Congress should consider legislation to regulate the content moderation practices of platforms. Failure to act will leave platform users unprotected and will allow other countries, notably the European Union and China, to seize global leadership in yet another area of tech policy. But a law...

Abstract. The financial services sector provides an interesting case study for the proper relationship between government and the private sector in the area of information security. Financial information is attractive to thieves; the sector is pervasively and pro-actively examined and regulated;...

This paper describes and assesses several competing group and individual statistical standards of fairness, including the mathematical conflict between predictive parity and equal error rates that requires organizations to choose which measure to satisfy. The choice between statistical concepts...

This chapter argues that big data analytics, including machine learning and artificial intelligence, are natural outgrowths of recent developments in computer technology such as the availability of massive data sets, vast increases in computing power, and breakthroughs in analytical techniques....

The Algorithmic Accountability Act of 2019, sponsored by Senators Cory Booker (D-NJ) and Ron Wyden (D-OR), with a House equivalent sponsored by Rep. Yvette Clarke (D-NY), requires companies to assess their automatic decision systems for risks to “privacy and security of personal information”...

This Article describes how merger reviews under current competition law are able to treat privacy as a dimension of competition. It illustrates this possibility through an examination of the European Commission’s reviews of the Facebook/WhatsApp merger and the Microsoft/LinkedIn merger. This...