Stanford Center for Internet and Society

05/20/2026

The TAKE IT DOWN Act took effect yesterday, requiring platforms to remove nonconsensual intimate imagery (NCII) within 48 hours of a valid request. In a Techdirt post, CIS Affiliate Riana Pfefferkorn argues that while the law has real potential to help victims, it's also ripe for abuse and the only way to know which way it goes is if platforms start including TIDA takedown statistics in their transparency reports. We deserve the data.

Today marks the deadline for online platforms to implement a process for notice-and-takedown of nonconsensual intimate imagery (NCII) under the TAKE IT DOWN Act (TIDA), which became law one year ag…

05/12/2026

Recommended reading for those working at the intersection of law and technology: Daniel Gervais's review of Ryan Calo's Law and Technology: A Methodical Approach (2025), published in Jotwell.

Calo proposes a four-step framework for legal analysis of technology — defining the technology, examining its affordances, surfacing normative assumptions, and identifying legal levers for intervention. His central argument: technology reflects human choices, not inevitable progress, and legal scholarship must engage with it accordingly.

Full review: https://cyber.jotwell.com/a-method-for-the-madness-of-tech-law/

05/06/2026

What are schools legally required to do when a student uses AI to create a deepfake n**e of a classmate? The answer is murkier than it should be.

In the latest episode of The Deepfake Dialogues, CIS Affiliate + Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI) Policy Fellow Riana Pfefferkorn talks about her policy brief on AI-generated CSAM in schools — covering how schools can respond without re-traumatizing victims, and what the Grok scandal revealed about platform-enabled abuse at scale.

Spotify: https://lnkd.in/githKnAx

Apple Podcasts: https://lnkd.in/gRkXFbDJ

Youtube: https://lnkd.in/gu5a7RY7

05/05/2026

California's proposed attorney AI ethics rules would require lawyers to verify AI-cited authorities and stay current on AI risks, but should also address the risk of attorneys being fooled by deepfakes as evidence, writes CIS Affiliate Riana Pfefferkorn

I submitted a comment to the California State Bar's Standing Committee on Professional Responsibility and Conduct (COPRAC) on its proposed amendments to the attorney ethics rules related to AI. Given the growing epidemic of attorneys submitting AI-tainted filings in court (which I wrote about here l...

04/09/2026

Jen King & Tiffany Saade find that foundation models pose sweeping, underaddressed privacy risks—from scraping personal data during training to exposing sensitive info in outputs and enabling adversarial attacks. Existing frameworks like GDPR fall short, leaving the public reliant on developers. Policymakers must act.

04/09/2026

Jennifer Granick argues society can't survive AI-powered mass criminal enforcement — nearly everyone has broken some law, and records block access to housing, jobs, and licenses. Speaking at a CCA panel on AI and art, she warns against predictive tools mining bank records and social media, urging artists to engage seriously with AI's societal impact.

Art can tell impactful stories of how AI supercharges government power

03/26/2026

Stanford Program in Law, Science & Technology Director of Platform Regulation Daphne Keller testified before the Senate Commerce Committee as Section 230 turns 30 — weighing in on platform power, online expression, and the First Amendment limits on Congress.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. –U.S. Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, will convene a full committee h...

03/11/2026

AI labs including Anthropic, OpenAI & Google default to training on your private chats—medical records, confessions & more. Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence fellow and CIS Affiliate Dr. Jennifer King warns it's a serious privacy risk. Check your chatbot settings and opt out now

Did you know your conversations are default opted-in for use in training by the leading AI labs? Time to check the settings.

02/24/2026

Stanford privacy expert Dr. Jennifer King studies how companies trap users' data yet even she couldn't stop apps like TeamSnap from collecting her kids' info or easily delete her account. CA bill AB 1159 aims to close loopholes letting ed-tech companies sell student data.

California laws protecting student data have loopholes that allow tech companies to continue packaging and selling that information.

02/12/2026

Stanford CIS Affiliate Jennifer Granick reviews Orin Kerr's "The Digital Fourth Amendment," agreeing with his "equilibrium-adjustment" theory that Fourth Amendment protections should evolve as technology changes. But she criticizes his cautious approach, his 1920s baseline that ignores historical racism in policing, and inadequate focus on bystander privacy and government overreach

The Digital Fourth Amendment is written by Professor Orin Kerr, one of the country’s foremost authorities on the Fourth Amendment, electronic privacy, and criminal procedure. Kerr’s work has been deeply influential in shaping how courts are looking at and deciding issues raised by law enforcemen...