PRG News Roundup, February 9, 2022
During the third PRG meeting of the Spring 2022 semester, the following topic were discussed. This week, the Algorithmic Accountability Act of 2022 has been introduced. It’s a bill requiring…
Information Law, Policy and Digital Privacy
During the third PRG meeting of the Spring 2022 semester, the following topic were discussed. This week, the Algorithmic Accountability Act of 2022 has been introduced. It’s a bill requiring…
During the second PRG meeting of the Spring 2022 semester, the following topics were discussed. In Germany, Twitter is challenging a provision in an anti-hate speech regulation. The regulation mandates…
Welcome to the Spring 2022 from the Privacy Research Group student fellows! The first PRG meeting was January 26 and we covered the following news items: On the legal front,…
The Privacy Law Scholars Conference is inviting submission of abstracts for its 15th annual conference (PLSC 2022), which will be held in person on Thursday and Friday, June 2 and…
The Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University filed an amicus brief in a case challenging a Florida law limiting the power of social media companies to moderate speech on…
A bipartisan group of House lawmakers has introduced the filter bubble Transparency Act which requires companies like Meta (then known as ‘Facebook’) and YouTube to offer a version of their platforms that…
Upcoming Events Guarini Colloquium: Regulating Global Digital Corporations – Monday November 8, 2021, 17:20 – 18:20. In this NYU Law School colloquium, Hong Shen, the author of Alibaba: Infrastructuring Global…
Donald Trump’s new social network, Truth Social, has been reported to be a thinly disguised variant of the Mastodon social network codebase. Mastodon is free software that anyone can use…
The Guarini Center will host a colloquium on the global data economy. They will seek legal solutions to deal with data as a new type of asset in order to…
The Brazilian National Data Protection Authority (ANPD) and the Spanish Data Protection Agency (AEPD) – the administrative authorities responsible for data protection in Brazil and Spain, respectively – signed a…