Writing

Academic Publications

• Algorithmic Shadow Harms (in progress)
• Privacy as/and Civil Rights, Berkeley Technology Law Journal (2022 Forthcoming)
  • Read DRAFT: SSRN
• Post-Pandemic Privacy Law, American University Law Review, 70 Am. U. L. Rev. 1681 (2021).
  • Read: SSRN
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• Building robust and ethical vaccination verification systems, (Brookings Institution) (with Baobao Zhang, Laurin Weissinger, Johannes Himmelreich, Sarah Kreps, Miles McCain, Nina McMurry, Naomi Scheinerman)
  • Read: SSRN
• Privacy in Pandemic: Law, Technology, and Public Health in the COVID-19 Crisis, Loyola University Chicago Law Journal, Volume 52, Issue 3 (2021)
  • Read: SSRN
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• Intermediaries and Private Speech Regulation: A Transatlantic Dialogue, Yale Information Society Project Workshop Report (2019).
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• Beyond Intermediary Liability: The Future of Information Platforms, Yale Information Society Project Workshop Report (2018).
  • Read: Press Release and Direct Link
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• A 😉 at the Past and Future of English, 21 Greenbag 2D 335 (2018)
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• Humans Forget, Machines Remember: Artificial Intelligence and the Right to be Forgotten, 34 Computer Security & Law Review 2 (2018) (with Eduard Fosch Villaronga and Peter Keieseberg).
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  • Read: SSRN
• Unfolding the Screen of Chinese Privacy Law, Journal of Law, Information, and Science (Forthcoming) (with Jill Bronfman and Zhou Zhou).
  • Read: SSRN

Public Scholarship

• Apple halting product sales in Russia after it invades Ukraine may have a downside, MSNBC
• Microsoft’s Activision Blizzard deal is bad for privacy rights, MSNBC
• Facebook’s ‘metaverse’ evolution is very scary, MSNBC
• Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp are back up. But their outage is an opportunity, MSNBC
• Facebook’s failed ‘Instagram Kids’ is much bigger than one platform, MSNBC
• How Facebook, Amazon and Google abused the Patriot Act after 9/11, MSNBC
• Apple’s CSAM prevention features are a privacy disaster in the making, MSNBC
• Facebook’s FTC court victory saves Instagram — but not Big Tech, MSNBC
• Why Florida’s new social media law is probably unconstitutional, MSNBC (May 26, 2021)
• Facebook’s Trump ban stands, but Oversight Board decision opens door to return, MSNBC (May 5, 2021)
• The risks of Covid ‘vaccine passports’ are scarier than you might think, MSNBC (April 23, 2021)
• Bitcoin, NFTs and other crypto fads are destroying our planet, MSNBC (March 15, 2021)
• Facebook and Google can survive Australia’s new content law. Can you?, MSNBC (February 18, 2021)
• The GameStop-Reddit battle exposed hard truths about our financial system, MSNBC (February 3, 2021)
• Trump’s Twitter reign of terror is over. But his impact on social media isn’t, MSNBC (January 8, 2021)
• Tech is saving the Covid holiday season even as it eats away at our privacy, MSNBC (November 25, 2020)
• Twitter and Facebook’s election disinformation efforts may be too little, too late, MSNBC (November 11, 2020)
• Even the best contact tracing app needs a national Covid plan to work, MSNBC (October 22, 2020).
• Give All My Data to Google and the CDC, Slate, April 6, 2020
• America has an election access problem — tech can’t solve it, The Hill, March 15, 2020
• FaceApp Makes Today’s Privacy Laws Look Antiquated, The Atlantic, July 20, 2019
• Facebook created our culture of echo chambers—and it killed the one thing that could fix it, Quartz, June 20, 2019.
• Kim Kardashian vs. Deepfakes, Slate, June 18, 2019.
• China’s influence on digital privacy could be global, Washington Post, August 8, 2018.
• All secrets are revealed in DNA testing. Still want to do it?, Houston Chronicle, August 7, 2018 (with Mason Marks).
• DNA Donors Must Demand Stronger Privacy Protection, Harvard Law Bill of Health, June 14, 2018 (with Mason Marks).
• DNA donors must demand stronger protection for genetic privacy, STAT News, May 30, 2018 (with Mason Marks).
• The net neutrality vote was about the future of American democracy and the fate of ‘fake news,’ NBC News, May 16, 2018.
• Tips for Privacy Pros after the Cambridge Analytica revelations, The Privacy Advisor, April 3, 2018.
• After the Cambridge Analytica Facebook scandal, here’s what Mark Zuckerberg must do to save his company, NBC News, March 30, 2018.
• Who Is to Blame for the Cambridge Analytica–Facebook Scandal? Slate Magazine, March 19, 2018.
• That Netflix Tweet Wasn’t Creepy. Reality Is, Washington Post, December 14, 2017.
• Face 2.0: 8 Simple Rules for Surviving China’s New Rating System, Digital Asia Hub, February 22, 2017 (with Jill Bronfman).
• SSRN and open access for non-institutional scholars, Citizen Technologist, UC Berkeley Center for Technology, Society and Policy, August 2016.
• Pokémon Go and The Law: Privacy, Intellectual Property, and Other Legal Concerns, Freedom to Tinker, Princeton Center for Information Technology Policy, July 2016.
• How Wikimedia crowdsourced its privacy program, The Privacy Advisor, International Association of Privacy Professionals, April 2016.
• Chinese Privacy Law: A Practitioner’s Guide to Current Regulations, Future Trends & Business Applications, SSRN, January 13, 2016 (with Zhou Zhou).
• What’s Chinese Privacy Law and Why Should You Care?, The Privacy Advisor, 2015-2016 (with Zhou Zhou).
  • Part 1, January 28, 2015
  • Part 2, September 21, 2015
  • Part 3, January 25, 2016
• Review of Asian Data Privacy Laws: Trade and Human Rights Perspectives by Graham Green, Georgetown Journal of International Law – The Summit, September 2015.

Creative Writing

• Advice to Wordle, From Sudoku, The Belladonna, February 2, 2022.
• Two Years of This Pandemic Is Long Enough; It’s Time to Enter the Metaverse, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, January 18, 2022.
• A Note From Your University About Its Plans for Next Semester, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, May 21, 2020.