“These major tech giants will burn everything to the ground as long as they’re making a profit. They’re not interested in anything that’s going to slow them down.” A haunting and beautiful profile of my @cybercivilrights.bsky.social colleague Dr. Hany Farid & his work www.nyti…
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Mary Anne Franks
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Law Professor at George Washington Law. President of the Cyber Civil Rights Initiative. Author of Fearless Speech (2024) and The Cult of the Constitution (2019). First Amendment, civil rights, technology, criminal law, family law, firearms law.
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The World’s Leading Deepfake Expert No Longer Trusts His Own Eyes nytimes.com
Teen Boys Are Using Meta Glasses to Harass and Bully Girls at High Schools and Middle Schools futurism.com
To The Contrary | How AI Chatbots Could Fuel Violence Against Women | Season 35 pbs.org
A man accused of possessing AI-generated CSAM had his charge tossed. Here's why. mashable.com
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Today in unsurprising but depressing news: "every single one of the many smart glasses videos we found were captured by teen boys — and their bad behavior was overwhelmingly directed at girls." futurism.com/artificial-i...
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- Futurism found teen boys wearing Meta's Ray-Ban smart glasses in middle and high schools to covertly film girls, then posting the clips to TikTok and Instagram.
- One prolific poster amassed more than 64,000 combined followers across the two platforms, with dozens of videos of girls asking to be left alone.
- Andy Liddell of the EdTech Law Center told Futurism that 'school is the last place that these glasses belong,' warning state recording laws can carry felony charges.
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I joined @brandeismarshall.bsky.social to talk about the US's failure to regulate AI-facilitated abuse against women for this episode of @pbs.org's To the Contrary: www.pbs.org/video/how-ai...
I talked to @rebeccaruiz.bsky.social about how the 7th Circuit followed clear Supreme Court precedent in holding that there is a First Amendment right to possess virtual CSAM, and how and why this could change mashable.com/tech/ai-gene...
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