Social Media
The Misbegotten War Against Curation
Jane Bambauer Mon, May 8, 2023, 8:16 AM
A wide range of public grievances about curation simply don’t make sense.
Jane Bambauer is a professor of law at the University of Arizona, where she teaches and researches about free speech, privacy and technology policy.
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data privacy
Reinventing Cambridge Analytica One Good Intention at a Time
Jane Bambauer Wed, Jun 8, 2022, 8:01 AM
Europe’s new Digital Markets Act is in tension with the General Data Protection Regulation, and the practical impact may be bad for privacy and competition.
Tort Liability
Reckless Associations: A New Tort for a New Information Ecosystem
Jane Bambauer Tue, Mar 15, 2022, 11:47 AM
Courts should craft a narrow form of tort liability that would apply to leaders of online radicalized networks when their persistent communications cause a member of the group to commit an act of violence.
Aegis
Facial Recognition as a Less-Bad Option
Jane Bambauer Thu, Nov 4, 2021, 3:30 PM
The perils that flow from facial recognition can be mitigated through sensible limits without banning the technology and the risks of facial recognition are less bad than the options police have without its use.
Digital Social Contract
COVID-19 Apps Are Terrible—They Didn't Have to Be
Jane Bambauer, Brian Ray Mon, Dec 21, 2020, 8:01 AM
COVID-19 apps in the United States have been ineffective as public health tools because they are designed primarily to protect privacy. Poor design choices, effectively mandated by Google and Apple, were driven by ongoing consumer privacy and national security debates that shortsightedly rejected tracking technologies.