremedia.org

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Thomas Kadri @thomaskadri.bsky.social · Aug 5

Well, this was a lovely surprise! www.pace.edu/news/brenda-...

Brenda Dvoskin and Thomas E. Kadri Receive 2025–2026 Haub Law Emerging Scholar Award in Women, Gender & Law

Professors Brenda Dvoskin of Washington University School of Law and Thomas E. Kadri of the University of Georgia School of Law have been selected as the recipients of the 2025–2026 Haub Law Emerging ...

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Dean Rusk International Law Center @deanruskintlaw.bsky.social · Jul 2

@ugaschooloflaw.bsky.social Professor @thomaskadri.bsky.social recently spent time as a fellow at @eui-eu.bsky.social ‬in Florence, Italy.

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Thomas Kadri @thomaskadri.bsky.social · Apr 18

So proud to see this piece out in the world and excited about the research agenda it anticipates, shedding light on the political economy and capitalist maneuvers of prison healthcare. petrieflom.law.harvard.edu/2025/04/18/t...

The Constitutive Contradictions of Prison Health Care in the United States - Petrie-Flom Center

From forced labor on plantations, roads, and industrial plants to extracting blood, fines, and fees, incarcerated peoples’ bodies have been a known site of capitalist exploitation. Yet, they are also ...

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Sam Adler @samadler.bsky.social · Apr 10

Thank you @thomaskadri.bsky.social for pairing scholarship with action. Drawing on our article with @chinmayisharma.bsky.social (Brokering Safety), Thomas testified in support of MA’s Location Shield Act and emphasized its importance in mitigating abuse survivors’ privacy self-management burden.

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And Sam Adler called brokering safety explores how data brokers

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Lawrence Solum @lsolum.bsky.social · Mar 14

Sharma, Kadri, & Adler on Data Brokers and Safety for Abuse Victims, buff.ly/E4hgZG3 - Chinmayi Sharma (Fordham Law), Thomas Kadri (University of Georgia School of Law), & Sam Adler (Fordham Law) have posted Brokering Safety (114 Calif. L. Rev. (2026)) on SSRN.

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Harlan G. Cohen @harlangcohen.bsky.social · Mar 14

I too would recommend anything written by @chinmayisharma.bsky.social and @thomaskadri.bsky.social!

Lawrence Solum @lsolum.bsky.social · Mar 14

Sharma, Kadri, & Adler on Data Brokers and Safety for Abuse Victims, buff.ly/E4hgZG3 - Chinmayi Sharma (Fordham Law), Thomas Kadri (University of Georgia School of Law), & Sam Adler (Fordham Law) have posted Brokering Safety (114 Calif. L. Rev. (2026)) on SSRN.

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Thomas Kadri @thomaskadri.bsky.social · Mar 11

The article won’t be published until 2026, so there’s plenty of time for us to improve it. Please send feedback — or just come heckle us at the upcoming Freedom of Expression Scholars Conference at @yaleisp.bsky.social or the Privacy Law Scholars Conference at UCLA! 🙏

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Thomas Kadri @thomaskadri.bsky.social · Mar 11

“Brokering Safety” is forthcoming in Calif. L. Rev.! With @chinmayisharma.bsky.social & @samadler.bsky.social, we expose privacy law's complicity in how data brokers worsen stalking & IPV, then pitch a system for victims to obscure data across all brokers in one go. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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Thomas Kadri @thomaskadri.bsky.social · Mar 11

The article is forthcoming in the Harvard Journal of Law & Technology but won't be published for a little while. Comments are most welcome! 🙏

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Thomas Kadri @thomaskadri.bsky.social · Mar 11

Brenda Dvoskin & I just posted “Safe Sex in the Age of Big Tech Feminism.” We interrogate feminist strands animating regulations to keep people—esp. women—safe from the risks of online sexuality, then offer an alternate agenda grounded in queer & crit feminist theory. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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Chinmayi Sharma @chinmayisharma.bsky.social · Feb 20

The article I co-authored with @thomaskadri.bsky.social and @samadler.bsky.social, "Brokering Safety," is forthcoming in the California Law Review! It proposes a system that would enable victims to obscure their info across all data brokers with a single request.

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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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Sam Adler @samadler.bsky.social · Feb 20

The article I co-authored with @thomaskadri.bsky.social and @chinmayisharma.bsky.social , Brokering Safety, is forthcoming in the California Law Review! We look forward to presenting the article at the Consumer Law Scholars Conference and Privacy Law Scholars Conference.

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

papers.ssrn.com

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Dean Rusk International Law Center @deanruskintlaw.bsky.social · Dec 9

University of Georgia School of Law Professor @thomaskadri.bsky.social was selected as a Visiting Fellow at the Law Department of the European University Institute in Florence, Italy.

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Thomas Kadri @thomaskadri.bsky.social · Dec 9

Congratulations! Very excited to read the final version!

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Thomas Kadri @thomaskadri.bsky.social · Apr 10

Finally, one goal of publishing these open-access books for free is to do my small part to make legal education more affordable, accessible & adaptable.

In that spirit, since I don’t have a publisher to amplify this work, please help me spread the word by sharing widely!

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Thomas Kadri @thomaskadri.bsky.social · Apr 10

Please let me know if you have reactions or use the materials in some way. I’m happy to keep you posted about new editions, share more adaptable versions, or just chat about these projects or the issues they raise.

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Thomas Kadri @thomaskadri.bsky.social · Apr 10

And though the primary goal was pedagogical, I’d like to think that engaging with these materials can be generative for scholarship, too. (It certainly has been for me, as the Epilogue on Imagery & Tech included in both books reveals.)

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