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Recently, Google, Apple, and Meta have condemned the EU’s regulation of Big Tech. The EU’s major competition regulation for online platforms, the Digital Markets Act (“DMA”), went into effect in March 2024. Critics, including President Donald Trump and various U.S. tech giants, claim the DMA harms consumers and functions as a form of economic protectionism […]

“All warfare is based on deception.” Although it has been thousands of years since Sun Tzu wrote this line in The Art of War, deception still plays a role in modern warfare. In the digital age today, deception largely involves information warfare. Yet the law of war, also known as international humanitarian law (IHL), has […]

Rule 901 of the Federal Rules of Evidence concerns the authentication of evidence in federal courtrooms, defining what is sufficient for determining that a piece of evidence is what the proponent claims it to be. In April 2024, the Advisory Committee on Evidence Rules considered amendments to Rule 901 that would address potentially AI-generated evidence. […]

The prevalence of unauthorized deepfakes is an urgent issue, especially in the lead-up to and the aftermath of the 2024 election. In addition to celebrities being falsely represented in a campaign ad and by an AI voice assistant, sexually explicit deepfakes are victimizing girls across the country through the use of “nudification” apps. A recent […]

The media landscape in the U.S. is in a state of major flux. In July 2023, for the first time ever, cable and broadcast television (TV) viewership dropped to under 50% of total TV usage. Meanwhile, streaming services continued their upward surge, securing a record 38.7% of total TV consumption. The growth of streaming has […]

Ahead of the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, the French government approved Article 7, which enables the use of experimental artificial intelligence (AI) surveillance technology for the event. This act highlights some of the biggest challenges AI triggers for privacy, speech, and public safety advocates. Given how well-documented discriminatory consequences of predictive surveillance technology are, […]

On February 23, 2024, a federal district judge in Texas issued a temporary restraining order (TRO) against the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), preventing it from enforcing an emergency information collection survey issued against the Texas Blockchain Council. The survey was requested by the DOE’s Energy Information Administration (EIA), which collects and analyzes data about […]

In Missouri, sports betting is illegal. Yet if a person were to enter its bordering states of Iowa, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, and Kansas, they would have access to unfettered sports betting at their fingertips. This lack of uniformity creates situations in which individuals in one state are subject to a completely different set of […]

This April, Congress passed the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act (“PAFACA”), which is designed “to protect the national security interests of the United States from the threat posed by foreign adversary-controlled applications.” The Act targets TikTok, a popular social media platform owned by Chinese company ByteDance Ltd., by requiring either its divestiture […]

In recent months, the National Collegiate Athletics Association (“NCAA”) has taken steps to regulate the disclosure and transparency of data related to “name, image, and likeness” (“NIL”) deals. NIL transparency promises to equip student-athletes with the information they need to optimize their NIL earnings and get fair deals. However, it can also raise privacy concerns […]