The advent of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) in the new administration has dramatically shifted how the administrative state operates along a number of dimensions. Agencies are being directed to close, curtail operations, or lay off large portions of their workforce irrespective of their level of Congressional appropriations. Taxpayer and other personally identifiable data […]
March 19, 2025
NYU Law Forum—Regulating Social Media: Is it Lawful, Feasible, and Desirable?
This will be a pivotal year for technology regulation in the United States and around the world. The European Union is already regulating social media platforms based on perceived harms they cause. In the US, regulatory proposals at the federal level will likely include renewed efforts to repeal or reform Section 230 of the Communications […]
March 10, 2025
New NYU Tandon project to make NYC underground electricity network visible and even more reliable
Project receives U.S. Department of Energy funding to develop AI-assisted sensor data analytics for detecting hidden problems in urban underground electrical grids
March 5, 2025
NYU Law Forum—The Department of Justice Then and Now
Presidents have long pursued policy prerogatives through the Department of Justice, but traditionally there’s been a clear dividing line between those and DOJ enforcement decisions. At this Forum, experts who have served in senior positions in the White House and DOJ will assess the degree to which that has now changed. Among the topics they’ll […]
February 19, 2025
Respectfully Dissent: A Series on Agreeable Disagreement – The TikTok Ban
The TikTok ban: a legal congressional policy or an abridgment of our First Amendment rights (with a side of xenophobia)? The Supreme Court recently upheld Congress’s authority to ban TikTok from operating in the United States unless it cuts ties with its Chinese parent company. Does this assertion of Congressional power threaten fundamental freedoms—or constitute […]
December 13, 2024
AI & Prosecution: Mapping the Current and Future Roles of Artificial Intelligence in Prosecution
AI and Prosecution is a collaboration between the Vanderbilt Project on Prosecution Policy (VPOPP) and NYU Law’s Policing Project. Based on a comprehensive literature review and interviews with prosecutors nationwide, this report catalogs current AI applications in prosecution, explores future uses, assesses benefits and risks, and offers recommendations for effective governance of the use of […]
February 5, 2025
Latham & Watkins Forum: State AGs on Justice, Law, and Policy in the Trump Era
Acting individually and collectively, state attorneys general have long played a critical role in shaping law and policy and pursuing justice. How do states’ top law enforcers think about their roles as a new federal administration gets underway? What are their chief concerns? How do state AGs think about their relationship with the federal government? […]
January 30, 2025
Innovation Policy Colloquium: Ignacio Cofone
The Innovation Policy Colloquium focuses each year on different aspects of the law’s role in promoting creativity, invention, and new technology. This year, we will discuss the theoretical and practical challenges at the intersection of the regulation of data privacy (or data protection) and artificial intelligence, with attention to the current global sociotechnical situation.
December 10, 2024
AI Regulation Is Evolving Globally and Businesses Need to Keep Up
Beth George, Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Reiss Center on Law and Security at NYU School of Law, examines with Freshfield colleagues generative AI’s global impact in addition to how companies must understand how regulators approach AI.
January 23, 2025
Innovation Policy Colloquium: Talia Gillis
The Innovation Policy Colloquium focuses each year on different aspects of the law’s role in promoting creativity, invention, and new technology. This year, we will discuss the theoretical and practical challenges at the intersection of the regulation of data privacy (or data protection) and artificial intelligence, with attention to the current global socio-technical situation.
December 2, 2024
Fireside Chat with Jen Easterly
Jen Easterly, Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), was in conversation with Judi Germano, Adjunct Professor of Law and Distinguished/Senior Fellow, CCS/RCLS to discuss current issues in cybersecurity, key takeaways from Easterly’s role at CISA, and the intersection between national security and AI. This event was co-hosted by the NYU Center for Cybersecurity, Reiss […]
November 22, 2024
AI Agents in the Physical World: Balancing Safety & Performance
Balancing safety and performance is crucial to deploying autonomous agents in physical environments. In particular, autonomous racing is a domain that penalizes safe but conservative policies, highlighting the need for robust, adaptive strategies. Current approaches either make simplifying assumptions about other agents or lack robust mechanisms for online adaptation. In this talk we explore the […]
November 20, 2024
Fintech Speaker Series: A Fireside Chat featuring Dr. Andrew Ang
On Wednesday, November 20, NYU Stern’s Fubon Center for Technology, Business and Innovation will host a Fireside Chat featuring Dr. Andrew Ang, Managing Director and Head of Factors, Sustainable and Solutions (FS-Squared), BlackRock. The discussion is moderated by NYU Stern Professor Kathleen DeRose, Director of the Fubon Fintech initiative.
November 11, 2024
Honoring Those Who Serve: Veterans Leading Cyber Defense
Former Navy SEAL Wade Warden has traded in his tactical gear for a different kind of combat equipment: cybersecurity expertise. As he sits in NYU Law and NYU Tandon’s cutting-edge Master of Science in Cybersecurity Risk and Strategy program, he’s fighting a new kind of threat—one that can’t be seen through night vision goggles. “The […]
October 30, 2024
The U.S. Elections on a Global Stage
Please join the Reiss Center on Law and Security for a virtual discussion moderated by Reiss Center Non-Resident Senior Fellow Michael Wahid Hanna. An expert panel will discuss what the upcoming elections mean for the international community and global institutions, consider how global issues may inform the elections, and examine potential shifts in future U.S. […]
October 21, 2024
Has the AI Election Threat Materialized?
Co-sponsored by the Brennan Center for Justice, this virtual event will explore what NYU’s Center for Social Media and Politics learned about AI in the 2024 race — and what else we should look for in the weeks before (and after) Election Day.
October 8, 2024
Social Media and the 2024 U.S. Election
Despite the many sources of uncertainty heading into the 2024 U.S. elections, one thing we do know is that digital media – including online media, social media, and now generative AI – will play a crucial role in how Americans share and receive information about the election. Join faculty and researchers from NYU Center for […]
October 1, 2024
Ai(m) For the Future: Exploring the Ethical Dimensions of a Digital Society
The KU Leuven, the oldest university in Belgium, celebrates its 600th birthday in 2025: six centuries of groundbreaking research, inspiring teaching and active engagement in the world – and we would love for you to commemorate this with us! AI(M) for the Future: Exploring the Ethical Dimensions of a Digital Society serves as a testament […]
September 26, 2024
Public-Private Partnerships: 14th Cybersecurity Lecture Sponsored by AIG
Public-Private Partnerships are critical to keeping our world safe and secure, even beyond cybersecurity and protecting our critical infrastructure. But what are they, how do they work, and how can we ensure they have the support and investment to be successful? We’ll discuss public-private partnerships from a government, industry, and academic perspective and address the […]
June 27, 2024
Latest Research: The Great Regulatory Dodge
The sectoral privacy regime in the United States allow behaviors that seem clearly to violate privacy to flourish, effectively gouging meaningful oversight from sectoral privacy laws. We call these “regulatory dodges.” By: NYU Law Professors Helen Nissenhaum, Katherine J. Strandburg, and Michigan Law Professor Salome Viljoen
July 9, 2024
Fireside Chat: Challenges and Opportunities in Today’s Cyber Landscape
Please join us on Tuesday, July 9 for a virtual fireside chat with former White House Deputy National Cyber Director Camille Stewart Gloster. With experience as an attorney, private sector executive, and national security official, Stewart Gloster will share her invaluable perspective on the complex tech and national security issues shaping today’s cyber landscape. She will […]
July 8-10, 2024
ICON·S conference on The Future of Public Law: Resilience, Sustainability, and Artificial Intelligence
The tenth conference of the International Society of Public Law (ICON·S) will be held in Madrid, Spain at IE University Law School, on July 8-10, 2024. The conference will explore the theme of The Future of Public Law: Resilience, Sustainability, and Artificial Intelligence in a number of plenary sessions and parallel panels. Conference program and more information are […]
May 31, 2024
Clearing Rights For A ‘Non-Infringing’ Collection Of AI Training Media Is Hard
In response to a number of copyright lawsuits about AI training datasets, we are starting to see efforts to build ‘non-infringing’ collections of media for training AI. Piece by Michael Weinberg, Executive Director, NYU Law, Engelberg Center
May 22, 2024
NYU Center for Cybersecurity: CyberByte
In our most recent issue (CyberByte Spring 2024), we examine research initiatives at both NYU Tandon and Abu Dhabi that are designed to repel a growing tide of deepfakes and disinformation, including the work of two Ph.D. candidates and one 2024 Ph.D. graduate—Bruno Coelho, Aditya Sirish A Yelgundhalli, and Dr. Brian Timmerman. We also examine the […]
April 4, 2024
What to Know About Net Neutrality as FCC Weighs Restoring It
The Federal Communications Commission announced it will vote in April on whether or not to reinstate net neutrality — a set of rules to ensure equal treatment of internet data. The Trump administration overturned the policy in 2017. NYU Law School professor Christopher Sprigman joins CBS News to unpack the battle.
March 25, 2024
NYU in Dialogue: Talking Across the Aisle
David Greene — host of the Left, Right & Center podcast and show on NPR stations nationwide — and StoryCorps’ Christopher Norris welcome special guests to the NYU Skirball stage for a stimulating conversation across the aisle. Joined by Amina Amdeen — whose 2016 election story has moved millions of people worldwide — the group offers a glimpse into productive political dialogue […]
March 27, 2024
A.I. Leaders Press Advantage With Congress as China Tensions Rise
MS CRS Class of 2020 alum Jacob Helberg, senior adviser to Palantir and a member of the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, is organizing an event on May 1, where more than 100 tech chiefs and investors, including Alex Karp, the head of the defense contractor Palantir, and Roelof Botha, the managing partner of […]
March 25, 2024
NYU Law Women: Perspectives on the No AI Fraud Act
“Perspectives on the No AI Fraud Act” will feature a panel of experts and academics who have written about intellectual property and proposals to regulate artificial intelligence with a particular focus on the No AI Fraud Act (H.R.6943). Of particular interest will be the anti-revenge porn clauses and the history of policy concerns associated with […]
March 13, 2024
The Cybersecurity Landscape in Healthcare with MS CRS Professor Judith Germano
In this episode of Healthcare Nation, Rick Gannotta sits down with cybersecurity expert Judith Germano to discuss the evolving threat landscape in the healthcare sector. With her extensive background in economic crimes and as a distinguished fellow at NYU’s Center for Cybersecurity, Judith offers invaluable insights into the challenges and strategies for protecting patient data […]
March 1, 2024
Greenberg Traurig on Artificial Intelligence
Join us as we welcome attorneys from Greenberg Traurig for an in-person panel on the burgeoning field of Artificial Intelligence. During this panel, associates will share how Greenberg Traurig has adapted to developing technologies, explore opportunities with AI internally and externally, and consider hurdles to overcome as the industry grows.
February 29, 2024
JustSecurity: A Conversation with Avril Haines, Director of National Intelligence, United States
On Feb. 29, 2024, Just Security welcomed the Director of National Intelligence, Avril Haines, to NYU School of Law for an event in celebration of Just Security’s 10th anniversary year. Just Security’s Co-Editors-in-Chief, Tess Bridgeman and Ryan Goodman, introduced Director Haines who delivered remarks regarding strategic declassification, the role of law, and transparency in the […]
February 14, 2024
Microsoft says US rivals are beginning to use generative AI in offensive cyber operations
NYU MS CRS professor and former AT&T Chief Security Officer Edward Amoroso said that while the use of AI and large-language models may not pose an immediately obvious threat, they “will eventually become one of the most powerful weapons in every nation-state military’s offense.” Click to read more.
February 2, 2024
The Just Security Podcast: How Should the World Regulate Artificial Intelligence?
From products like ChatGPT to resource allocation and cancer diagnoses, artificial intelligence will impact nearly every part of our lives. We know the potential benefits of AI are enormous, but so are the risks, including chemical and bioweapons attacks, more effective disinformation campaigns, AI-enabled cyber-attacks, and lethal autonomous weapons systems. Policymakers have taken steps to […]
January 31, 2024
AI in Law Practice: What You Need to Know
AI stands to “radically alter” or “revolutionize” law practice, according to recent reports from, respectively, the Economist magazine and the Brookings Institution. Both suggested the that the jobs of junior associates at big law firms are particularly at risk from the technology. A New York Times article offered a more cautious take, saying that “the impact of the new […]
January 26, 2024
2024 Next Generation of Antitrust, Data Privacy and Data Protection Scholars Conference
This day long Next Generation of Antitrust, Data Privacy & Data Protection Scholars Conference provides an opportunity for professors in law, economics, accounting, finance, management, information system, operations management, and marketing who began their full-time tenure-track career in or after 2016 to present their latest research. Senior scholars and practitioners in the field will comment […]
January 26, 2024
Women Leaders in Cybersecurity Conference
Women Leaders in Cybersecurity presents our January 26, 2024 program, Regs Risk & Opportunity: New Cyber Rules, AI’s Impact, Evolving Your Career. Returning to in-person programming, more than a dozen leaders, including government officials, corporate board members, industry VPs, law firm partners, and professors will share insight on the new cyber rules from the SEC […]
January 24, 2024
Regulating AI in Japan and the United States
As interest in AI surges around the world, interest by governments in regulating it is also surging. Many nations have enacted or are considering a range of measures, including pursuing cross-border collaborations for a consistent approach. Concerns about the risks and harms of AI technology are wide-ranging, including fairness, privacy, safety, and transparency. Regulatory discussions […]
December 15, 2023
Can AI Streamline Washington, D.C.?
Law professor Catherine Sharkey explains how artificial intelligence is being used to tackle the arduous work of keeping our federal agencies in check.
December 13, 2023
Impact of the SEC Position on Cyber Security for the CISO (Panel discussion)
MS CRS faculty & guest speakers, Randy Milch, Ed Amoroso, Joe Sullivan, and Joel Caminer, discuss the impact of the SEC position on cyber security for the CISO.
January 16, 2024
Beyond the Clickbait: The Impact of A.I. on Cybersecurity
The narratives around AI and Cybersecurity are the modern day Choose-Your-Own-Adventure: turn to page 10 and AI is solving many of today’s cyber problems and ushering in a new era of strong privacy protections and digital security. But turn to page 20 and AI is instead empowering attackers to overwhelm defenses and undermine the digital foundations […]
December 4, 2023
Toward a Goldilocks Deal on 702 Surveillance Reform
In this virtual discussion, a panel of leading experts with diverse perspectives will examine the current state of play with respect to proposed legislation and the prospects for reauthorization; areas of likely or imaginable compromise; how U.S. national security and individual privacy could be impacted by various proposals; and what might lie ahead for the […]
November 2, 2023
Generative AI Legal Explainer
This explainer is an evolving project to provide everyone with the types of answers that legal experts might informally provide to each other. Each question includes a short response to help you understand the most likely answer in the most likely cases. That answer is then given a confidence score on a scale of 1-5, […]
November 10, 2023
NYU Law’s Technology Law and Policy Clinic Celebrates Ten Years
Join us in this full day, multi-panel event to celebrate the 10th anniversary of NYU Law’s Technology Law and Policy Clinic!
November 9, 2023
AI: Crime, Security & International Regulation
Please join NYU Law and the NYU Center for Cybersecurity for a conference on AI Crime, Security & International Regulation on November 9. This conference will consider both the opportunities and risks of AI in crime, national security, and international regulation. Senior government, industry, and civil society speakers will discuss tools and capabilities of AI […]
October 24, 2023
AI and the Law: The Latest on IP, Copyright, and More
The Center for Publishing and Applied Liberal Arts, The Engelberg Center, and The Information Law Institute cordially invite you to AI and the Law: The Latest on IP, Copyright, and More with Fabio Bertoni, General Counsel for The New Yorker on October 24, 2023 from 11am – 12pm with a reception to follow. This is a hybrid event and this event […]
October 23, 2023
Book Talk – Spies: The Epic Intelligence War Between East and West
Spies: The Epic Intelligence War Between East and West tells the story of a century-long espionage war between Russia and the West. In Walton’s telling, the Cold War began earlier than is widely understood and extended beyond the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, fueled by an asymmetric conflict of espionage, subversion, and sabotage. Walton’s […]
October 17, 2023
Will the A.I. Future Be Inclusive?
Many commentators have sounded the alarm about bias in artificial intelligence and other digital technology. But what if such technology could instead be a powerful tool to advance diversity, equity, and inclusion? In her book The Equality Machine, legal and tech scholar Orly Lobel argues that digital technology holds tremendous promise—it can detect discrimination, close pay […]
October 11, 2023
The Paradox of Chinese AI Regulation: Too Little and Too Much?
China has rapidly emerged as a global leader in artificial intelligence, closely rivalling the United States. China is also at the forefront of regulating AI. It has proactively introduced some of the world’s earliest and most comprehensive rules concerning algorithms, deepfakes, and chatbots, among others. Angela Zhang, global professor of law at NYU School of Law, […]
September 5, 2023
Knowing Legal Machines
Many of the social questions raised by artificial intelligence are mediated through the legal system. Policymakers explore new rules to govern the technology, courts work to apply existing legal framework to new situations, and advocates propose entirely new approaches to deal with novel problems (or old problems with new prominence).
September 22, 2023
Generative AI as a Creativity Tool? A Program to Explore Implications
Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a widely used disruptive technology. It is, however, far from the first technology to disrupt economic and social paradigms. Societies have adapted to such technologies in the past. This half-day conference will consider how society may adapt to generative AI. Our speakers will consider concerns that have been raised about […]
September 13, 2023
Generative AI & the Creativity Cycle
On Wednesday, September 13th, the Engelberg Center and Creative Commons are co-sponsoring a full day of critical conversations with experts across generative AI, cultural heritage, and contemporary creativity. This event is being held in-person. Sessions will be recorded and published after the event.
September 13, 2023
The Future of AI & the Law: Risks, Opportunities and Challenges
Breakthrough innovations in artificial intelligence (AI) are poised to change society, commerce and every profession. This conference will examine how AI will affect the law and the legal profession. Leading experts, professors, scientists, regulators, and lawyers will consider how AI will affect and shape our future. With generative AI, large language models becoming proto-artificial general […]
July 21, 2023
NYU Law Professor Catherine Sharkey provides guidance for how federal agencies can use AI to review regulations
Segal Family Professor of Regulatory Law and Policy Catherine Sharkey examined those questions in a report she prepared in May for the Administrative Conference of the United States (ACUS), an independent executive branch agency charged with issuing nonbinding recommendations to improve administrative and regulatory processes. Drawing on Sharkey’s report, on July 3, the ACUS published a recommendation […]
July 18, 2023
Bugs in the Software Liability Debate
The Biden administration’s National Cybersecurity Strategy, released earlier this year, calls for shifting liability for insecure software, via legislation and agency action, onto software producers that fail to take “reasonable precautions.” It would impose the cost of security flaws onto the party best-positioned to avoid them while rejecting industry’s attempt to shift liability downstream. While not without critics, […]
July 18, 2023
Women Leaders in Cybersecurity – AI Trust & Security: What Executives, Boards and Their Advisors Should Know
Women Leaders in Cybersecurity presents the July 2023 program AI Trust & Security: What Executives, Boards and Their Advisors Should Know, an insightful discussion on key issues, challenges, trends and best practices regarding AI’s impact on organizations today. Hear from Ireland’s AI Ambassador and an AI business founder; a corporate director and former CEO; CISOs; and legal […]
June 20, 2023
Safeguarding AI: Addressing the Risks of Generative Artificial Intelligence
Generative AI has great commercial promise but also poses immediate dangers. A new report from the NYU Stern Center for Business and Human Rights argues that the best way to prepare for potential existential risks in the future is to begin now to regulate the AI harms right in front of us.
May 18, 2023
What AI Regulations Should Go on the Napkin?
MSCRS Professor Ed Amoroso outlines a simple framework (suitable for we-humans to sketch on a napkin) that is based on an acronym called PILOT. The framework suggests how the US should begin to regulate artificial intelligence using an oversight board within NIST.
April 24, 2023
GPT, GDPR, AI Act: How (Not) To Regulate “Generative AI”?
How to regulate “generative AI” is now a major question across the world. The Italian Data Protection Authority’s orders against OpenAI’s operations of ChatGPT in Italy highlighted tensions between the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and generative AI infrastructures trained on massive datasets involving both personal and non-personal data. The emergence of generative AI […]
April 19, 2023
Distributed Fault Diagnosis of Interconnected Cyber-Physical Systems
The emergence of interconnected cyber-physical systems and sensor/actuator networks has given rise to advanced automation applications, where a large amount of sensor data is collected and processed in order to make suitable real-time decisions and to achieve the desired control objectives. However, in situations where some components behave abnormally or become faulty, this may lead […]
April 14, 2023
The AI Dilemma, 7 Principles for Responsible Technology Book Preview Event
Join Juliette Powell and Art Kleiner for an exclusive preview of their forthcoming book, The AI Dilemma, 7 Principles for Responsible Technology. Generative content creators. Self-driving vehicles. Predictive analytics. Data collections. In the right hands, they’re beneficial to all. In the wrong hands, they amplify human bias and harm vulnerable people. In this fireside chat, we will discuss how […]
April 5, 2023
How Will the Law Handle Generative AI?
The release of generative AI systems such as ChatGPT, DALL-E, and Stable Diffusion have raised numerous concerns—from copyright infringement to defamation to the unlawful disclosure of personal information. Several lawsuits have already been filed against their makers, with more likely to come. On the input side, artists, photographers, graphic artists, journalists, and software coders have […]
March 2, 2023
Attorney General Merrick Garland Testifies on the Reauthorization of Section 702 of FISA
U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland testified on March 1 for the first time before the new Congress at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, “Oversight of the Department of Justice.” Buried in wide-ranging testimony was an exchange about the reauthorization of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). Just Security recently ran a series featuring pieces by Elizabeth […]
February 13, 2023
The Year of Section 702 Reform, Part I: Backdoor Searches
This year’s reauthorization of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) — a law that authorizes broad surveillance of foreigners outside the United States to acquire foreign intelligence information— will be unlike any previous one. In the past, reauthorization was a foregone conclusion, and civil liberties advocates struggled to secure even minor procedural […]
March 23, 2023
Annual New York Cyber Security Summit
The Annual New York Cyber Security Summit connects C-Suite & Senior Executives responsible for protecting their companies’ critical infrastructures with innovative solution providers and renowned information security experts.
February 24, 2023
Japan’s Role in Asian Regional Security
Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine one year ago, Japan has begun significantly upgrading its national security posture. It announced plans to double defense-related expenditures to equal 2 percent of GDP in five years and updated three of its key national security documents. Meanwhile, Japan and the US have strengthened their alliance through a Biden-Kishida summit […]
February 15, 2023
Journey to the NIST Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) 2.0 | Workshop #2
Join NIST and expert panelists and leaders on February 15, 2023, from 9:00 AM – 5:30 PM EST, for this second virtual workshop to discuss potential updates to the Cybersecurity Framework. This event will discuss potential significant changes to the Framework as outlined in the soon-to-be-released CSF Concept Paper, as well as build on feedback from the 2022 NIST […]
February 8, 2023
BWLN Book Talk: Say the Right Thing: How to Talk About Identity, Diversity, and Justice
Please join the Birnbaum Women’s Leadership Network and the Meltzer Center for Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging for a virtual book talk to celebrate the release of Say the Right Thing: How to Talk About Identity, Diversity, and Justice by Kenji Yoshino and David Glasgow. Say the Right Thing is a practical, shame-free guide for navigating conversations about our differences […]
January 31, 2023
NYC MEDIA LAB PRESENTS: A Discussion On ChatGPT
The NYU Tandon NYC Media Lab invites you to join us for an informative discussion on OpenAI’s newly launched chatbot ChatGPT (Generative Pre-Trained Transformer). ChatGPT is a prompted dialogue AI chatbot utilizing natural language processing tasks such as text generation and language translation. We will discuss ChatGPT’s impact and challenges within the landscape of education, […]
January 12, 2023
Erez Liebermann to Discuss New Regulatory Requirements and Guidance at Incident Response Forum Ransomware 2023
On Thursday, January 12, 2023 at 3:00 PM EST Erez Liebermann will be speaking on a virtual panel entitled The Changing Tides of Regulation: Navigating New Regulatory Requirements and Guidance Around Cybersecurity and Ransomware. The conference’s faculty includes senior government cybersecurity officials from the FBI and OFAC, and nearly two dozen other legal and consulting […]
January 11, 2023
Regulating Artificial Intelligence Requires Balancing Rights, Innovation
Across the technology industry, artificial intelligence (AI) has boomed over the last year. Lensa went viral creating artistic avatar artwork generated from real-life photos. The OpenAI chatbot ChatGPT garnered praise as a revolutionary leap in generative AI with the ability to provide answers to complex questions in natural language text. Such innovations have ignited an outpouring of investments even as the […]
January 20, 2023
Can Europe and China Resume Business as Usual?
As China slowly emerges from its self-imposed COVID-19 isolation and entry becomes easier for foreign businessmen, a critical question that has been pushed to the side will return to the fore: is European business still in love with China? When the pandemic began in 2020, Europe was China’s largest trading partner and Chinese investment into […]
November 23, 2022
UN Counterterrorism and Technology: What Role for Human Rights in Security?
The first meeting of the United Nations Security Council Counter-Terrorism Committee (CTC) held outside of U.N. headquarters in New York since 2015 marked important advances in engaging with civil society and experts who have questioned the embrace of counterterrorism approaches that too often backfire or result in human rights violations[…]
November 17, 2022
Encryption Helps Ukrainians Resist Russia’s Invasion, but a European Plan Threatens the Underlying Trust Any Tech User Needs
Western military assistance to Ukraine has clearly been an essential part of its ability to defend itself against Russian attacks. Another critical factor, highlighted during a series of recent transatlantic dialogues organized by the Munich Security Conference, has been the capability of widely available technology that has empowered everyday Ukrainians to participate in a truly […]
November 29, 2022
The Future of US-China Tech Relations: Blockchain Technology, Crypto Regulation, and Central Bank
Using blockchain and CBDC as examples, we will explore China’s latest innovation policy and the post-20th Party Congress US-China tech race, from AI and semiconductor chips to quantum computing and electric cars. Winston Ma, the author of Blockchain and Web3: Building the Cryptocurrency, Privacy, and Security Foundations of the Metaverse, will discuss these questions with […]
October 21, 2022
Summary of findings: TikTok and Facebook fail to detect election disinformation in the U.S., while Youtube succeeds
An investigation by Global Witness and the Cybersecurity for Democracy (C4D) team at NYU Tandon looked at Facebook, TikTok, and Youtube’s ability to detect and remove election disinformation in the run up to the US midterm elections.
November 10, 2022
China’s Direction under Xi Jinping: What We Learned from the Party Congress
Fordham Law Professor Carl Minzner will share his analysis of what we can expect for the next decade (or more) of Xi Jinping rule, based on the speeches and documents from the party congress and other recent messaging. He also will discuss what all this could mean for foreign scholars trying to conduct research in […]
November 2, 2022
Deluge Data, Data Deluge Symposium
Deluge Data, Data Deluge is online talk series and in-person symposium that brings critical perspectives from the humanities and arts into dialogue with engineering and data practitioners engaged in flood sensing.
December 6, 2022
NYU Tandon School of Engineering: Keystone
Join the NYU Tandon School of Engineering entrepreneurial ecosystem, and sign up for the Future Labs’ no-cost, virtual 8-week crash course in launching your own company. Apply by December 6, 2022.
October 20, 2022
Dawning Digital Data Access via New EU Law
Desperately needed research is finally becoming possible. The European Parliament has adopted the new Digital Services Act (DSA) and the final text has now been approved by the Council of the European Union (EU) on Oct. 4. This act overhauls EU law regarding digital service providers’ legal responsibility for the content their users post and obligations for content moderation.
October 17, 2022
The UN Cybercrime Treaty Has a Cybersecurity Problem In It
The United Nations is engaged in a landmark effort to establish a new global cybercrime treaty.
November 10, 2022
Data Cartels FUNTIME BOOK PARTY
Professor of Law Sarah Lamdan will discuss her new book, Data Cartels: The Companies that Control and Monopolize Our Information with MarketWatch Enterprise Reporter Shoshana Wodinsky.
November 2, 2022
FemTech and Privacy: Striking the Balance in a Post-Dobbs Reality
A conversation exploring how FemTech data can be used, and the privacy laws and legislation that can be leveraged to protect users.
October 13, 2022
Realigning Law, Values, & Technology: Jessica Silbey and Rebecca Giblin in conversation with Jason Schultz
While the internet and digital technologies has delivered wonders, they have also revealed, exacerbated, or simply thrown into stark relief a misalignment between intellectual property and competition law, our fundamental values, and expectations for a just society. In Chokepoint Capitalism, Rebecca Giblin and her co-author Cory Doctorow explore how creative labor markets have been captured and distorted, suggesting […]
October 4, 2022
CyberTalk with David Moon, CEO, Arx Nimbus
Join NYU Tandon School of Engineering to hear David Moon, a four-year US Air Force veteran with Secret clearance, speak to the cyber community at NYU. David is an expert information security and executive-level technology professional with a 20+ year portfolio of some of the most ground-breaking and high-value project results in information security, technology, […]
September 27, 2022
What You Need to Know: U.S. Intervention in Ukraine v. Russia at the ICJ
Chimène Keitner is a professor of law at UC Hastings and former Counselor on International Law at the State Department. In this Q&A on U.S. Intervention in Ukraine v. Russia at the ICJ, she describes how the ICJ case has “served as a focal point” for nations seeking to offer legal support to Ukraine. She examines jurisdictional and merits questions, […]
September 22, 2022
MS CRS Alum Michael Fitzpatrick (’19), Chief Privacy Officer for the City of New York, speaks about the MS CRS program
Michael Fitzpatrick MS CRS ’19, NYC’s chief privacy officer, explains how NYU Law prepared him to tackle pressing issues in cybersecurity.
September 29, 2022
Central Intelligence Agency Opportunities
Please come join the National Security Law Society in welcoming Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) representatives to NYU Law. An attorney from the CIA’s Office of General Counsel and a member of the Agency’s Talent Center will be visiting to speak about internship and career opportunities at the agency, along with answering questions about the hiring […]
September 28, 2022
Fireside Chat with Rostin Benham, Professor Rob Jackson and Senior Research Fellow Allison Herren Lee
Please join us on Wednesday, September 28, 2022, for a Fireside Chat with Rostin Benham, Chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Co-Director and Professor Rob Jackson and Senior Research Fellow Allison Herren Lee, both former SEC Commissioners, focusing on the regulation of digital assets.
September 15, 2022
Wall Street Journal & Netscout Conversation with Nicole Perlroth
We are thrilled to announce Nicole Perlroth, Advisor to the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) will join “When Prevention Can’t Keep Up: Zero-Day Attacks and the Necessity of Cyber Risk Detection” on September 15 at 11 a.m. ET.
September 14, 2022
Securing the Software Supply Chain End to End Against Nation State Actors
In this faculty lecture, Justin Cappos, Associate Professor, Computer Science and Engineering will cover what specific efforts make it harder for attackers to compromise the means by which software is created and distributed. A specific area of focus will be on what tools one can use in practice to combat such attackers.
September 12, 2022
AcidRain Malware and Viasat Network Downtime in Ukraine: Assessing the Cyber War Threat – Just Security
As the war in Ukraine progresses, there have been several offensive cyber operations linked to Russian organizations against Ukrainian civil, military, and corporate infrastructures. Cybersecurity and intelligence professionals were initially surprised by the lack of large-scale and complex cyber attacks in support of Russia’s kinetic activities at the outset of the war.
July 12th, 2022
New SEC Cyber Rules Put Boards and Executives on Alert
Board and executive accountability around cyber risk has become Topic A for corporate leaders. Judi Germano, professor in MS CRS Program, shares her expertise in this article. Click the title of this post to read the full piece.
July 12th, 2022
Women Leaders in Cybersecurity 2022: Cyber Risk: Increasing Board and Executive Accountability (Virtual Panel, July 12th)
Join the NYU Center for Cybersecurity for a discussion on the important legal, technological, ethical, and policy issues at stake in enhancing board and executive accountability for cyber risk. This will be a can’t-miss discussion on the role top leadership plays in cybersecurity practice and policy. This event is moderated by MS CRS Professor Judi […]
May 13, 2022
Russian Threats and Cybersecurity: Q&A with Beth George, former DOD acting General Counsel
The Reiss Center on Law and Security and Just Security present a new series, What You Need to Know: Unpacking the Law in Russia’s War Against Ukraine. In brief question-and-answer interviews with leading experts, we will probe some of the most urgent and unsettled legal questions in a tragic conflict that threatens to reshape the international legal and […]
Confronting Escalating Cyber Attacks
This initiative brings together thought leaders from government, business, and academia to discuss strategies for addressing future attacks on critical infrastructure. MS CRS Professors Randy Milch (NYU Law) and Ed Amoroso (NYU Tandon) are featured in this series. Click the title of this post to receive the interviews and briefings.
April 14, 2022
12th Cyber Security Lecture – Cloud Security Megatrends (Virtual Panel, April 14th)
The NYU Tandon School of Engineering Cyber Security Lecture Series provides an arena for high-level discussion among world-class scholars and practitioners. Led by MS CRS capstone mentor Phil Venables (CISO – Google Cloud), this lecture will be followed by a panel discussion with Cybersecurity Experts offering their own perspectives on cloud adoption, security, and digital transformation. […]
March 21, 2022
The Cyber Social Contract: A Conversation with National Cyber Director Chris Inglis
Inaugural National Cyber Director Chris Inglis visited NYU Law for a keynote address and fireside chat hosted by the NYU Center for Cybersecurity. Director Inglis addressed the state of cyber policy today and the need for a “Cyber Social Contract” that realigns risks and responsibilities between public and private actors in cyberspace. Click the title of this post to view […]
March 16, 2022
MS CRS Guest Speaker: Nicole Perlroth (CISA, New York Times)
Nicole spent a decade as lead cybersecurity reporter at The New York Times, is the author of NYT bestseller, “This Is How They Tell Me The World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race,” and serves as an Advisor for the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. We were excited to welcome Nicole as a guest speaker in the National […]
March 3, 2022
In Ukraine’s information war, a blend of fact and fiction
Laura Edelson, co-founder of Cybersecurity for Democracy and member of NYU Center for Cybersecurity, offers her input in this NYT article: “They are telling stories that support their narrative. Sometimes false information is making its way in there, too, and more of it is getting through because of the overall environment.” Please click the title of this post […]
March 1, 2022
What makes New York vulnerable to Russian cyberattacks?
NYU Tandon Professor Justin Cappos in the news: Following Russia’s provocations and now invasion of Ukraine, local and state officials are stepping up their vigilance and talking about bolstering defenses of critical infrastructure and other high-interest targets, including transportation networks, power grids and financial institutions. Please click the title of this post to read this […]