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In a timely challenge to the potent political role of digital technology, Cyberlibertarianism: The Right-Wing Politics of Digital Technology argues that right-wing ideology was built into both the technical and social construction of the digital world from the start. Leveraging more than a decade of research, David Golumbia, who passed away in 2023, traced how digital evangelism has driven a worldwide shift toward the political right, concealing inequality, xenophobia, dishonesty, and massive corporate concentrations of wealth and power beneath the idealistic presumption of digital technology as an inherent social good. George Justice wrote the foreword to Cyberlibertarianism, and is joined in conversation with Frank Pasquale.George Justice is professor of English literature and provost at the University of Tulsa.Frank Pasquale is professor of law at Cornell Tech and Cornell Law School.David Golumbia (1963–2023) was associate professor of English at Virginia Commonwealth University and author of Cyberlibertarianism: The Right-Wing Politics of Digital Technology; The Politics of Bitcoin: Software as Right-Wing Extremism; and The Cultural Logic of Computation.EPISODE REFERENCES:Tim WuLawrence LessigWikileaksDavid E. Pozen: Transparency's Ideological Drift https://openyls.law.yale.edu/handle/20.500.13051/10354Stefanos Geroulanos / Transparency in Postwar France#CreateDontScrapeDavid Golumbia / ChatGPT Should Not Exist (article)M. T. Anderson / FeedJonathan Crary / Scorched Earth"If you want to understand the origins of our information hellscape with its vast new inequalities, corrupt information, algorithmic control, population-scale behavioral manipulation, and wholesale destruction of privacy, then begin here."—Shoshana Zuboff, author of The Age of Surveillance Capitalism"Cyberlibertarianism is essential for understanding the contemporary moment and the recent past that got us here. It stands as a monumental magnum opus from a meticulous thinker and sharp social critic who is sorely missed."—Sarah T. Roberts, director, Center for Critical Internet Inquiry, UCLACyberlibertarianism: The Right-Wing Politics of Digital Technology is available from University of Minnesota Press.

Karan Girotra, a professor at the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business and Cornell Tech, and Frank Pasquale, a professor of law at Cornell Tech and Cornell Law School, discuss the laws and ethics of generative AI while looking at performance guarantees as well as unintended consequences and outcomes.The conversation highlights how organizations in finance, health, education, media and manufacturing are using these technologies in clever ways and charts a path for the next generation of use cases — ones that go beyond using assistants to enhance individual productivity.What You'll LearnHow the laws and ethics of generative AI are guiding — or not guiding — practices at organizationsHow leading organizations in finance, health, education, media and manufacturing are using AI ethically and legallyHow to identify viable new use cases for AI in your businessThe Cornell Keynotes podcast is brought to you by eCornell, which offers more than 200 online certificate programs to help professionals advance their careers and organizations. Karan Girotra and Frank Pasquale are authors of the Generative AI for Productivity certificate. Additional online and in-person programs from these Cornell faculty members include:AI 360AI for Digital TransformationCornell Tech Board of Directors ForumDigital LeadershipOmnichannel Leadership ProgramRetail Media StrategyLearn more about all of our generative AI certificate programs.Follow Girotra on LinkedIn and X.Did you enjoy this episode of the Cornell Keynotes podcast? Watch the Keynote. Follow eCornell on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, TikTok, and X.

Familiar Stranger Emma sits down with Frank Pasquale from Brooklyn Law School. Frank is also currently co-editor-in-chief of the Journal of Cross-Disciplinary Research in Computational Law! Frank is one of the leaders in relation to AI Law and cross-disciplinary approaches, with his works of The Black Box Society The Secret Algorithms That Control Money and Information and New Laws of Robotics Defending Human Expertise in the Age of AI, incorporates a broad range of insight from an even broader range of disciplines. In this conversation, Emma and Frank touch on authority, Trust and the essays of Clifford Geertz. Briefly dive deep into America's Anti-Trust laws and eventually discuss ideas of where to next for AI technologies, and how disciplines can work more efficiently to drive new insights and findings.

It's no secret that access to affordable housing in America is increasingly out of reach. Activists in the growing YIMBY (“Yes In My Back Yard”) movement believe they have a solution: build more of everything.  On this episode, associate editor Griffin Oleynick speaks with Max Holleran, a sociologist at the University of Melbourne in Australia and author of Yes to the City: Millennials and the Fight for Affordable Housing, a detailed study of the YIMBYs.  The YIMBYs' push for new construction, Holleran argues, won't entirely solve the problem of housing affordability. To do that, we must not only re-invest in alternatives like community land trusts, but also continue fighting for higher wages and greater income equality. For further reading:  “Making the Rent,” The Editors “The Bay Area's Infinite Loop,” Kaya Oakes “Poverty and Profit in the American City,” Frank Pasquale

Sydney Ideas welcomes back Professor Frank Pasquale (Brooklyn Law School), a leading author and academic on the law of artificial intelligence (AI), algorithms, and machine learning. He is joined by local experts to unpack the challenges and advantages of AI and how it is changing medical practice. The potential for AI and its ability to improve how healthcare is delivered is well documented. From supporting the patient experience and how they access healthcare services, to assisting practitioners in avoiding errors, AI can enable healthcare systems to offer better care to more people. However, we'll only take full advantage of what AI has to offer, with wise policy choices. How can governmental and other authorities better support the development of quality AI for diagnosis and clinical decision making? Do we have the systems in place to make the meaningful changes needed for doctors and hospital administrators to take genuine advantage of the potential of AI? What are the challenges they face? Hear from Frank Pasquale, author of New Laws of Robotics: Defending Human Expertise in the Age of AI (Harvard University Press, 2020) followed by a conversation with Associate Professor and Paediatric Anaesthetist, Justin Skowno and Professor of law and a specialist at the intersection of law and technology, Kimberlee Weatherall (moderator). This Sydney Ideas event was held online, on Monday 25 July 2022. To view the event page, please go to this link: https://bit.ly/3ONVKA0

Frank Pasquale (Brooklyn Law School) is a leading commentator on the social and legal consequences of AI, robotics and algorithms. Drawing on his 2020 book ‘The New Laws of Robotics', Frank talks about various emerging issues around education and AI – from the changing status of professional educators to the possible regulation of ed-tech.

The robots will steal our jobs. That's how many people see the future of labor in the United States. But what do we stand to lose when humans aren't doing the work they've done for decades?Frank Pasquale is a Professor of Law at Brooklyn Law School. And also the author of New Laws Of Robotics: Defending Human Expertise In The Age Of A.I. and The Black Box Society: The Secret Algorithms That Control Money And Information.We often overestimate what AI can do, even as it gains ground all around us. Listen as Greg and Frank discuss how AI should complement human labor, not replace it, augmented vs artificial intelligence and the delicate balance algorithms and individual discretion.Episode Quotes:Possible problems with algorithms becoming the norm over human insight:My worry is that the cost cutting pressure in many of these areas is so high that we're going to see this pressure to repeatedly get rid of the professional, or make people jump through a hundred hoops that are automated, like a phone tree before they get to the professional. So the game becomes, how do I present my symptoms so I can finally get it to a doctor? I'm very worried about that sort of future.How do we police the algorithms for flaws:Ideally it's in the owners of these systems interest to invite criticism and to invite feedback and to get people involved in improving them. And in a way that could be a good business strategy. If you get more people invested in improving what you're doing, then you have this sort of group that becomes a community that can also enjoy being committed to investing in some way in one's own services.Where automation is happening now:Okay everyone who's really thinking about AI - they're looking for the self-driving car, they're looking for The Jetsons sort of scenario. And it's like, don't look there. Look to high-frequency trading and finance. And look to your newsfeed. Right? Cause that's where you've got total automation.Show Links:Guest Profile:Frank Pasquale on TwitterFrank Pasquale on LinkedinFaculty Profile at Brooklyn Law SchoolProfessional Profile at Vermont Law SchoolHis work:Frank Pasquale on Google ScholarNew Laws of Robotics: Defending Human Expertise in the Age of AIThe Black Box Society: The Secret Algorithms That Control Money and Information

Frank Pasquale joins us to discuss the rise of cost-benefit analysis as an influential force in American policy, the many problems with it, and what should be done about it. We also discuss his introduction to the Law and Political Economy Project's symposium on cost benefit analysis. Frank Pasquale (@FrankPasquale) is a Professor of Law at Brooklyn Law School, and author of New Laws of Robotics (2020) and The Black Box Society (2015). Read the LPE symposium here: lpeproject.org/symposia/cost-benefit-analysis/ This episode was originally a patron exclusive posted December 13th. If you enjoy this episode consider supporting the show at patreon.com/deathpanelpod new Death Panel merch here (patrons get a discount code): www.deathpanel.net/merch join our Discord here: discord.com/invite/3KjKbB2

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: www.patreon.com/posts/60399460 Beatrice speaks with Loretta Torrago about the choices being forced on medically vulnerable children and their caregivers, and how the experiences of ill and disabled children have been largely erased during the pandemic. PSA: This week's public episode (12/30) we're unlocking our interview with Frank Pasquale so the Panel can catch up with themselves. We're back for an episode with the full Panel next Monday (1/3) Runtime 1:10:04, 27 December 2021

In this episode, Dr Simon McKenzie talks with Anna Briers about what visual art can tell us about new digital technologies. The current show at UQ Art Museum – called ‘Don't Be Evil' – seeks to show us some of the invisible power structures of networked technology, including the implications of machine learning, artificial intelligence, and data capitalism.Anna Briers is the Curator at the UQ Art Museum. She has curated in both an institutional and freelance capacity for over a decade in various contexts ranging from art museums and arts festivals, through to underground tunnels and golden canola fields. She holds a Masters of Art Curatorship from the University of Melbourne, a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) and a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Elam) from the University of Auckland.Further reading:UQ Art Museum, Conflict in My Outlook_We Met Online Safiya Noble, Algorithms of oppression: how search engines reinforce racism (2018: New York University Press)Timnit Gebru, 'Race and Gender' in Markus D. Dubber, Frank Pasquale, and Sunit Das (ed) in The Oxford Handbook of Ethics of AI (2020: Oxford University Press)Kate Crawford and Vladan Joler, The Anatomy of an AI System (2018)Simon Denny, Extractor (2019)Sean Dockray, Learning from YouTube (2018)Forensic Architecture, Model Zoo (2020) 

Subscribe on Patreon and hear this week's full patron-exclusive episode here: www.patreon.com/posts/58173782 Frank Pasquale joins us to discuss the rise of cost-benefit analysis as an influential force in American policy, the many problems with it, and what should be done about it. We also discuss his introduction to the Law and Political Economy Project's symposium on cost benefit analysis. Frank Pasquale (@FrankPasquale) is a Professor of Law at Brooklyn Law School, and author of New Laws of Robotics (2020) and The Black Box Society (2015). Read the LPE symposium here: https://lpeproject.org/symposia/cost-benefit-analysis/ Runtime 1:07:59, 2 November 2021

Prof. Frank Pasquale of Brooklyn Law School discusses his 2020 book "New Laws of Robotics - Defending Human Expertise in the Age of AI" with Nicolas Wittstock. Here, Prof. Frank Pasquale warns of hasty implementation of AI systems and robots in varied areas of life before ensuring that technologies serve humans - rather than the other way around.

Frank Pasquale discusses his book "New Laws of Robotics." Mark recommends it highly. Tomaš Dvořák - "Game Boy Tune" - "Mark's comments" - "Interview with Frank Pasquale" - "Mark's comments after the interview" The Cool Greenhouse - "Alexa!" https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/103517

Professor Frank Pasquale (Brooklyn School of Law) and Professor Steve Fuller (University of Warwick) debate whether humans should regulate artificial intelligence, and discuss the appropriate ways to safeguard the development of automation technologies. Pasquale argued for a precautionary approach to the development of AI - one that favours a careful deployment of new laws for their usage. Whereas Fuller argued for a more proactionary approach to technological innovation - one that allows AI to developed unencumbered by the sorts of governance that might limit its scope. This debate was recorded for SingularityNET as part of their Decentralised OS Web Series. This Bonus Episode is not sponsored content. Frank Pasquale is Professor of Law at Brooklyn Law School and author of The Black Box Society: The Secret Algorithms That Control Money and Information. His work has appeared in the Atlantic, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Guardian, and other outlets. Prof. Steve Fuller is Auguste Comte Professor of Social Epistemology at the University of Warwick, UK. Originally trained in history and philosophy of science, he is the author of more than twenty books. From 2011 to 2014 he published three books with Palgrave on 'Humanity 2.0'. His most recent book is Nietzschean Meditations: Untimely Thoughts at the Dawn of Transhuman Era (Schwabe Verlag, 2020). Find out more: futurespodcast.net CREDITS Produced by FUTURES Podcast Recorded, Mixed & Edited by Luke Robert Mason FOLLOW FUTURES PODCAST Twitter: @FUTURESPodcast Instagram: @futurespodcast Facebook: @FUTURESPodcast

Professor of Law Frank Pasquale shares his insights on how Artificial Intelligence (AI) can capitalise on human strengths and take advantage of human limits; what automation means for healthcare, education and warfare; and how the robotics regulations we implement today might have a dramatic effect on the future of work. Frank Pasquale is Professor of Law at Brooklyn Law School and author of The Black Box Society: The Secret Algorithms That Control Money and Information. His work has appeared in the Atlantic, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Guardian, and other outlets. Find out more: futurespodcast.net CREDITS Produced by FUTURES Podcast Recorded, Mixed & Edited by Luke Robert Mason FOLLOW FUTURES PODCAST Twitter: @FUTURESPodcast Instagram: @futurespodcast Facebook: @FUTURESPodcast

Way back in 1942 science fiction writer Isaac Asimov created the Three Laws of Robotics. They were written into a short story called “Runaround”. Their influence on technological development has been significant and long lasting Now, legal academic and AI expert Frank Pasquale has expanded that list. Building on Asimov’s legacy, Professor Pasquale’s four new laws of robotics are designed to ensure that the future development of artificial intelligence is done in the interest of humanity.

Way back in 1942 science fiction writer Isaac Asimov created the Three Laws of Robotics. They were written into a short story called “Runaround”. Their influence on technological development has been significant and long lasting Now, legal academic and AI expert Frank Pasquale has expanded that list. Building on Asimov’s legacy, Professor Pasquale’s four new laws of robotics are designed to ensure that the future development of artificial intelligence is done in the interest of humanity.

Frank Pasquale joins Money on the Left to discuss the legal and monetary politics that will determine the future of automation. Professor of Law at the Brooklyn Law School, Pasquale is author of The Black Box Society: The Secret Algorithms That Control Money and Information (2015) as well as recently published New Laws of Robotics: Defending Human Expertise in the Age of AI (2020), both with Harvard University Press. He is a leading thinker in the law of A.I., algorithms, and machine learning and, as he makes clear in his recent book, a committed advocate for a public-money driven just transition from the current paradigm of “equality before the algorithm” to a brighter future replete with ethical, complimentary robotics. Our conversation with Pasquale covers these and a number of other surprising components of his project, including his critique of post-structuralist, post-humanist, and accelerationist discourses. There is something for everyone in this conversation--whether you’re interested in the future of robotics, the present of machine learning, the history of money, or the promise of critical theory in our post-COVID world.

Professor Frank Pasquale, Brooklyn Law School, is an expert in the regulation of AI, with wide-ranging expertise from law and political economy to healthcare policy and privacy. His latest book is “New Laws of Robotics: Defending Human Expertise in the Age of AI”. In this episode, we talk about the loss of trust in US democratic processes; why regulators around the world are investigating alleged abuses of power by Google, Facebook, Apple and Amazon; whether governments should use the location data collected by private companies to trace COVID contacts; why Frank says we’re in an arms race of self-disclosure to virtual nakedness; how AI decision-making could be democratised to make it more trustworthy; and whether the very nature of trust is changing. Find Frank’s latest book here: https://www.harvard.com/book/new_laws_of_robotics/

On today's episode, Frank Pasquale, author of New Laws of Robotics, discusses whether voting can ever be replaced by artificial intelligence. Frank Pasquale is Professor of Law at Brooklyn Law School and author of The Black Box Society: The Secret Algorithms That Control Money and Information. His work has appeared in the Atlantic, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Guardian, and other outlets. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Humans have long been fascinated by the idea of automatons. But increasingly, robots are also just reality, as more work is automated - especially during the COVID-19 pandemic, to accommodate physical distancing. This week: a look at the new rules we need to prepare for a world of automation. During COVID-19, robots deliver groceries and medicine and disinfect public spaces. And sure, automation is great for routine, repetitive tasks - but what about things that require more nuance and social context, like caring for a sick patient? Roboticist Julie Carpenter discusses the social impact of rapid robot deployment during COVID-19 on humans. When it comes to robotics and AI, the dominant narrative is that automation will replace any jobs that can be made routine. Frank Pasquale, lawyer and author of New Laws of Robotics: Defending Human Expertise in the Age of AI, argues for a different future. He thinks the future of work involves collaboration between AI and human skill, in ways that can lead to better work outcomes, as well as greater general prosperity.

Affective computing — the computer-science field’s term for such attempts to read, simulate, predict, and stimulate human emotion with software — doesn't capture existing emotional states so much as posit them, establishing norms for what feelings "should" look like. Emotion detection will force us to perform these outward signs to avoid disciplinary actions from automated systems.  Read more essays on living with technology at reallifemag.com and follow us on Twitter @_reallifemag.

Brooklyn Law Professor Frank Pasquale joins the WBI show to discuss his latest book, New Laws of Robotics: Defending Human Expertise in the Age of AI. What are the challenges and promises of serving on the federal health committee as an expert on the legal frameworks of emerging technologies during 45’s reign? How do we reconcile the need to prioritize human expertise while acknowledging the harm often committed by professionals against marginalized communities? We discuss these question and more on the latest episode of the We Be Imagining Podcast. Please send us your questions and comments at WeBeImagining@gmail.com.Host: J. Khadijah Abdurahman, Ilan MandelMusic: Drew LewisRecommendations:Competition is Killing Us; How Big Business is Killing Our Society and Planet- and What To Do About ItCompetition Overdose by How Free Market Mythology Transformed Us from Citizen Kings to Market Servants By Maurice E. Stucke, Ariel EzrachiLPE Project - The Law and Political Economy Project

Studies suggesting judicial bias have made machine learning and artificial intelligence alluring to many. There is a great deal of marketing and disruptive technology in the field of legal innovation, however there is a parallel movement which seeks to achieve algorithmic accountability, and actively critiques these innovations. How do we reconcile the two? Frank Pasquale University of of Maryland Law Legal Ethics in the Age of Law & Tech, Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto, March 24, 2017

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In this episode I am speaking to Frank Pasquale who is Professor of Law at the University of Maryland. We talk about his work which has addressed the impact of big data and algorithmic processing on reputation, search and finance. We discussed how the data we generate an hour every day lives has enabled a drive to assess, rank and judge ourselves and others. He offer some insight as to why and how credit rating agencies have become so powerful and what impact they have. Frank also warns that critiques of data driven analysis and ranking can often just lead to more surveillance.We talk about the how big data can create discrimination as conclusions from one type of data can be applied to other areas of our lives. Frank stresses The importance of keeping human input into rankings and ratings. You can follow Frank on Twitter @FrankPasquale and see his website at
http://www.frankpasquale.com/
The abstract to Frank's book The Black Box Society: The Secret Algorithms that Control Money and Information is here: https://digitalcommons.law.umaryland.edu/books/96/ You can listen to the episode on the Anchor site and download or subscribe on iTunes, Spotify, Google Podcasts or wherever you usually get podcasts.

This is the final episode in a special series in partnership with The Federation, exploring ethics in tech. In this episode, we talk about 'Functional Sovereignty' with Frank Pasquale. He talks to us about the concepts in his book The Black Box Society: The Secret Algorithms Behind Money & Information   About Frank: Frank Pasquale's scholarship and public speaking translates complex law and policy into accessible writing and presentations. His research agenda focuses on challenges posed to information law by rapidly changing technology. He is presently researching a book on automation and the professions. Frank has testified before the Judiciary Committee of the House of Representatives, appearing with the General Counsels of Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo. He has also presented before a Department of Health & Human Services/Federal Trade Commission Roundtable (on personal health records) and panels of the National Academy of Sciences (on ubiquitous sensor networks and the IoT). Frank has been a Visiting Fellow at Princeton’s Center for Information Technology, and a Visiting Professor at Yale Law School and Cardozo Law School. He served as the Schering-Plough Professor in Health Care Regulation and Enforcement at Seton Hall University. Frank is an Affiliate Fellow of Yale Law School’s Information Society Project. Frank has been named to the Advisory Boards of the Electronic Privacy Information Center, the Data Competition Institute, Patient Privacy Rights, and the Journal of Legal Education. He has blogged at Concurring Opinions since 2006. His work has been published by the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Chronicle of Higher Education, Boston Review, and many other media outlets.     Hosted by Rebecca Rae-Evans (@rebeccawho), featuring pod regular Greg Ashton (@grgashton)   Produced by @paul_yakabovski   Get in touch:Twitter: @techforgoodliveInstagram: techforgoodliveEmail: hello@techforgood.live  

Algorithms are rating you in ways you have no knowledge of, or control over. Big Tech and Wall Street are joining forces for just this reason. On this Techtonic, Mark interviews Frank Pasquale, law professor at University of Maryland, about his book "The Black Box Society: The Secret Algorithms That Control Money and Information." Tomaš Dvořák - "Game Boy Tune" - Machinarium Soundtrack - "Mark's intro" - "Interview with Frank Pasquale" - "Your calls and comments 201-209-9368" Color Kings - "Black Box" - Black Box https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/82516

Algorithms are rating you in ways you have no knowledge of, or control over. Big Tech and Wall Street are joining forces for just this reason. On this Techtonic, Mark interviews Frank Pasquale, law professor at University of Maryland, about his book "The Black Box Society: The Secret Algorithms That Control Money and Information." Tomaš Dvořák - "Game Boy Tune" - Machinarium Soundtrack - "Mark's intro" - "Interview with Frank Pasquale" - "Your calls and comments 201-209-9368" Color Kings - "Black Box" - Black Box http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/82516

Joe becomes the guest guest and Mike Madison the guest host, as we talk about Joe's new research into the web of law and what citations tell us about what law means. As one might expect for a show which is ostensibly about legal theory but actually, as all good argunauts know, an extended meditation on Being Joe, this is a very special episode of Oral Argument. This show’s links: Joe Miller's faculty profile (http://www.law.uga.edu/profile/joseph-s-miller) and writing (https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=104702) Mike Madison’s website (http://madisonian.net/home/), writing (http://madisonian.net/home/?page_id=85), and blog (http://madisonian.net) Joseph Miller, Law's Semantic Self-Portrait: Discerning Doctrine with Co-Citation Networks and Keywords (https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3212131) Joseph Miller, Charting Supreme Court Patent Law, Near and Far (https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3125510); Joseph Miller, Which Supreme Court Cases Influenced Recent Supreme Court IP Decisions? A Citation Study (https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3012262) Charles Barzun, Three Forms of Legal Pragmatism (https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3178155) Andrew Green and Albert Yoon, Triaging the Law: Developing the Common Law on the Supreme Court of India (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jels.12161) Frank Pasquale, A Rule of Persons, Not Machines: The Limits of Legal Automation (https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3135549) James Scott, Seeing Like a State (https://books.google.com/books?id=PqcPCgsr2u0C&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false) Special Guest: Mike Madison.

This episode welcomes Frank Pasquale to discuss The Black Box Society. We explore Frank’s academic journey, and how black box technologies – technologies which the public cannot evaluate or understand – are reshaping society. We cover, among other topics, Big Data profiling, technology in the schools, copyright in the digital era, democratic participation in a complex information society and the regulation of Big Tech corporations. Frank Pasquale is Professor of Law at the University of Maryland. He is an affiliate fellow at Yale’s Information Society Project (ISP) and Vermont Law School’s New Economy Law Center (NELC). Pasquale is an expert on the law of artificial intelligence, algorithms, and machine learning. He has been recognized as one of the ten most cited scholars in health law in the United States.

Frank Pasquale, Nicolas Terry and their Guests discuss the significant health law and policy issues of the week. Show notes are at TWIHL.com.

Algorithms. People talk about them all the time, particularly in relation to markets. But who actually designs them, and what do they do? On this week's episode of the Odd Lots podcast, we speak with Frank Pasquale, a law professor at the University of Maryland, and the author of "The Black Box Society: The Secret Algorithms That Control Money and Information." Pasquale, who has been following the growing importance of algorithms for several years explains the various ways they're shaping our life without us being aware of it.

Frank Pasquale, Legal Ethics in the Age of Law & Tech (Mar 24, '17) by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto

A workshop at CRASSH on the uses of number, in and against the public interest: past, present and future. Session Two - Liz McFall, Jonathan Gray and Frank Pasquale This event is organised by the ‘Technology and Democracy’ project and will bring historical and contemporary perspectives to bear on the question of how the public interest is to be determined in a world increasingly under the rule of number, data and quantification. Speakers: Will Davies (Goldsmiths) Glen O'Hara (Oxford Brookes) Liz McFall (OU) Jonathan Gray (Bath) Frank Pasquale (Maryland) Collecting information about the public has often caused controversy, but it has usually been understood as a form of exchange. As this information takes increasingly numerical form, the nature of this quid pro quo – who gets what from the exchange – has become more and more opaque. Who has the right to collect and organise public information, to control access to it now and into the future? As a greater number of private entities accumulate statistical information, this workshop aims to investigate the shifting boundary of the public and the private spheres. We will ask how the processes of counting and enumerating people have helped to produce specific political forms of government and economic forms of business. And specifically, we will examine the ways in which claims of a public interest have been used to justify the collection of such information, from censuses to digital data trails. Panellists, speakers and respondents will approach the question using case studies from the history of insurance and medical surveillance, neoliberalism and official statistics, as well as electoral political strategies.

We are being told a simple story about the future of work: if a machine can record and imitate what you do, you will be replaced by it. Christened a “fourth industrial revolution,” a narrative of mass unemployment is now gripping policymakers. It envisions human workers rendered superfluous by ever-more-powerful software, robots, and predictive analytics. Substituting robots for workers may seem like an impossibly grandiose ambition. But its main problem is not impracticality—rather, it is not nearly grand enough. It is a vision of society built on a narrow consumerism. We don’t exist simply to be served. We want to serve others, to make a contribution, and to find some meaning in our daily activities. Another approach is possible—indeed, plausible. It is a future of robots and software complementing work, to make it better. I call technology that improves workers’ skills and opportunities “humane automation,” to be distinguished from other forms of technical advance that are indifferent to—or undermine—workers’ skills and wages. Fortunately, forms of humane automation are already taking root in many fields. As consumers and citizens, we can encourage this more inclusive and sustainable path. Enlightened policymakers and professionals can also re-channel the flow of commerce to respect, rather than replace, human initiative. Frank Pasquale, JD, MPhil is an expert on the law and policy of big data, predictive analytics, artificial intelligence, and algorithms. He has advised government and business leaders on the health care, internet, and finance industries, including the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the U.S. House Judiciary Committee, the Federal Trade Commission, the Council of Institutional Investors, the Capitol Forum, and the European Commission. He has spoken on his book, The Black Box Society (Harvard University Press, 2015) at academic and policy venues around the world, including law, computer science, humanities, and social science departments. His work has recently been translated into Chinese, French, German, Korean, Hungarian, and Serbian, and he is routinely quoted in global media outlets. He has been recognised as one of the ten most-cited health law scholars in the United States. His current book project is tentatively titled Laws of Robotics: Revitalizing the Professions in an Era of Automation (under contract to Harvard University Press). He is a currently a Visiting Fellow on the Technology and Democracy Project in CRASSH , an affiliate fellow at the Yale Information Society Project, and a fellow at the New Economy Law Center. He has served as a visiting fellow at Princeton’s Center for Information Technology Policy.

We made a return to the annual Tech Law Institute meeting in Atlanta and recorded a live episode about self-driving cars. We talked optimism, pessimism, political valence, regulatory challenges, federalism, trolley problems, and more. This show’s links: Oral Argument 80: We’ll Do It LIVE! NHTSA, Federal Automated Vehicles Policy RAND, Autonomous Vehicle Technology: A Guide for Policymakers Duncan Black, some posts on self-driving cars: Not Gonna Work, No One Will Listen to Me, Spot the Key Phrase, "the revolutionary transportation technology”…. Chris Martin and Joe Ryan, Super-Cheap Driverless Cabs to Kick Mass Transit to the Curb Tesla, All Tesla Cars Being Produced Now Have Full Self-Driving Hardware (announcement includes a vide demonstration) About Tesla’s Autopilot feature (also Tesla’s page on Autopilot) Alex Davies, Everyone Wants a Level 5 Self-Driving Car – Here’s What That Means Oral Argument 102: Precautionary Federalism (guest Sarah Light) Michael Dorf, Should Self-Driving Cars Be Mandatory? Oral Argument 41: Sense-Think-Act (guest Ryan Calo) Oral Argument 70: No Drones in the Park (guest Frank Pasquale) About trolley problems Megan Barber, Who Should Driverless Cars Save: Pedestrians or Passengers? Frank Pasquale, Get off the Trolley Problem Jules Coleman and William Holahan, Review of Guido Calabresi and Philip Bobbitt’s Tragic Choices

A special live-to-tape dig through the mailbag. This show’s links: Christian’s Modern American Legal Theory audio downloads (paste this into your podcast app: http://www.hydratext.com/malt2016?format=rss) Episodes relevant to driverless cars: No Drones in the Park (guest Frank Pasquale and Sense-Think-Act (guest Ryan Calo) Jonathan Masur’s episode: All over the Gander SustainAtlanta Oral Argument 74: Minimum Curiosity (guest Amanda Frost) More Perfect (a side project of Radiolab) Oral Argument 77: Jackasses Are People Too (guest Adama Kolber) Oral Argument 44: Serial Sarah Koenig, Judge Orderns New Trial for Adnan Syed (containing a link and embedded version of the opinion and order granting Syed a new trial) Oral Argument 69: Contaminated Evidence (guest Brandon Garrett); Oral Argument 48: Legal Truth (guest Lisa Kern Griffin); Oral Argument 45: Sacrifice Kathryn Rubino, Did Georgia Just Poison Bar Exam Test Takers?; Oral Argument 61: Minimum Competence (guest Derek Muller) Oral Argument 21: Kind of a Hellscape (guest Brigham Daniels); Oral Argument 63: A Struggle with Every Single One (guest Jessica Owley)

Get ready for one of my common (but not yet patented - too abstract?) barrages of new shows over the next few days. That's what weekends are for - catching up on Hearsay Culture postings! So,to quote XTC - appropriately in this insane election cycle and as one bulwark against the ignorance enveloping our political process - let's begin! I'm pleased to post the first of the Spring 2016 shows, Show #252 from April 22, with Prof. Ben Peters of the University of Tulsa, author of How Not to Network a Nation: The Uneasy History of the Soviet Internet. Ben has written a fascinating, exquisitely written and thoroughly researched and contextualized history of the repeated failures over 30+ years to create a Soviet Internet. Not merely a history, Ben's analysis and writing shines when he places the ebbs and tides of its development in the broader socio-political environment in which a few brave pioneers were operating. That the Soviet Internet never developed reveals far more about the nature of a closed but competitive administrative state than it does about the genius underlying failed efforts. In our interview, we discussed both the intuitive and counter-intuitive modern insights borne from Ben's meticulous writing and research. Thanks to Hearsay Culture repeat guest Frank Pasquale for affording the opportunity to meet Ben at Yale Law's extraordinary Unlocking the Black Box conference in April, and I hope that all of you enjoy the interview as much as I did! {Hearsay Culture is a talk show on KZSU-FM, Stanford, 90.1 FM, hosted by Center for Internet & Society Resident Fellow David S. Levine. The show includes guests and focuses on the intersection of technology and society. How is our world impacted by the great technological changes taking place? Each week, a different sphere is explored. For more information, please go to http://hearsayculture.com.}

Our main topic is fair use, the engine of so much cultural reuse and advancement. We’re joined by one of the doctrine’s most interesting scholars, Mike Madison. But the conversation spans: Joe’s telecomm cursing issues (0:00:36), FBiPhones and the Apple-FBI imbroglio (0:09:26), and fair use (0:28:27), including discussion of Mike’s Big Idea of social practices (0:53:03), reverse engineering, parody, video tapes, and much more. This show’s links: Mike Madison’s website, writing, and blog FCC v. Pacifica Foundation FCC v. Fox (Fox II) (containing a link to Fox I) This American Life 267: Propriety (It’s all good, but the discussion of the legal issue in Fox is at about 19:15.) Amy Davidson, The Dangerous All Writs Act Precedent in the Apple Encryption Case John Gruber, The Next Step in iPhone Impregnability Oral Argument 80: We’ll Do It LIVE! Oral Argument 42: Shotgun Aphasia (guest Orin Kerr) Orin Kerr, An Equilibrium-Adjustment Theory of the Fourth Amendment Apple’s motion to vacate the order to assist the FBI Riley v. California (and see Orin Kerr’s post about the case shortly after it was decided About Fair Use Week Ty v. Publications Int’l (Judge Posner, giving an explanation of market substitution and fair use); see also Richard Posner, When Is Parody Fair Use? Suntrust Bank v. Houghton Mifflin Co. Key, lower-court cases deciding whether university course packets qualify for fair use protection: Basic Books Inc. v. Kinko’s Graphics Corp., Princeton Univ. v. Michigan Document Services, and, most recently, Cambridge University Press v. Patton David Fagundes, Market Harm, Market Help, and Fair Use Kickstarter page for Star Trek: Axanar, an independent Star Trek film (includes the twenty-minute video Prelude to Axanar) Ryan Reed, Crowdfunded 'Star Trek' Movie Facing Copyright Infringement Lawsuit; Eriq Gardner, 'Star Trek' Fans Want Paramount, CBS to Do Better Job Explaining Franchise to Court See also the unrelated and rather amazing Star Trek New Voyages, a nonprofit web series; and Paul Post, A ‘Star Trek’ Dream, Spread From Upstate New York A googol Statement of the Librarian of Congress Relating to Section 1201 Rulemaking; about anti-circumvention exemptions Electronic Frontier Foundation, Victory for Users: Librarian of Congress Renews and Expands Protections for Fair Uses Michael Madison, A Pattern-Oriented Approach to Fair Use Sony Corp. v. Universal City Studios Joel Hruska, How Sony’s Betamax Made YouTube and Twitch Possible Sega v. Accolade Frank Pasquale, Toward an Ecology of Intellectual Property: Lessons from Environmental Ecology for Valuing Copyright’s Commons Randy Picker, Closing the Xbox Sony Computer Entertainment v. Connectix Corp. MGM v. Grokster Jonathan Zittrain, The Generative Internet Horace Dediu, Seeing What’s Next (featuring a wonderful graph showing the adoption rates of various technologies, including the VCR); see also Derek Thompson, The 100-Year March of Technology in One Graph Eduardo Peñalver and Sonia Katyal, Property Outlaws: How Squatters, Pirates, and Protesters Improve the Law of Ownership (see also this article-length treatment) Eben Moglen, Freeing the Mind: Free Software and the Death of Proprietary Culture (“It is wrong to ask, ‘What is the incentive for people to create?’ It's an emergent property of connected human minds that they do create.”) Jennifer Rothman, The Questionable Use of Custom in Intellectual Property Michael Madison, Madisonian Fair Use Special Guest: Mike Madison.

First: oil can, a hymn, and feedback, including a discussion of the web and so-called social obligations. Is a hot dog a sandwich, and is it murder if your group of trapped spelunkers decides, unanimously, to draw lots and eat the loser? We end this part of the conversation (part two next episode and part three at a later date) there, just by asking the second question. This show’s links: Vienna Teng, The Hymn of Acxiom (“Leave your life open. You don’t have to hide. . . . Let our formulas find your soul.”) About Acxiom Peter Bright, Bob Ross Coming Back to Twitch with Weekly Broadcasts and Annual Marathons Shia LaBeouf’s #ALLMYMOVIES Hold Up! Oral Argument 45: Sacrifice Sindell v. Abbott Laboratories (DES litigation imposing liability based on market share without regard to individual proof of causation) William Baude pronouncing his name in what is also a fascinating talk on originalism Oral Argument 80: We’ll Do It LIVE! About the Lynx browser Judge John Hodgman’s settled law and print Oral Argument 70: No Drones in the Park (guest Frank Pasquale) Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Path of the Law

We start with some feedback and thoughts on the Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, criminal law, and Christian’s brush with Upstream Color greatness. Also Joe’s thank-you notes. Then we’re joined by Mary Ellen O’Connell to talk about international law, weapons, hacking, Stuxnet, war, and killer robots. Mary Ellen maintains that the law we have is perfectly capable of dealing with what seem like new challenges. This show’s links: Mary Ellen O’Connell’s faculty profile and writing Danielle Allen, Our Declaration The Declaration of Independence Upstream Color Dan Goodin, Meet “badBIOS,” the Mysterious Mac and PC Malware that Jumps Airgaps Oral Argument 70: No Drones in the Park (guest Frank Pasquale) Mary Ellen O’Connell, 21st Century Arms Control Challenges: Drones, Cyber Weapons, Killer Robots, and WMDs About Stuxnet Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations, including Article 51, which Mary Ellen references Mary Ellen O’Connell, Banning Autonomous Killing Special Guest: Mary Ellen O'Connell.

We open the burgeoning mailbag. And oh what a bounty! Side A: 1. Georgia’s assertion of copyright over its annotated statutes. 2. Law school application, rankings, and preparation. 3. The utility for law of having a Ph.D. 4. Substantive due process and Lochner. 5. Would law school be better without the study of the Supreme Court or constitutional law? Side B: 6. Voting rights and proportional representation. 7. Whether we’ve had a fair discussion of the death penalty. 8. What makes legal writing good or bad? 9. Other podcasts. 10. Race and the law. 11. The utilitarian case for manual override of driverless cars. 12. Facebook’s ability to create “bad” desires and preferences. Drugs and entertainment. 13. The rogue Kentucky clerk and the difference between civil disobedience and sabotage or revolution. This show’s links: Oral Argument on Twitter and on Facebook About Carl Malamud Georgia Accuses Public Records Activist of Information “Terrorism” Episode 68: Listen to My Full Point and Episode 12: Heart of Darkness Episode 62: Viewer Mail Episode 30: A Filled Milk Caste Episode 66: You’re Never Going to Get It All Done (guest Kareem Creighton) and Kareem Creighton’s tweet to us about this question Chris Elmendorf, Making Sense of Section 2: Of Biased Votes, Unconstitutional Elections, and Common Law Statutes Episode 56: Cracking and Packing (guest Lori Ringhand) Episode 67: Monstrous Acts (guest Josh Lee) Callins v. Collins (Scalia’s concurrence citing the brutality of a murder in a case in which the defendant was later proved innocent) Danielle Allen, Our Declaration; Robert Cover, Violence and the Word ; Jedediah Purdy, After Nature: A Politics for the Anthropocene Undisclosed: The State v. Adnan Syed, a podcast recommended to us Episode 69: Contaminated Evidence (guest Brandon Garrett); see also Episode 45: Sacrifice, Episode 64: Protect and Serve (guest Seth Stoughton) The Our National Conversation about Conversations about Race podcast Episode 70: No Drones in the Park (guest Frank Pasquale) Episode 72: The Guinea Pig Problem (guest Michelle Meyer) A youtube of David Foster Wallace talking about drugs and entertainment in Infinite Jest (2m23s) Anthony Kreis’s tweet about civil disobedience

Drones and robots are or soon will be watching you, driving you, delivering to you, and maybe even trying to kill you. They’re loud, nosy, deadly, useful, safe, and dangerous. There are many different kinds of them and many different kinds of us. What should we do when, say, a man shoots a camera-bearing drone out of the sky above his property? Or when a creditor remotely shuts down your car when you’re behind on your payments but, unfortunately, while you’re on the highway? For some answers and more questions, we chat with delightfully deep-thinking Frank Pasquale. This show’s links: Frank Pasquale’s faculty profile and writing Frank Pasquale, The Black Box Society Oral Argument 41: Sense-Think-Act (guest Ryan Calo) Robot or Not?, a podcast of one to two-minute episodes Jeff John Roberts, Man Arrested for Shooting $1,800 Drone Won’t Apologize, Cites Privacy DJI, drone purveyor, which company’s name Christian managed to mangle, Joe-style Michael Froomkin and Zak Colangelo, Self-Defense Against Robots and Drones Frank Pasquale, Air Traffic Control for Drones Jacque v. Sternberg Homes, Inc. Desnick v. ABC United States v. Causby Hinman v. Pacific Air Transport See, e.g., Field v. Google (on copyright claims against Google for search results) Margot Kaminsky, Drone Federalism: Civilian Drones and the Things They Carry Thomas Frey, 55 Jobs of the Future Timothy Lee, Amazon Has a Plan for Thousands of Drones to Fill the Sky Yoko Kubota, Google Reshoots Japan Views after Privacy Complaints The FAA’s interpretive rules for recreational drones (line-of-sight and less than 400 feet, among other restrictions) and proposed rules for commercial drones (including weight limitations, line-of-sight, daylight-only, less than 500 feet, and more) Foster v. Svenson (finding no statutory privacy right to prevent artistic show of photographs taken unsuspecting through open windows via telephoto lens) AP, Enrique Iglesias Recovering After Fingers Sliced at Concert, video Patrick Hubbard, 'Sophisticated Robots': Balancing Liability, Regulation, and Innovation 99% Invisible 170: Children of the Magenta (Automation Paradox, pt. 1); see also part 2 Turn Your Key, Sir! Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone Frank Pasquale, Do Corporations Enjoy a 2nd Amendment Right to Drones? Jathan Sadowski and Frank Pasquale, The Spectrum of Control: A Social Theory of the Smart City Jathan Sadowski and Frank Pasquale, Creditors Use New Devices to Put Squeeze on Debtors Dale Carrico, We Are the Killer Robots; see also Dale Carrico, Natality, Tech “Disruption,” and Killer Robots Mary Ellen O’Connell, 21st Century Arms Control Challenges: Drones, Cyber Weapons, Killer Robots, and WMDs Samuel Bowles and Arjun Jayadev, One Nation Under Guard; see also Samuel Bowles and Arjun Jayadev, Garrison America Frank Pasquale and Glyn Cashwell, Four Futures of Legal Automation Special Guest: Frank Pasquale.

This week's podcast comes from the closing session of our recent Digital Summit with Vanity Fair. See intelligencesquared.com for more information about the summit. To many the hopes we had for the internet when it first emerged have been smashed by the revelations of government surveillance of our personal data – with the cooperation of the tech giants who know and record our every move online. But to others the technological advances of the last 20 years have opened up an unprecedented world of abundance. It’s not just as consumers of physical goods that we have benefited, but as users of information from books, websites and communication with people on the other side of the world. Is the dream a failed one, or still to come? We were joined by a panel of experts to debate the motion "The internet is a failed utopia". Arguing for the motion were Silicon Valley’s favourite controversialist Andrew Keen and big data and financial algorithms expert Frank Pasquale. Arguing against the motion were Founder... See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Lesbian lives in Russia: Laurie Taylor talks to Francesca Stella, Research Fellow in Sociology at the University of Glasgow, and author of a study which explores the changing nature of same sex relationships amongst women since the demise of state communism. From the metropolis to the provinces, she finds evidence of women negotiating visible, as well as closeted lives. Also, is 'big data' leading to the pervasive 24/7 surveillance of every moment of our lives? Frank Pasquale, Professor of Law at the University of Maryland, argues that unlimited data collection is having unforeseen and risky consequences. Producer: Jayne Egerton.

Maryland Carey Law Professor (and author of Black Box Society) Frank Pasquale exposes how powerful interests abuse secrecy for profit and explains ways to rein them in. Demanding transparency is only the first step. An intelligible society would assure that key decisions of its most important firms are fair, nondiscriminatory, and open to criticism. Silicon Valley and Wall Street need to accept as much accountability as they impose on other.

Hidden algorithms make many of the decisions that affect significant areas of society: the economy, personal and organizational reputation, the promotion of information, etc. These complex formulas, or processes, are thought by many to be unbiased and impartial and, therefore, good for automated decision-making. Yet, recent scandals, as well as information uncovered by researchers and investigative reporters have uncovered that these algorithms may not be as neutral as believed. At the same time, there is no mechanism, legal or otherwise, that would force organizations to make these hidden processes transparent for evaluation. In his new book, The Black Box Society: The Secret Algorithms That Control Money and Information (Harvard University Press, 2015), Frank Pasquale, a professor of law at the University of Maryland, and affiliate fellow at Yale Law School’s Information Society Project, explores the significant influence that hidden processes have on finance, search, and reputation. Pasquale examines the increasing corporate, and government, surveillance of consumers, and the incongruity between the secrecy allowed to corporations in comparison to that allowed to regular citizens. In so doing, he calls for greater oversight, transparency, and enforcement to help restore organizational trust and to combat the possible deleterious effects that technical secrecy may have. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hidden algorithms make many of the decisions that affect significant areas of society: the economy, personal and organizational reputation, the promotion of information, etc. These complex formulas, or processes, are thought by many to be unbiased and impartial and, therefore, good for automated decision-making. Yet, recent scandals, as well as information uncovered by researchers and investigative reporters have uncovered that these algorithms may not be as neutral as believed. At the same time, there is no mechanism, legal or otherwise, that would force organizations to make these hidden processes transparent for evaluation. In his new book, The Black Box Society: The Secret Algorithms That Control Money and Information (Harvard University Press, 2015), Frank Pasquale, a professor of law at the University of Maryland, and affiliate fellow at Yale Law School’s Information Society Project, explores the significant influence that hidden processes have on finance, search, and reputation. Pasquale examines the increasing corporate, and government, surveillance of consumers, and the incongruity between the secrecy allowed to corporations in comparison to that allowed to regular citizens. In so doing, he calls for greater oversight, transparency, and enforcement to help restore organizational trust and to combat the possible deleterious effects that technical secrecy may have. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hidden algorithms make many of the decisions that affect significant areas of society: the economy, personal and organizational reputation, the promotion of information, etc. These complex formulas, or processes, are thought by many to be unbiased and impartial and, therefore, good for automated decision-making. Yet, recent scandals, as well as information uncovered by researchers and investigative reporters have uncovered that these algorithms may not be as neutral as believed. At the same time, there is no mechanism, legal or otherwise, that would force organizations to make these hidden processes transparent for evaluation. In his new book, The Black Box Society: The Secret Algorithms That Control Money and Information (Harvard University Press, 2015), Frank Pasquale, a professor of law at the University of Maryland, and affiliate fellow at Yale Law School’s Information Society Project, explores the significant influence that hidden processes have on finance, search, and reputation. Pasquale examines the increasing corporate, and government, surveillance of consumers, and the incongruity between the secrecy allowed to corporations in comparison to that allowed to regular citizens. In so doing, he calls for greater oversight, transparency, and enforcement to help restore organizational trust and to combat the possible deleterious effects that technical secrecy may have. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hidden algorithms make many of the decisions that affect significant areas of society: the economy, personal and organizational reputation, the promotion of information, etc. These complex formulas, or processes, are thought by many to be unbiased and impartial and, therefore, good for automated decision-making. Yet, recent scandals, as well as... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/systems-and-cybernetics

Hidden algorithms make many of the decisions that affect significant areas of society: the economy, personal and organizational reputation, the promotion of information, etc. These complex formulas, or processes, are thought by many to be unbiased and impartial and, therefore, good for automated decision-making. Yet, recent scandals, as well as information uncovered by researchers and investigative reporters have uncovered that these algorithms may not be as neutral as believed. At the same time, there is no mechanism, legal or otherwise, that would force organizations to make these hidden processes transparent for evaluation. In his new book, The Black Box Society: The Secret Algorithms That Control Money and Information (Harvard University Press, 2015), Frank Pasquale, a professor of law at the University of Maryland, and affiliate fellow at Yale Law School’s Information Society Project, explores the significant influence that hidden processes have on finance, search, and reputation. Pasquale examines the increasing corporate, and government, surveillance of consumers, and the incongruity between the secrecy allowed to corporations in comparison to that allowed to regular citizens. In so doing, he calls for greater oversight, transparency, and enforcement to help restore organizational trust and to combat the possible deleterious effects that technical secrecy may have. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I am thrilled to post Show # 223, November 6, my interview with Prof. Frank Pasquale of the University of Maryland School of Law, author of The Black Box Society: Technologies of Search, Reputation, and Finance. I am an unabashed fan and admirer of Frank's work, and find his ability to annotate blog posts to be the gold standard. So this was a difficult interview for me, simply because I was tempted to use the classic professorial one-word prompt "discuss," and leave the microphone open for Frank to deliver a monologue for 50 minutes. Alas, I did not do that. Frank's book discusses the challenges inherent in commercial secrecy from a information access and democracy perspective. Focusing on algorithmic computing, he runs through the opacity of computing and its impact on the average consumer in areas ranging from finance to Internet searches. We discussed these challenging issues and potential solutions in our discussion. These critical issues deserve the attention that Frank pays to them, and I hope that you enjoy the discussion as much as I did. {Hearsay Culture is a talk show on KZSU-FM, Stanford, 90.1 FM, hosted by Center for Internet & Society Resident Fellow David S. Levine. The show includes guests and focuses on the intersection of technology and society. How is our world impacted by the great technological changes taking place? Each week, a different sphere is explored. For more information, please go to http://hearsayculture.com.}

The Social Network Show weclomes Laura Davis of Mediaplanet and Frank Pasquale, Law Professor at the University of Maryland, to discuss online safety and violence prevention. Original Air Date: 8/8/13.

The Social Network Show weclomes Sandy Garossino of Red Hood Project and Frank Pasquale, Law Professor at the University of Maryland, to discuss cyber bullying and online safety. Original Air Date: 7/27/13.

A talk show on KZSU-FM, Stanford, 90.1 FM, hosted by Center for Internet & Society Resident Fellow David S. Levine. The show includes guests and focuses on the intersection of technology and society. How is our world impacted by the great technological changes taking place? Each week, a different sphere is explored. This week, David interviews Profs. Danielle Citron of University of Maryland School of Law and Frank Pasquale of Seton Hall School of Law discussing Fusion Centers. For more information, please go to http://hearsayculture.com.

A talk show on KZSU-FM, Stanford, 90.1 FM, hosted by Center for Internet & Society Resident Fellow David S. Levine. The show includes guests and focuses on the intersection of technology and society. How is our world impacted by the great technological changes taking place? Each week, a different sphere is explored. This week, David interviews Prof. Frank Pasquale of Seton Hall Law School regarding search engine regulation.