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Erica Johnstone

@ericajstone

Partner @rcjlawgroup. CoFounder @withoutconsent.

 San Francisco
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Joined March 2009
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Ryan Calo@rcalo8 Dec 2021
How do you solve a problem like misinformation? science.org/doi/10.1126/scia… @ScienceAdvances

How do you solve a problem like misinformation?

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Woke up today and want to say you suck, @Twitter. My client's extremely malicious ex was sentenced to federal prison for five years partly for the stalking on this very platform and yet you still keep his account alive. And your counsel at @PerkinsCoieLLP give zero f*cks.
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Evelyn Douek@evelyndouek14 Jun 2021
Everything is a content moderation problem technologyreview.com/2021/06…
Anti-vaxxers are weaponizing Yelp to punish bars that require vaccine proof

Anti-vaxxers are weaponizing Yelp to punish bars that require vaccine proof

Negative spam reviews are destroying bars and restaurants as they attempt to re-open safely.

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Kashmir Hill
@kashhill10 Jun 2021
Google has a new concept called "known victims" for revenge porn & people serially attacked on slander sites. Once a person requests removal of these results from a search of their name, Google will automatically suppress similar content from resurfacing. nytimes.com/2021/06/10/techn…
Google Seeks to Break Vicious Cycle of Online Slander (Published 2021)

Google Seeks to Break Vicious Cycle of Online Slander (Published 2021)

In response to Times articles, the search giant is changing its algorithm, part of a major shift in how Google polices harmful content.

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On trial's eve. Thrilled for our client. We overcame 5 MTDs, came back from dead w/ a motion for reargument and judge reversing himself, overcame 3 MSJs, preserving qualified immunity and punitives. G-d bless our brilliant co-counsel at @VegasMaggieEsq courthousenews.com/anaheim-s…
Anaheim Settles Lawsuit by Woman Framed in 'Rape Fantasy' Case

Anaheim Settles Lawsuit by Woman Framed in 'Rape Fantasy' Case

The now-former wife of the framed woman’s ex-fiancée falsely claimed to authorities that men were sent to her home to assault and rape the married couple.

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Kashmir Hill
@kashhill18 Mar 2021
After I reported the existence of Clearview AI in January 2020, the company's world exploded: lawsuits, international investigations, letters from senators. I've been talking to company CEO Hoan Ton-That through it all for this @nytmag cover story: nytimes.com/interactive/2021…
What Happens When Our Faces Are Tracked Everywhere We Go? (Published 2021)

What Happens When Our Faces Are Tracked Everywhere We Go? (Published 2021)

When a secretive start-up scraped the internet to build a facial-recognition tool, it tested a legal and ethical limit — and blew the future of privacy in America wide open.

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Brittan Heller@brittanheller6 Feb 2021
What is the connection between State-sponsored disinformation and online harassment? Well, closer than you'd think. See how this works and get 3 suggestions for how to fix it in my latest article in the Colorado Journal of Law and Technology. ctlj.colorado.edu/?page_id=1…
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Carrie Goldberg
@cagoldberglaw5 Feb 2021
Somewhere on this platform is my tweet series with all the form letters from the socials saying they have no duty to preserve.
Ben Smith (@semaforben) profile pictureBen Smith
@semaforben4 Feb 2021
Dominion just sent letters to the social platforms asking them to preserve posts, and offered a glimpse at their target list:
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Jameel Jaffer@JameelJaffer3 Feb 2021
Canadian privacy commissioners say Clearview engaged in unlawful mass surveillance. They reject Clearview's effort to frame its business practices as "freedom of expression." priv.gc.ca/en/opc-news/news-… cc: @2ramyakrishnan @kashhill
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Kashmir Hill
@kashhill30 Jan 2021
I've been working on this internet horror story for months, but the people in it have been living it for more than a decade. nytimes.com/2021/01/30/techn…
A Vast Web of Vengeance (Published 2021)

A Vast Web of Vengeance (Published 2021)

Outrageous lies destroyed Guy Babcock’s online reputation. When he went hunting for their source, what he discovered was worse than he could have imagined.

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Matt Cagle@Matt_Cagle17 Nov 2020
ACLU v. Clearview could be one of the most consequential First Amendment cases of the digital age. This piece explains why Clearview's theory is bad for both privacy and free speech: slate.com/technology/2020/11…
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Elisa D'Amico@elisadamico19 Feb 2020
Spotlight on @endtherevenge & @CCRInitiative! @ma_franks
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@geekwire19 Feb 2020
Meet the attorneys fighting criminals who inflict pain by posting sexual images of their victims geekwire.com/2020/meet-attor…
Meet the attorneys fighting criminals who inflict pain by posting sexual images of their victims

Meet the attorneys fighting criminals who inflict pain by posting sexual images of their victims

A bunch of her sorority sisters were doing it, so it must have seemed like no big deal. The college women created accounts on a "sugar daddy" site where,

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.@ma_franks and @daniellecitron debunk section 230 misconceptions noting that (1) not all Internet activity is speech, (2) private actors are not government actors & (3) regulating online conduct will not inevitably result in less speech. Read more here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.…
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Kashmir Hill
@kashhill7 Feb 2020
While Clearview's app is extremely controversial, there are powerful use cases. We talked to child crime investigators who say it's an invaluable database of young people, allowing them to identify the victims in sexually exploitative videos/photos. nytimes.com/2020/02/07/busin…

Clearview’s Facial Recognition App Is Identifying Child Victims of Abuse (Published 2020)

Though a breakthrough for law enforcement, the technique could allow the little-known start-up to collect an extraordinarily sensitive set of data and images.

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Kate Klonick@Klonick30 Jan 2020
Also, I know many have pushed back on it, but this is a powerful example of the idea of "clickbait defamation" that @lessig raises. Headlines, memes, pictures are stand alone objects. Even reading that entire CNBC article you wouldn't *really* be clear about what the story was.
Kate Klonick (@Klonick) profile pictureKate Klonick@Klonick29 Jan 2020
Replying to @Klonick
In an incredible moment of irony, CNBC's headline about disinformation penalties was itself. . . misinformation. And it was a tremendous example of how modern headlines can proliferate poisonously wrong ideas. A few take-aways: 4/
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Facial recognition technology is racing ahead of privacy laws, creating the potential for abuse by the government, law enforcement, corporations, and bad actors. This is an area crying out for Congressional oversight and action.
Kashmir Hill (@kashhill) profile pictureKashmir Hill
@kashhill18 Jan 2020
The privacy paranoid among us have long worried that all of our online photos would be scraped to create a universal face recognition app. My friends, it happened and it’s here: nytimes.com/2020/01/18/techn…
The Secretive Company That Might End Privacy as We Know It (Published 2020)

The Secretive Company That Might End Privacy as We Know It (Published 2020)

A little-known start-up helps law enforcement match photos of unknown people to their online images — and “might lead to a dystopian future or something,” a backer says.

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Class-action lawsuit filed against controversial Clearview AI startup | ZDNet zdnet.com/article/class-acti…
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Elisa D'Amico@elisadamico22 Jan 2020
Standing room only to hear the inimitable @ma_franks speak about her book, in conversation with @daniellecitron at @BooksandBooks
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Kashmir Hill
@kashhill18 Jan 2020
The privacy paranoid among us have long worried that all of our online photos would be scraped to create a universal face recognition app. My friends, it happened and it’s here: nytimes.com/2020/01/18/techn…
The Secretive Company That Might End Privacy as We Know It (Published 2020)

The Secretive Company That Might End Privacy as We Know It (Published 2020)

A little-known start-up helps law enforcement match photos of unknown people to their online images — and “might lead to a dystopian future or something,” a backer says.

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Kyu Ho Youm@MarshallYoum26 Dec 2019
SCOTUS will review revenge porn law? More likely now. wapo.st/2smkj2T Consider IL S Ct, MN, VT & WI Ct App rulings; TX Ct Crim App reviewing TX law. @thedeannapaul's WP story on 1st A issues. @ma_franks, @AndrewKoppelman et al quoted. RECOMMENDED
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