Originally posted on Substack Isaac Asimov’s satirical short story “Franchise” is highly relevant for today. The story was published in 1955 in the magazine If: World of Science Fiction. The story depicts the absurdity of algorithmic predictions. A machine decides elections based on one voter to predict the results of the entire election.
Originally Posted on Substack I created this cartoon because I often hear older people scoff at how younger people don’t care about privacy because they’re exposing so much of their lives. But I find these sentiments to be chutzpah because young people are exposing their lives due to the way technology is nudging, pushing, cajoling, […]
Originally Posted on Substack There is recent talk about taxing AI, which is probably a non-starter with policymakers adverse to doing anything to stand in the way of tech companies. But the tax idea isn’t totally crazy because AI these days is, for all practical purposes, a major tax on society. Although AI has many […]
Originally posted on Substack I’ve curated a list of recent works on privacy, AI, and tech that will be worth your time checking out. Authors included: Graham Greenleaf Ella Corren Cindy Cohn Andrew Guthrie Ferguson Alicia Solow-Niederman Laura Moy Mark P. McKenna Woodrow Hartzog Maria P. Angel Christina Lee Zina Makar Elettra Bietti Peter Ormerod
Originally posted on Substack Published posthumously, Italo Calvino’s Numbers in the Dark (2002) is a provocative collection of stories written between 1943 and 1984 that explores the effects of digital technologies and data.
Originally posted on Substack Yesterday, I edited Chatrie v. United States (2026) for my casebook, INFORMATION PRIVACY LAW, which Paul Schwartz and I are in the process of updating right now. The U.S. Supreme Court held that there is a reasonable expectation of privacy in geolocation data obtained via a geofencing warrant (which compels a company to turn […]
Originally posted on Substack Here’s a new cartoon about the AI hype these days. It seems that everything involving data or an algorithm is being rebranded as AI. A while ago, I wrote about how AI is, in fact, a rebrand—one I analogized to the way fish were rebranded.
Originally posted on Substack I recently finished watching the first season of a terrific new TV series, The Audacity (2026). The show chronicles Duncan Park (Billy Magnussen), an out-of-control tech billionaire who has a company called Hypergnosis. The show was created by Jonathan Glatzer, who was a writer and producer for several TV series including Succession, Better Call Saul, and Bloodline.
Originally posted on Substack I created this cartoon about the profound ugliness of the AI race. Tech leaders are rushing to create AI and are unleashing it upon the world far too quickly with far too few guardrails and far too little responsibility.
Originally posted on Substack I previously posted my collection of privacy magazine covers. Here’s my collection of magazine covers involving AI, the internet, and related digital technologies. I collected more than 80 magazine covers from the 1950s to the present. I’m excited to share my collection with you. If you have any covers I’ve missed, please share […]