Ignacio Cofone
@ignaciocofone.bsky.social
Prof of Law & Regulation of AI at @oxfordlawfac.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk. Fellow @reubencollege.bsky.social. Book: "The Privacy Fallacy" (2023). Likes tech, dogs, and sustainable industrial policy
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Ignacio Cofone
@ignaciocofone.bsky.social
· Oct 10
Taxonomizing Synthetic Data for Law
Synthetic data is increasingly important in data usage and AI design, creating novel legal and policy dilemmas. All too often, discussions of synthetic data tre
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Happy to share our new piece with Katherine Strandburg & Nicholas Tilmes, “Taxonomizing Synthetic Data for Law.” It engages Gal & Lynskey’s excellent article & centers the role of ground-truth assumptions. The key q is how creation methods encode claims about the world ssrn.com/abstract=555...
Norway’s Court of Appeal just upheld the historic fine against Grindr for (unlawful) sharing its users data with third parties. It’s an important step in considering inferences personal data (app-level identifiers as processing that reveals sexual orientation) www.datatilsynet.no/contentasset...
www.datatilsynet.no
October 24, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Norway’s Court of Appeal just upheld the historic fine against Grindr for (unlawful) sharing its users data with third parties. It’s an important step in considering inferences personal data (app-level identifiers as processing that reveals sexual orientation) www.datatilsynet.no/contentasset...
Happy to share our new piece with Katherine Strandburg & Nicholas Tilmes, “Taxonomizing Synthetic Data for Law.” It engages Gal & Lynskey’s excellent article & centers the role of ground-truth assumptions. The key q is how creation methods encode claims about the world ssrn.com/abstract=555...
Taxonomizing Synthetic Data for Law
Synthetic data is increasingly important in data usage and AI design, creating novel legal and policy dilemmas. All too often, discussions of synthetic data tre
papers.ssrn.com
October 10, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Happy to share our new piece with Katherine Strandburg & Nicholas Tilmes, “Taxonomizing Synthetic Data for Law.” It engages Gal & Lynskey’s excellent article & centers the role of ground-truth assumptions. The key q is how creation methods encode claims about the world ssrn.com/abstract=555...
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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!
We're excited to share the current version more broadly!
September 2, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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!
We're excited to share the current version more broadly!
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Always read @ignaciocofone.bsky.social, including accidental legal history.
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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September 11, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Always read @ignaciocofone.bsky.social, including accidental legal history.
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
academic.oup.com
September 11, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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...
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...
September 8, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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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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...
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
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August 28, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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...
www.stanfordlawreview.org/online/prote...
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.
August 28, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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.
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...
August 21, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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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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.....
August 17, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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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🎉 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
He joins a community of over 1,800 scholars who share a commitment to advancing the humanities and social sciences.
👇 shorturl.at/3Bkyg
July 21, 2025 at 10:13 AM
🎉 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
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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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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July 19, 2025 at 9:09 PM
I often think of this intentional stylistic choice as the opposite of Madeleine Elish’s “moral crumple zone” papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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.
July 18, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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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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...
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...
July 3, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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...
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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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....
Read the draft here (and later finalized in UC Law Journal): papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
June 25, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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....
Read the draft here (and later finalized in UC Law Journal): papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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What an amazing resource by @daniel-solove.bsky.social. A history of privacy books.
Makes a perfect summer reading list.
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Makes a perfect summer reading list.
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
<span>Notable Privacy Books: A Journey Through History</span>
<p><span>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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June 12, 2025 at 1:22 PM
What an amazing resource by @daniel-solove.bsky.social. A history of privacy books.
Makes a perfect summer reading list.
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Makes a perfect summer reading list.
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Helpful article for this, @thomaskadri.bsky.social's Platforms as Blackacres www.uclalawreview.org/platforms-as...
June 5, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Helpful article for this, @thomaskadri.bsky.social's Platforms as Blackacres www.uclalawreview.org/platforms-as...
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In this essay, @daniel-solove.bsky.social discusses 400+ privacy books over the past 70+ years papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
June 2, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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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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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May 21, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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)
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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...
🤖 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...
May 23, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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...
🤖 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...
Thank you!!
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)
Full review: bookwyrm.social/user/bwaber/... (5/5)
The Privacy Fallacy
Cambridge Core - Law and technology, science, communication - The Privacy Fallacy
www.cambridge.org
May 24, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Thank you!!
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
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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May 21, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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
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
www.politico.com
April 18, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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/...
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Earlier this year, the Balkinization blog held a symposium on @ignaciocofone.bsky.social's book “The Privacy Fallacy: Harm and Power in the Information Economy.” In response to the comments, Ignacio, one of our Advisory Board members, authored a two-part piece on the Balkinization site.
Balkinization
A group blog on constitutional law, theory, and politics
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April 10, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Earlier this year, the Balkinization blog held a symposium on @ignaciocofone.bsky.social's book “The Privacy Fallacy: Harm and Power in the Information Economy.” In response to the comments, Ignacio, one of our Advisory Board members, authored a two-part piece on the Balkinization site.
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"UK creating ‘murder prediction’ tool to identify people most likely to kill" www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025... - as Yuki Matsumi and I argue in our article The Prediction Society, such tools are deeply problematic ssrn.com/abstract=445...
UK creating ‘murder prediction’ tool to identify people most likely to kill
Exclusive: Algorithms allegedly being used to study data of thousands of people, in project critics say is ‘chilling and dystopian’
www.theguardian.com
April 9, 2025 at 7:25 PM
"UK creating ‘murder prediction’ tool to identify people most likely to kill" www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025... - as Yuki Matsumi and I argue in our article The Prediction Society, such tools are deeply problematic ssrn.com/abstract=445...