Volume 46, Issue 5
January 2021
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Merging the Social and the Public: How Social Media Platforms Could Be a New Public Forum
When Facebook and other social media sites announced in August 2018 that they would ban extremist speakers, such as conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, for violating their rules against hate speech, reactions were strong. People either criticized the ban by saying that such measures were only a drop in the bucket with regard to toxic and…
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AI Entities as AI Agents: Artificial Intelligence Liability and the AI Respondeat Superior Analogy
Artificial Intelligence (AI) based entities are already causing damages and fatalities in today’s commercial world. As a result, the dispute about tort liability of AI-based machines, algorithms, agents, and robots is exponentially advancing in the scholarly world and outside of it. When it comes to AI accidents, different scholars and key figures in the AI…
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Autonomous Vehicles: Regulatory Challenges and the Response from Germany and UK
The looming dominance of autonomous vehicles has an impact on well-established areas of human activity such as the architecture of the cities and the transportation system. At the legal front, laws at the national and international level have become obsolete as technological changes have created new realities. At the same time, such technology development is…
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My Brother’s Keeper: Using the Intelligence Toolbox on Domestic Terrorism
I remember the morning of April 19, 1995. I was seven years old and confused by the rubble that consistently flashed across my television. Words like “Oklahoma City Bombing” hung in the air, and Timothy McVeigh became synonymous with evil. I remember the morning of September 11, 2001. I was thirteen years old and confused…
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Consent, Appropriation by Manipulation, and the 10-Year Challenge: How an Internet Meme Complicated Biometric Information Privacy
In 2019, a viral Internet meme called the “10-Year Challenge” flooded social-media newsfeeds, asking users the question: “How hard did aging hit you?” Users responded by sharing side-by-side photographs of themselves from 2009 and 2019 with their followers. While the challenge spread across social-media platforms, commentators began speculating about the challenge’s origins after a writer…