A publishing house in Munich is running scams, according to Google's AI overview. The issue with the allegation: none of it was in any of the sources linked. A court in Germany has now ordered Google to answer for these apparent falsehoods. @ignaciocofone.bsky.social breaks down the case.

AI Overviews and the Limits of the Search Safe Harbor

A regional court in Germany ordered Google to answer for apparent falsehoods about a Munich publishing house provided by its AI overview feature.

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#ResponsibleAI Talk Three Models of AI Regulation Speaker: @ignaciocofone.bsky.social, University of Oxford Date: June 20, 2026 Time: 3:30pm (London) To join online, send empty email, subject “Subscribe RAI” to daniele.quercia@gmail.com

Providers, not regulators, are increasingly setting the standards against which their own AI systems are measured, writes @ignaciocofone.bsky.social (Ignacio Cofone).

The Handover of AI Standard-Setting

Providers, not regulators, are increasingly setting the standards against which their own AI systems are measured.

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Finally, in “Inference, Abuse, and the Limits of Privacy Law,” @ignaciocofone.bsky.social highlights how our article “exposes the misalignment between where privacy law places responsibility and where the conditions of harm are actually produced.” www.californialawreview.org/online/infer...

Inference, Abuse, and the Limits of Privacy Law — California Law Review

Brokering Safety identifies a failure of privacy law: the tendency to allocate responsibility to individuals through opt-out and deletion rights, even as informational harm is generated by distribute...

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It is an honor to have not one, not two, but three world class essays responding to Brokering Safety. Go check out @evanselinger.bsky.social & @hartzog.bsky.social, @oliviersylvain.bsky.social, and @ignaciocofone.bsky.social’s essays for @califlrev.bsky.social!

We were delighted to host @ignaciocofone.bsky.social, in conversation with @teresascassa.bsky.social, about his new book " Canadian Privacy Law: Cases and Comparative Materials", exploring how legal frameworks are evolving to address the challenges of privacy in the digital age.

Congrats to @ignaciocofone.bsky.social fone on Canadian Privacy Law: Cases and Materials (Emond Publishing), a casebook comprehensively covering Canada’s privacy framework across private law, statutes, and the Charter. Great to see this out! emond.ca/Store/Books/...

Join us on May 1st for a conversation with @ignaciocofone.bsky.social around his new book Canadian Privacy Law exploring how legal frameworks are evolving to address the challenges of privacy in the digital age. ℹ️/🎟 www.uottawa.ca/research-inn...

Being on the TED stage has been one of the biggest thrills of my life. My TED talk is live! Please share widely! Predictions can be weapons of power, and we are being much too naive about them, from prediction markets to AI. #Prophecy www.ted.com/talks/cariss...

Beware the power of prediction

What do the story of Oedipus and your insurance premiums have in common? They are both driven by self-fulfilling prophecies. Philosopher and TED Fellow Carissa Véliz traces the hidden power of predict...

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Join us on May 1st for a conversation with @ignaciocofone.bsky.social around his new book Canadian Privacy Law exploring how legal frameworks are evolving to address the challenges of privacy in the digital age. ℹ️/🎟 www.uottawa.ca/research-inn...

Very glad my paper with Katherine Strandburg, "Algorithmic Opacity as a Principal-Agent Problem," is now forthcoming in the NYU Journal of Intellectual Property papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Two new articles by ISP fellow @ignaciocofone.bsky.social : The Privacy Paradox Is a Misnomer: Data Under Structural Uncertainty : papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... -and- Consent, Design, and Deceit: A Bottom-up Proposal for Regulating Dark Patterns: Link: ssrn.com/abstract=569...

Really glad to see this piece published. Stav does something the control debate in privacy law needed: she disaggregates the critiques, showing they operate at diff levels & the relevant arguments are different. Highly recommend it to anyone with views in favor or against control/consent in privacy

Stav Zeitouni@stzeitouni.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Happy to share that my piece on the concept of control and its critique(s) in privacy law has been published as part of a symposium on @ignaciocofone.bsky.social 's The Privacy Fallacy, over on Lex Electronica. This incorporates some insights from my dissertation, especially around...

Thrilled that Canadian Privacy Law: Cases and Comparative Materials is now published by Emond. It comes out of six years of teaching Privacy Law at McGill and it's the first casebook to cover Canadian Privacy Law as a whole, integrating torts, statutes, criminal law, and constitutional law

At this week’s Ideas Lunch, we were delighted to host Prof. @ignaciocofone.bsky.social and Prof. Katherine Strandburg for a fascinating talk on “Algorithmic Opacity as a Principal-Agent Problem.” Thank you both for such a thoughtful discussion.

The UK and France’s response to the Grok deepfake case suggests that effective AI regulation may not come from comprehensive AI-specific frameworks, but from the proper application of existing harm-based approaches to new capabilities, writes @ignaciocofone.bsky.social:

Grok, Deepfakes, and the Collapse of the Content/Capability Distinction

The Grok case suggests that effective AI regulation may come not from comprehensive AI-specific frameworks, but from applying existing harm-based laws to new capabilities.

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Can’t wait to read this! For our part the @lco-cdo.bsky.social 2024 Consumer Protection Project recommended Ontario regulate consumer notice to include “market contexts” - plain language descriptions of systems & real risks ie “structural uncertainties.” See p 33-36: www.lco-cdo.org/wp-content/u...

Happy to share “The Privacy Paradox is a Misnomer: Data Under Structural Uncertainty” (GTLJ 2026) which empirically shows uncertainty about downstream data uses and consequences, rather than unstable or contradictory preferences, drives the so-called privacy paradox papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

ISP Fellow @ignaciocofone.bsky.social publishes in Iowa Law Review about "Taxonomizing Synthetic Data for Law" papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Happy to share our new piece with Katherine Strandburg & Nicholas Tilmes, “Taxonomizing Synthetic Data for Law.” It engages Gal & Lynskey’s excellent article & centers the role of ground-truth assumptions. The key q is how creation methods encode claims about the world ssrn.com/abstract=555...

As many know, @bjard.bsky.social and I have been drafting a Technology Law coursebook for a few years. We've used it to teach classes at three institutions, including Yale Law School, and others have used chapters in their techlaw classes. We're excited to share the current version more broadly!

Always read @ignaciocofone.bsky.social, including accidental legal history.

My article "Protecting Consumers in a Post-Consent World," about how we can broaden antitrust and consumer protection to deal with the fact that we have abandoned notice and consent in contract law, is now published in the Stanford Law Review Online. www.stanfordlawreview.org/online/prote...

Protecting Consumers in a Post-Consent World | Stanford Law Review

In Charting a New Course on Digital Consumer Protection at the Federal Trade Commission, former FTC Chair Lina Khan and her co-authors Samuel Levine a

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New op-ed: Many users were distraught over OpenAI’s shift from GPT-4o to GPT-5, describing the change as “losing a friend” or a “therapist.” The enormous online reaction shows that, when language models sound convincingly human, people start to forget they aren't.

Big thank you to @frankpasquale.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy for his generous review of The Privacy Fallacy in the Journal of Law & Political Economy. He lays out the difficult questions involved in valuing harm & distributing compensation, in which LPE can play a role escholarship.org/uc/item/4jz9...

I'm delighted to share that my article, AI and Doctrinal Collapse, is forthcoming in Stanford Law Review! Draft at papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.....

I often think of this intentional stylistic choice as the opposite of Madeleine Elish’s “moral crumple zone” papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Grateful to Christopher D’Souza for his thoughtful review of The Privacy Fallacy in the Canadian Journal of Law & Technology. He that our privacy regime is, as he says,“not only outdated, but untenable” in the face of current data practices.

Check out recorded talks from our Law & Tech Speaker Series: lnkd.in/eBZ2prw7 In “Why AI Requires Rebuilding Privacy Law”, Prof. @ignaciocofone.bsky.social explains why AI demands shifting privacy law from individual control to harm prevention. 👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsQV...

New draft from me, “Privacy and Disinformation,” on why privacy law, not speech or economic regulation, is the best path forward for fighting social media disinformation. Read the draft here (and later finalized in UC Law Journal): papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....