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thomaskadri.bsky.social
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
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404media.co
New: Google removed an ICE-spotting app after calling ICE agents a vulnerable group. A immigration support group on the ground in Chicago, the current focus of ICE, said they were using the app to source tips, called Red Dot. Apple removed that app too
www.404media.co/google-calls...
Google Calls ICE Agents a Vulnerable Group, Removes ICE-Spotting App ‘Red Dot’
The move comes as Apple removed ICEBlock after direct pressure from U.S. Department of Justice officials and signals a broader crackdown on ICE-spotting apps.
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October 3, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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dbrody.bsky.social
Unless this is clearly disclosed when you create a Sora account, this is probably a deceptive trade practice in violation of the FTC Act.
junlper.beer onion person @junlper.beer · Oct 2
it’s really good when “technology of the future” treats you leaving as if you were leaving a cult
October 2, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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mchrisriley.com
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And don't miss the closing line of their announcement: "If you would like to bring your memory details over from a different AI tool or export your memory from Claude for backup or migration, you can follow these instructions." (link goes to: support.anthropic.com/en/articles/... )
September 11, 2025 at 9:59 PM
samadler.bsky.social
Excited to share a draft of my Note—AI Procurement as Regulatory Reconnaissance—forthcoming in the Fordham Law Review. Inspired by @cary-coglianese.bsky.social, I contend that federal procurement offers a compelling information-forcing tool to inform AI regulation.

papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
AI Procurement As Regulatory Reconnaissance
Artificial Intelligence ("AI") is a black box technology in a black box industry. Some view AI as a lifechanging technology capable of advancing socie
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August 29, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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chinmayisharma.bsky.social
Thrilled to share that Unbundling AI Openness, my article with @alanrozenshtein.com and Parth Nobel is forthcoming in Wisconsin Law Review! It introduces a framework of "differential openness" to correct the oversimplification of AI as either "open vs. closed."

papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Unbundling AI Openness
<div> The debate over AI openness—whether to make components of an artificial intelligence system available for public inspection and modification—forces polic
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August 29, 2025 at 3:21 PM
samadler.bsky.social
If the future of AI is personal, it should also be portable. Important piece from @mchrisriley.com for @techpolicypress.bsky.social
techpolicypress.bsky.social Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · Aug 18
Chris Riley offers a set of principles for personal AI data transfers, and proposes that technologists begin to immediately develop AI data transfer tools, starting with a concrete and yet valuable data model: generative AI conversation histories.
We Need to Control Personal AI Data So Personal AI Cannot Control Us | TechPolicy.Press
The need for collective work on data models and transfer tools will grow more complex and more important, writes Chris Riley.
www.techpolicy.press
August 18, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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couts.bsky.social
NEW: DOGE affiliate Chris Sweet has developed an AI tool that is being used to rapidly slash government regulations, according to details of a meeting reviewed by @wired.com. Scoop by me: www.wired.com/story/sweetr...
A DOGE AI Tool Called SweetREX Is Coming to Slash US Government Regulation
Named for its developer, an undergrad who took leave from UChicago to become a DOGE affiliate, a new AI tool automates the review of federal regulations and flags rules it thinks can be eliminated.
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August 14, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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paleofuture.bsky.social
I filed a FOIA request with the FTC to get user complaints about ChatGPT.

In one case from Utah, a mother reports her son was experiencing a delusional breakdown and ChatGPT told him to stop taking his medication. The AI bot also told him that his parents were dangerous.
'This Was Trauma by Simulation': ChatGPT Users File Disturbing Mental Health Complaints
Gizmodo obtained consumer complaints to FTC through a FOIA request.
gizmodo.com
August 13, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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fordhamlawnyc.bsky.social
Fordham Law Professor Chinmayi Sharma (‪@chinmayisharma.bsky.social‬) and student Sam Adler '26 (‪@samadler.bsky.social‬) argue data brokers enable violence by selling people's information, and suggest that a data-deletion right should be enabled and enforced. via Lawfare (@lawfaremedia.org)
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.&nbsp;
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August 11, 2025 at 7:43 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
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.
www.lawfaremedia.org
August 8, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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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
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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
samadler.bsky.social
The Agentic Executive has arrived . . .

www.governor.virginia.gov/newsroom/new...
July 13, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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chinmayisharma.bsky.social
23andMe didn’t own your DNA—it was bailed to them. In Bailing Out Biometrics (forthcoming, J. Tort Law), Elijah Gordon & I argue that biometric data deserves bailment protection. Allowing its breach and then selling it in bankruptcy, isn’t just wrong—it’s illegal.

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Bailing Out Biometrics
In 2023, hackers breached 23andMe and extracted the biometric and genealogical data of nearly seven million people. By 2025, that data-originally offered up in
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June 23, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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benwinters.bsky.social
data brokers should not exist and it should be embarrassing every day a lawmaker doesnt try to control or destroy them
June 17, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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techpolicypress.bsky.social
After a recent court order, OpenAI is now required to retain the very data many of its users believed to be most private. This introduces serious privacy risks, especially for vulnerable users like victims and survivors of domestic violence, Belle Torek writes.
For Survivors Using Chatbots, ‘Delete’ Doesn’t Always Mean Deleted | TechPolicy.Press
Many survivors may assume that AI platforms and chatbots offer common privacy protections, but these are not guaranteed, Belle Torek writes.
www.techpolicy.press
June 10, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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lawfaremedia.org
Today's Lawfare Daily is a Fordham Law panel where @qjurecic.bsky.social‬, @josephcox.bsky.social‬, ‪@orlylobel.bsky.social‬, Aziz Huq, and ‪@jtlg.bsky.social‬ discussed the role technology has played a role in supporting or undermining democracy.
June 4, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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themarkup.org
Customs and Border Protection has swabbed the DNA of migrant children as young as 4, whose genetic data is uploaded to an FBI-run database that can track them if they commit crimes in the future.

By ‪@wired.com‬:
The US Is Storing Migrant Children’s DNA in a Criminal Database
Customs and Border Protection has swabbed the DNA of migrant children as young as 4, whose genetic data is uploaded to an FBI-run database that can track them if they commit crimes in the future.
www.wired.com
June 4, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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ssrn.bsky.social
Check out the latest from the SSRN #blog which includes a selection of recent #research on #cybersecurity & data privacy.

Read more: http://spkl.io/63320ffily

#Academicsky #AcademicChatter #dataprivacy
The Latest Research on Cybersecurity & Data Privacy
This list includes a selection of the latest research on cybersecurity & data privacy posted to SSRN in 2025. Understanding the Cyber Risks of Artificial Intelligence: An Ongoing, Comprehensive…
spkl.io
May 29, 2025 at 11:30 AM
samadler.bsky.social
Always recommending @maxisak.bsky.social & Mackenzie Austin’s article on algorithmic speech: www.stanfordlawreview.org/print/articl...
In Lawsuit Over Teen's Death, Judge Rejects Arguments That AI Chatbots Have Free Speech Rights
The judge's order sends a message that Silicon Valley “needs to stop and think and impose guardrails before it launches products to market," said attorney Meetali Jain of the Tech Justice Law Project.
www.law.com
May 26, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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Clearview AI Selling Facial Data to Police Not Protected Speech
Clearview AI’s facial recognition service must face a suit from Californians who allege the company’s database violates their publicity rights and is an invasion of privacy, a state appeals court affi...
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May 23, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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lpeblog.bsky.social
and @chinmayisharma.bsky.social, @thomaskadri.bsky.social, and @samadler.bsky.social; @andrewshammond.bsky.social; @sharonyadin.bsky.social; @ezrarosser.bsky.social; @lauraportuondo.bsky.social; Emily Chertoff and Jessica Bulman-Pozen; Bijal Shah; @desireelc.bsky.social...
May 22, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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lpeblog.bsky.social
With summer just around the corner, are you looking to indulge in some juicy, page-turning scholarship?

Today, the Blog highlights some of the hottest new forthcoming LPE and LPE-adjacent articles. 🔥🔥
Some of the Best New LPE and LPE-Adjacent Scholarship
With summer just around the corner, are you looking to indulge in some juicy, page-turning scholarship? As always, the Blog has you covered with our biannual roundup of some of our favorite…
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May 22, 2025 at 1:47 PM