This page includes links to my academic publications, public writing, as well as creative writing (mostly humor). The list is, like most of this website, probably out of date by the time you read this, unless you have access to a time machine.
Academic Publications
This list may be out of date. For more recent publications, please see my SSRN page: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=2453722
- Algorithmic Destruction, SMU Law Review, 2022
- SSRN: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4066845
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- Privacy as/and Civil Rights, Berkeley Technology Law Journal (2022)
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- Post-Pandemic Privacy Law, American University Law Review, 70 Am. U. L. Rev. 1681 (2021).
- Building robust and ethical vaccination verification systems, (Brookings Institution) (with Baobao Zhang, Laurin Weissinger, Johannes Himmelreich, Sarah Kreps, Miles McCain, Nina McMurry, Naomi Scheinerman)
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- Privacy in Pandemic: Law, Technology, and Public Health in the COVID-19 Crisis, Loyola University Chicago Law Journal, Volume 52, Issue 3 (2021)
- 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).
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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).
- Unfolding the Screen of Chinese Privacy Law, Journal of Law, Information, and Science (Forthcoming) (with Jill Bronfman and Zhou Zhou).
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Public Scholarship
For more from my MSNBC column, check out this link: https://www.msnbc.com/author/tiffany-c-li-ncpn1243081
- 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,’Â 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).
- 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.
- Top 15 most popular articles of 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.
- Top 10 most popular articles of 2020!