Daniel Solove

Daniel Solove

@daniel-solove.bsky.social

I'm a law professor at GW Law School and an expert on privacy, AI, technology, and data security law. I also write about law, literature, and the humanities. More about me at https://danielsolove.com

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Daniel Solove
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This article on the farm-raised fish industry captures the story of the modern post-industrial world in a microcosm — measures to help solve problems make them worse, exploited labor, dangerous risks, lies, lack of regulation, evasion of strong regulatory regimes, and inadequate safety inspection.

nytimes.comThe Dirty Secret Behind the Farmed Fish You Eat (Gift Article)Forced labor, rancid waste, harmful chemicals. What to know about the seafood that could end up on your plate.
Daniel Solove
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Unfortunately the tech company ethos has developed into a model of move fast and create bad risks then hope for regulators to do wrist slaps or courts to find ways to dismiss cases. Maybe finally this strategy will start to fail.

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Tim Bernard and Justin Hendrix break down 13 new complaints against OpenAI: eight from state attorneys general and five from private plaintiffs, including a proposed class action over children’s data.

buff.lyAnother Week of Lawsuits Piling Up at OpenAITim Bernard and Justin Hendrix break down eight complaints brought by state attorneys general and five by private plaintiffs.
Daniel Solove
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AI commercials shamelessly say the silent part out loud and are proud of how they're enshittifying the world. Their tone deafness is astounding. Here are more such commercials danielsolove.substack.com/p/three-tv-c...

danielsolove.substack.comThree TV Commercials Show What’s Wrong with Big Tech, Privacy, and AIThis year’s Superbowl was a showcase for how out of touch tech companies are when it comes to privacy and AI.
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The first genuinely honest ad for generative AI I've ever seen, from Microsoft / CoPilot A mediocre white guy sees his non-white colleague getting praised for good work, he asks AI to *literally copy it*, and then he gets all the praise instead: www.ispot.tv/ad/SoDi/micr...

Daniel Solove
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When Can the Government Get Your Data? (Fri 10/30 at 12 PM ET) REGISTER FREE teachprivacy.com/video-when-c... I will chat w Andrew Ferguson and Paul Ohm about the Chatrie v. US, the most important 4th Amendment case of the decade. @profferguson.bsky.social @paulohm.bsky.social

teachprivacy.comVideo: When Can the Government Get Your Data?When Can the Government Get Your Data? The 4th Amendment After Chatrie Fri, Oct 30 at 12 PM ET Daniel Solove chats with Andrew Ferguson (GW Law) and Paul
Daniel Solove
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Cory Doctorow's @doctorow.pluralistic.net work in both fiction and non-fiction is absolutely superb and essential reading for anyone interested in policy issues for tech, privacy, and AI. He's an amazing talent - brilliant, witty, always spot on!

By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)@doctorow.pluralistic.net

I published my first story in 1988, when I was 17 years old. Today, at 55, I've published more than 30 books, with three more coming in the next year or so. In the intervening years, I've spent a lot of time thinking and talking about publishing.

Daniel Solove
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The bankruptcy of Character AI is another reminder that your data is only thinly protected by whatever a company promised in their vaguely-worded privacy notice you didn't read. www.kqed.org/news/1210436...

kqed.orgYour Chatbot Just Went Bankrupt. What Happens Now to Your User Data? | KQEDCharacter Technologies, the company behind the AI chatbot app Character.ai, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy this week, raising questions about what happens to millions of users’ private conversations.
Daniel Solove
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AI Slop: What Is It? What Can Be Done About it? Watch my fascinating conversation with Silbey and Hartzog. Read my post with some interesting quotes from articles on AI slop, including Silbey and Hartzog’s. @jessicasilbey.bsky.social and @hartzog.bsky.social

danielsolove.substack.comWhat’s AI Slop? What Should We Do About It?I had a fascinating conversation with Jessica Silbey (BU Law) and Woodrow Hartzog (BU Law) about their thought-provoking article, AI Slop.

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Andrew Guthrie Ferguson
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If you are a legal academic, you are probably wondering about the rules around AI disclosure in law reviews. So were we. Each law review we looked at asked for something different, so if you use AI (I don’t), you should take a look. We can’t promise answers, but the questions are fascinating.

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Disclosing AI Use in Writing Is Complicated danielsolove.substack.com/p/disclosing... I had a great conversation with Prof. Andrew Ferguson @profferguson.bsky.social about law review AI disclosure policies. Watch the conversation and read about the policies and general practices in other fields.

danielsolove.substack.comDisclosing AI Use in Writing Is ComplicatedAs scholars increasingly use AI in scholarly writing, journals and book publishers are starting to require disclosures of AI use.
Daniel Solove
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Disclosing AI Use in Writing Is Complicated danielsolove.substack.com/p/disclosing... I had a great conversation with Prof. Andrew Ferguson @profferguson.bsky.social about law review AI disclosure policies. Watch the conversation and read about the policies and general practices in other fields.

danielsolove.substack.comDisclosing AI Use in Writing Is ComplicatedAs scholars increasingly use AI in scholarly writing, journals and book publishers are starting to require disclosures of AI use.
Daniel Solove
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But if they already have the data, many security issues remain, but then you just lose the benefits. This is often the case with measures given to protect privacy--they just result in more costs and inconvenience to people but they don't actually make an impact on the other side.

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Apropos of the TSA's failure to keep facial recognition data secure, in my book NOTHING TO HIDE from 2011, I warned that until biometric data could be kept secure, it shouldn't be used. Another told ya so! You can download the full PDF of the book for free here papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

papers.ssrn.comNothing to Hide: The False Tradeoff Between Privacy and Security (full text of book)This is the full text of Daniel J. Solove's NOTHING TO HIDE: THE FALSE TRADEOFF BETWEEN PRIVACY AND SECURITY (Yale University Press 2011). Permission is granted
Daniel Solove
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Roberto Carlos García interviews me on his podcast about AI and philosophy: www.ethicscircle.org/aitec-podcas... We chat about my book, ON PRIVACY AND TECHNOLOGY link.amazon/B02EaZVsQ

ethicscircle.org#36 Daniel J. Solove: Privacy, Power, and the Failure of the Law — AITEC Philosophy PodcastWhat if the biggest threat to privacy isn’t technology itself—but the laws that let powerful institutions use it without meaningful accountability? In this episode of the AITEC Philosophy Podcast, R...