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Thomas Kadri
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Assistant Prof at the University of Georgia School of Law • Working on digital speech, privacy & abuse • Legislative & Policy Director at the Clinic to End Tech Abuse at Cornell
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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…
October 31, 2025 at 2:39 PM
thomaskadri.bsky.social
Can't wait to dive into this! Nothing like some smart obscurity takes to start the week.
September 8, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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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...
September 8, 2025 at 1:05 PM
thomaskadri.bsky.social
Thanks to @lsolum.bsky.social for the generous recommendation of my forthcoming piece with @sonjawest.bsky.social!
September 6, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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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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August 18, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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samadler.bsky.social
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
lawfaremedia.org 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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August 8, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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chinmayisharma.bsky.social
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.
lawfaremedia.org 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
August 8, 2025 at 4:30 PM
thomaskadri.bsky.social
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!
lawfaremedia.org 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
August 8, 2025 at 3:32 PM
thomaskadri.bsky.social
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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August 5, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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@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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July 2, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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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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April 18, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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samadler.bsky.social
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.
2:26 Thomas Kadri (External) That l've co-authored with Chinmay Sharma. Thomas Kadri (External) And Sam Adler called brokering safety explores how data brokers
April 10, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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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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March 14, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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I too would recommend anything written by @chinmayisharma.bsky.social and @thomaskadri.bsky.social!
lsolum.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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March 14, 2025 at 11:39 AM
thomaskadri.bsky.social
“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....
March 11, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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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....
March 11, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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chinmayisharma.bsky.social
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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February 20, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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samadler.bsky.social
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
February 20, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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deanruskintlaw.bsky.social
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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December 9, 2024 at 1:37 PM
thomaskadri.bsky.social
Delighted to release two new books into the world!

*Dilemmas in Digital Abuse* & *Cybercrime Scenarios* feature lots of “dilemmas” & “scenarios” exploring law/tech issues.

Download for free on my website, where you’ll also find links for ~$14 paperbacks: thomaskadri.com/research/sch...
April 10, 2024 at 8:32 PM