Ari Ezra Waldman
@ariezra.bsky.social
Law professor at UC Irvine, studying law, technology, society, and queer civil rights. 🏳️🌈
Dad to Peabody.
Dad to Peabody.
Honored to have the opportunity to join my brilliant coauthor @daniellecitron.bsky.social on the @techpolicypress.bsky.social podcast to talk about trust and safety and legal endogeneity. Thanks @dwj88.bsky.social !
A podcast in which @daniellecitron.bsky.social, @ariezra.bsky.social, @jeffallen.bsky.social and I discuss the state of online trust and safety. For @techpolicypress.bsky.social
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Considering Trust and Safety's Past, Present, and Future | TechPolicy.Press
Dean Jackson discusses the field's future with law professors Danielle Keats Citron and Ari Ezra Waldman and Jeff Allen from the Integrity Institute.
www.techpolicy.press
December 1, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Honored to have the opportunity to join my brilliant coauthor @daniellecitron.bsky.social on the @techpolicypress.bsky.social podcast to talk about trust and safety and legal endogeneity. Thanks @dwj88.bsky.social !
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Illustrating selective privacy and connection to digital enthnonationalism from Wired www.wired.com/story/the-vi...
The Viral ‘DoorDash Girl’ Saga Unearthed a Nightmare for Black Creators
A delivery driver posted a TikTok alleging she had been sexually assaulted by a customer. The deepfakes that followed reveal a growing digital blackface problem.
www.wired.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Illustrating selective privacy and connection to digital enthnonationalism from Wired www.wired.com/story/the-vi...
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really good book "industry unbound" by @ariezra.bsky.social on how tech is used as a cudgel to ablate consent and disenfranchise privacy experts
November 21, 2025 at 7:36 PM
really good book "industry unbound" by @ariezra.bsky.social on how tech is used as a cudgel to ablate consent and disenfranchise privacy experts
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virginialawreview.org/articles/ret... our latest is out! @ariezra.bsky.social and I on “Rethinking Youth Privacy”
Rethinking Youth Privacy - Virginia Law Review
Congress and state legislatures are showing renewed interest in youth privacy, proposing myriad new laws to address data extraction, addiction, manipulation, and more. Almost all of their proposals, a...
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November 21, 2025 at 1:07 AM
virginialawreview.org/articles/ret... our latest is out! @ariezra.bsky.social and I on “Rethinking Youth Privacy”
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Call me crazy but I really do think if you've been face swapped into nonconsensual porn because you, a woman, dared to have a photo online, you should be able to sue everyone involved into oblivion
This is so disgusting people should not have to be afraid of putting their pictures online lest some creep turn them into fap material.
'AI girls never say no' is...quite a thing.
'AI girls never say no' is...quite a thing.
Massive Leak Shows Erotic Chatbot Users Turned Women’s Yearbook Pictures Into AI Porn
Chatbot roleplay and image generator platform SecretDesires.ai left cloud storage containers of nearly two million of images and videos exposed, including photos and full names of women from social me...
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November 19, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Call me crazy but I really do think if you've been face swapped into nonconsensual porn because you, a woman, dared to have a photo online, you should be able to sue everyone involved into oblivion
We are so pleased to share the Call for Submissions for the 2026 Privacy Law Scholars Conference. We are introducing so many new elements this year, including a mentorship-focused pre-conference and discussion sessions in addition to our paper workshop sessions.
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PLSC 2026 CFP
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Privacy Law Scholars Conference 2026 www.privacyscholars.org The Program & Planning Committee of the Privacy Law Scholars Conference invites submissions for the 19th annual con...
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November 14, 2025 at 8:14 PM
We are so pleased to share the Call for Submissions for the 2026 Privacy Law Scholars Conference. We are introducing so many new elements this year, including a mentorship-focused pre-conference and discussion sessions in addition to our paper workshop sessions.
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
More hope scrolling today. … I’m launching a new tech center at @ucirvinelaw.bsky.social ! So many new opportunities for students and faculty, including fellowships, endowed lectures, paper awards, policymaking advising. Grateful to our dean, Austen Parrish, and the affiliated faculty!
UC Irvine School of Law launched the new Center for Technology & Justice, a collaborative research-based institute directed by Prof. @ariezra.bsky.social studying how technology can change law and society and how law and society can change technology.
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November 5, 2025 at 5:30 PM
More hope scrolling today. … I’m launching a new tech center at @ucirvinelaw.bsky.social ! So many new opportunities for students and faculty, including fellowships, endowed lectures, paper awards, policymaking advising. Grateful to our dean, Austen Parrish, and the affiliated faculty!
This was always where the troop deployments were going. Their plan was always to occupy cities with Democratic majorities to scare ppl away from voting. This is ONE TOOL they’re using to stay in power.
"Monitor" my ass. If I were Gavin's team I'd fully request UN election monitors to counterbalance the federal election intimidators
Breaking: The Department of Justice announced it will "monitor polling sites in six jurisdictions [in New Jersey and California] ahead of the upcoming November 4, 2025, general election to ensure transparency, ballot security, and compliance with federal law." www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justi...
October 24, 2025 at 4:36 PM
This was always where the troop deployments were going. Their plan was always to occupy cities with Democratic majorities to scare ppl away from voting. This is ONE TOOL they’re using to stay in power.
Kavanaugh Stops
“The Govt sometimes makes brief, investigative stops to the check the immigration status of those who gather in locations where ppl are hired for day jobs; who work or appear to work in jobs such as landscaping, construction, agriculture, or car washes…” -Justice Kavanaugh
"Rodrick Johnson, 67, is one of many residents who were detained by federal agents during the South Shore raid. A U.S. citizen, he said agents broke through his door and dragged him out in zip ties."
October 2, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Kavanaugh Stops
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New research from @daniellecitron.bsky.social @ariezra.bsky.social examines growing concerns around content moderators — people tasked with keeping social media free of explicit content. Their upcoming paper adds to mounting warnings about this challenging job www.techpolicy.press/is-trust-saf...
Is Trust & Safety Dead, or Just Evolving? | TechPolicy.Press
Tech Policy Press contributing editor Dean Jackson considers the conclusions of a new paper by Danielle Keats Citron and Ari Ezra Waldman.
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September 29, 2025 at 1:36 PM
New research from @daniellecitron.bsky.social @ariezra.bsky.social examines growing concerns around content moderators — people tasked with keeping social media free of explicit content. Their upcoming paper adds to mounting warnings about this challenging job www.techpolicy.press/is-trust-saf...
So honored to be recognized by the @williamsinstitute.bsky.social and alongside @nbenas.bsky.social @margotpollans.bsky.social @ddangaran.bsky.social @darapurvis.bsky.social. Their scholarship is outstanding!
Congratulations to Prof. @ariezra.bsky.social who has been awarded the 2025 Dukeminier Awards’ Ezekiel Webber Prize by the Williams Institute at UCLA School of Law for his article, “Gender Data in the Automated Administrative State,” 123 Colum. L. Rev. 2249 (2023). news.law.uci.edu/2025/09/02/p...
September 3, 2025 at 2:02 AM
So honored to be recognized by the @williamsinstitute.bsky.social and alongside @nbenas.bsky.social @margotpollans.bsky.social @ddangaran.bsky.social @darapurvis.bsky.social. Their scholarship is outstanding!
Such a joy to collaborate with @daniellecitron.bsky.social on our third (!!!) piece together, this time bringing our perspectives to trust and safety. Danielle has been in the trenches since the beginning. I couldn’t have written this without her!
Excited to share a piece @ariezra.bsky.social and I have written “The Evolution of Trust and Safety” papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
The Evolution of Trust and Safety
<p><span>This Article tells the inside story of the rise, spread, and evolution of trust and safety. We bring unique perspectives to this story. One of us (Citr
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August 22, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Such a joy to collaborate with @daniellecitron.bsky.social on our third (!!!) piece together, this time bringing our perspectives to trust and safety. Danielle has been in the trenches since the beginning. I couldn’t have written this without her!
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RFK Jr. has fired all members of the Preventive Services Task Force, which requires insurance companies to cover certain treatments. The Supreme Court ruled he could do so in June.
Likely next step: Appointing quacks who will end mandatory insurance coverage for PrEP.
www.wsj.com/health/healt...
Likely next step: Appointing quacks who will end mandatory insurance coverage for PrEP.
www.wsj.com/health/healt...
Exclusive | RFK Jr. to Oust Advisory Panel on Cancer Screenings, HIV Prevention Drugs
The task force determines which preventive services insurers must cover at no cost to patients.
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July 26, 2025 at 12:43 PM
RFK Jr. has fired all members of the Preventive Services Task Force, which requires insurance companies to cover certain treatments. The Supreme Court ruled he could do so in June.
Likely next step: Appointing quacks who will end mandatory insurance coverage for PrEP.
www.wsj.com/health/healt...
Likely next step: Appointing quacks who will end mandatory insurance coverage for PrEP.
www.wsj.com/health/healt...
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"The book about Gamergate we have been waiting for."
@lareviewofbooks.bsky.social includes "Gaming Democracy: How Silicon Valley Leveled Up the Far Right" by @adriennemassanari.bsky.social in a round-up of new scholarship about the alt-right:
@lareviewofbooks.bsky.social includes "Gaming Democracy: How Silicon Valley Leveled Up the Far Right" by @adriennemassanari.bsky.social in a round-up of new scholarship about the alt-right:
Reactionary Futurism 2025 | Los Angeles Review of Books
Jordan S. Carroll reviews recent scholarship on the alt-right.
lareviewofbooks.org
July 23, 2025 at 8:40 PM
"The book about Gamergate we have been waiting for."
@lareviewofbooks.bsky.social includes "Gaming Democracy: How Silicon Valley Leveled Up the Far Right" by @adriennemassanari.bsky.social in a round-up of new scholarship about the alt-right:
@lareviewofbooks.bsky.social includes "Gaming Democracy: How Silicon Valley Leveled Up the Far Right" by @adriennemassanari.bsky.social in a round-up of new scholarship about the alt-right:
Yeah, let’s run an experiment that re-traumatizes children to make an AI that won’t ever be able to detect trauma in children. If that’s not the AI industry’s motto, I don’t know what is??
Also, how does something like this even pass IRB?
Also, how does something like this even pass IRB?
“The interdisciplinary team built the model after recording 18 sessions with children as they shared traumatic experiences.”
USF researchers develop AI that detects PTSD in children’s facial expressions
The tool can help overcome barriers to diagnosis, like cognitive development, language skills, avoidance behaviors and emotional suppression.
www.tampabay.com
July 13, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Yeah, let’s run an experiment that re-traumatizes children to make an AI that won’t ever be able to detect trauma in children. If that’s not the AI industry’s motto, I don’t know what is??
Also, how does something like this even pass IRB?
Also, how does something like this even pass IRB?
The line from Skrmetti to this sham of a workshop” on gender affirming care is the demand for perfection (which doesn’t exist in science) for trans care studies while applying zero standards to anti-trans “studies”. They also literally weaponize a trans kid’s death to stoke anti-trans hate.
Hi all—I'll be periodically live-posting today's FTC event on GAC's supposed "deceptive trade practices."
Trump's anti-trans agenda is getting creative—cracking down on (or at least intimidating) GAC providers w/ misapplied consumer protection laws. The event will be...interesting.
[A THREAD 🏳️⚧️🧵]
Trump's anti-trans agenda is getting creative—cracking down on (or at least intimidating) GAC providers w/ misapplied consumer protection laws. The event will be...interesting.
[A THREAD 🏳️⚧️🧵]
July 9, 2025 at 5:34 PM
The line from Skrmetti to this sham of a workshop” on gender affirming care is the demand for perfection (which doesn’t exist in science) for trans care studies while applying zero standards to anti-trans “studies”. They also literally weaponize a trans kid’s death to stoke anti-trans hate.
For the right wing judiciary, “[t]he only logical consistency that matters is that the trans person loses.” @joshablock.bsky.social is exactly right.
1. Shockingly bad decision out from the Eleventh Circuit today saying that a transgender woman has no 1A right as a public school teacher to identify herself as "Ms." or use she/her pronouns.
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July 2, 2025 at 2:31 PM
For the right wing judiciary, “[t]he only logical consistency that matters is that the trans person loses.” @joshablock.bsky.social is exactly right.
This new book on the theory and method of law and technology by the brilliant @rcalo.bsky.social is so important! Congrats Ryan!
I am so damn excited to share my new book, Law and Technology: A Methodical Approach. Full of stories and priced at $40, this book explains why law finds technology so difficult to regulate, and what to do about it. global.oup.com/academic/pro...
July 2, 2025 at 1:17 PM
This new book on the theory and method of law and technology by the brilliant @rcalo.bsky.social is so important! Congrats Ryan!
New Article! I interviewed those involved in drafting ADPPA, the American Data Privacy & Protection Act, & reviewed primary sources. I tell the story of how law, legal processes, and influences on civil society skewed ADPPA in industry-friendly ways.
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June 30, 2025 at 4:58 PM
New Article! I interviewed those involved in drafting ADPPA, the American Data Privacy & Protection Act, & reviewed primary sources. I tell the story of how law, legal processes, and influences on civil society skewed ADPPA in industry-friendly ways.
scholarlycommons.law.emory.edu/cgi/viewcont...
scholarlycommons.law.emory.edu/cgi/viewcont...
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The fight building and dismantling state capacity is a fight over democratic freedom and equality.
My latest paper on the kind of state emerging from this moment - and a vision for freedom and governance that should shape an alternative progressive state to come
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
My latest paper on the kind of state emerging from this moment - and a vision for freedom and governance that should shape an alternative progressive state to come
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
June 29, 2025 at 12:16 PM
The fight building and dismantling state capacity is a fight over democratic freedom and equality.
My latest paper on the kind of state emerging from this moment - and a vision for freedom and governance that should shape an alternative progressive state to come
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
My latest paper on the kind of state emerging from this moment - and a vision for freedom and governance that should shape an alternative progressive state to come
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
With the obvi caveat that class actions are not always practical, have been restricted, and will inevitable leave ppl out, everyone should do this immediately. Luckily, smart lawyers knew what was coming and were ready. This is how it’s done.
Wow was that fast--an immigrant advocate group already filed an amended complaint seeking class action relief in its birthright citizenship case in federal court in Maryland
June 27, 2025 at 4:29 PM
With the obvi caveat that class actions are not always practical, have been restricted, and will inevitable leave ppl out, everyone should do this immediately. Luckily, smart lawyers knew what was coming and were ready. This is how it’s done.
The Trump FTC will use consumer protection law to ban gender affirming care. Speakers at this event include Miriam Grossman, who argues that ppl say they’re trans bc it’s cool, and Michael Laidlaw, who’s only job seems to be to lie when testifying against trans people.
www.ftc.gov/news-events/...
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The Dangers of “Gender-Affirming Care” for Minors
This workshop will focus on unfair or deceptive trade practices in “gender-affirming care” for minors.
www.ftc.gov
June 25, 2025 at 6:25 PM
The Trump FTC will use consumer protection law to ban gender affirming care. Speakers at this event include Miriam Grossman, who argues that ppl say they’re trans bc it’s cool, and Michael Laidlaw, who’s only job seems to be to lie when testifying against trans people.
www.ftc.gov/news-events/...
www.ftc.gov/news-events/...
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Yesterday's Skrmetti decision reminds me of @ariezra.bsky.social: "in fact-intensive constitutional cases, opportunistic judges manufacture factual uncertainty when there is none by reframing doctrines of constitutional scrutiny as demands for scientific infallibility."
#SCOTUS #LawSky
#SCOTUS #LawSky
June 19, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Yesterday's Skrmetti decision reminds me of @ariezra.bsky.social: "in fact-intensive constitutional cases, opportunistic judges manufacture factual uncertainty when there is none by reframing doctrines of constitutional scrutiny as demands for scientific infallibility."
#SCOTUS #LawSky
#SCOTUS #LawSky