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Privacy and AI Deregulation Will Be Bad for Innovation

Originally posted on Substack Unfortunately, the EU might be falling for the delusion that rolling back tech regulation will result in AI suddenly sprouting from its soil. It’s magical thinking that taking a few whacks at the GDPR and AI Act will somehow conjure up AI. I see it as more akin to pulling out […]

VIDEO: Is Online Scraping Legal?

Daniel Solove and Woodrow Hartzog discuss their article, The Great Scrape: The Clash Between Privacy and Scraping, 113 Cal. L. Rev. 1521 (2025). They argue that scraping, which is essential for AI, is inconsistent with nearly all core privacy principles in privacy laws. Is there a way to reconcile scraping and privacy?