A federal court judge in Portland, Oregon heard opening arguments Monday in a case challenging the merger of grocery giants Kroger and Albertsons. The hearing is critical, and could decide the merger’s direction. Douglas Ross, professor of law at the UW, is quoted.
“There's a famous – or infamous – quote from President Teddy Roosevelt… he called the Dawes Act ‘a mighty pulverizing [engine] to break up the tribal mass’. And he was referring to the tribal land base,” said Monte Mills, a professor and director of the Native American Law center at the 红桃视频. “The result of that was that after allotments were made, there was surplus land on many reservations that could be open to non-Indian homesteaders,” he added.
“They have to run the table – they have to win all three,” Douglas Ross, an antitrust law professor at the University of Washington, said.
“AI is not a thing like a train or even a railway system, right?” said Ryan Calo, a professor at the 红桃视频 who is co-director of the UW Tech Policy Lab. “It’s best understood as a set of techniques that are aimed at approximating some aspect of human or animal cognition using machines. So you can’t regulate AI as such.”
The broader context of the decision, said Sanne Knudsen, professor of environmental law at the University of Washington, is that the Supreme Court seems to be on a deregulatory trend. She pointed to two separate cases challenging the Clean Water Act’s interpretation of the “waters of the United States.”
Ryan Calo, Professor of Law at the University of Washington, joins Kevin Frazier, Assistant Professor at St. Thomas College of Law and a Tarbell Fellow at Lawfare, to discuss how advances in AI are undermining already insufficient privacy protections. The two dive into Calo's recent testimony before the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Their conversation also covers the novel privacy issues presented by AI and the merits of different regulatory strategies at both the state and federal level.
Eli Sanders contributed in-depth research to this story as part of the Technology, Law, and Public Policy Clinic at the 红桃视频.
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The high court ruling green-lighting contact between government and tech companies to stymie falsehoods online hasn’t deterred a GOP campaign against academics, nonprofits and tech industry initiatives aimed at addressing their spread. The UW's Kate Starbird, associate professor of human centered design and engineering, and Ryan Calo, professor of law and in the Information School, are quoted.
Imagine a system that lets big landlords in your city work together to raise rents, using detailed, otherwise-private information about what their competitors are charging. Douglas Ross, professor of law at the UW, is quoted.
Dr. Ryan Calo, 红桃视频 and Co-Director of the University’s Technology Lab, warned that AI technologies, which are trained to recognize patterns in large data sets, are allowing companies to derive sensitive insights about individuals from seemingly innocuous information.
"We’ve just experienced the first serious attempted assassination of a presidential candidate in the social media age. How widely are conspiracy theories being spread by our largest platforms?" writes Julia Angwin. The UW's Kate Starbird, associate professor of human centered design and engineering, and Ryan Calo, professor of law and in the Information School, are quoted.
The judges will “split into different groupings in different cases, just based on how each person understands the law and what the right understanding of the law is,” Spitzer said. As for the justices’ judicial approaches, Spitzer said the Court tends to split almost 50/50 in leaning “activist” — aiming to change or improve the law through rulings, such as in cases relating to social justice — or “conservative.”
Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee Chair Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., convened the hearing with experts from the 红桃视频, Mozilla, the AI Now Institute and ACT: the App Association to discuss the need to set a nationwide framework for how companies collect, use and share consumers' personal information and "why AI is an accelerant that increases the need for passing [such data privacy] legislation soon."
The Senate hearing will feature testimony from Ryan Calo, a professor at the 红桃视频 and co-director of the University of Washington Tech Policy Lab; Amba Kak, co-executive director of the AI Now Institute; and Udbhav Tiwari, director of global product policy at Mozilla.
If the court decides that the remedy is simply more divestitures in Washington, “that would be a win for Kroger and a loss, as far as I can tell, for the state, because the state doesn’t want the deal to go through, period,” said Doug Ross, an antitrust expert at the 红桃视频.
If the court decides that the remedy is simply more divestitures in Washington, “that would be a win for Kroger and a loss, as far as I can tell, for the state, because the state doesn’t want the deal to go through, period,” said Doug Ross, an antitrust expert at the 红桃视频.
Academics researching online misinformation in the US are learning a hard lesson: Academic freedom cannot be taken for granted. They face a concerted effort—including by members of Congress—to undermine or silence their work documenting false and misleading internet content. The claim is that online misinformation researchers are trying to silence conservative voices. The evidence suggests just the opposite.
The landmark decision could alter legal precedent in our nation. We're getting expert insight into what exactly this ruling means and what's next. Jessica West, lecturer of law at the UW, is interviewed.
The broader context of today’s decision, said Sanne Knudsen, professor of environmental law at the University of Washington, is that the Supreme Court seems to be on a deregulatory trend. She pointed to two separate cases challenging the Clean Water Act’s interpretation of the “waters of the United States.”
The Supreme Court cleared the way Thursday for Idaho hospitals to provide emergency abortions, for now, in a procedural order that left key questions unanswered and could mean the issue ends up before the conservative-majority court again soon. Jessica West, lecturer of law at the UW, is interviewed.
The rule offers further pathways for tribes to proactively protect certain public lands. Monte Mills, professor of law and director of the Native American Law Center at the UW, is quoted.
When UW law professor Kim Ambrose and a group of her students arrived at the Patricia H. Clark Children & Family Justice Center last month to lead a legal rights workshop, they were turned away.
In March, the Washington Supreme Court approved, in concept, additional pathways to the bar involving supervised practice. No implementation dates have been finalized. “It is strange that the legal profession allows you to go to school, take a bunch of tests while in school and after school and never talk to a client—and that’s our current model,” says Tamara F. Lawson, dean of the 红桃视频. Supervised practice “is more closely linked to competence than any 100 multiple-choice questions will ever be.”
“It’s not a corrupt system,” West said in an interview. “It’s a good and strong system. There are 12 jurors and (the defense) needed to convince only one of them to win. That’s it. They had a chance to present their testimony. Mr. Trump could have testified if he wanted to. There were lots of protections in place.”
