Thomas Kadri

Can't wait to dive into this! Nothing like some smart obscurity takes to start the week.

If you fancy a meta experience today, consider listening to an AI-generated workshop from @christianturner.bsky.social's enTalkenator of my article with @sonjawest.bsky.social about AI-generated deepfakes being featured as DoTW by @lsolum.bsky.social! www.entalkenator.com/podcast/work...

Thanks to @lsolum.bsky.social for the generous recommendation of my forthcoming piece with @sonjawest.bsky.social!

TikTok Shop Sells Viral GPS Trackers Marketed to Stalkers "If your girl says she’s just out with friends every night, you’d better slap one of these on her car."

I talked to 404 Media about devices for tracking and spying on your partner being sold on TikTok. This is not stalkerware, but these are devices for tech-enabled abuse and I think we should be talking about tech-enabled abuse more broadly.

www.404media.co/tiktok-shop-...

Appreciate the opportunity to write with @thomaskadri.bsky.social and @chinmayisharma.bsky.social for @lawfaremedia.org to call for a more expansive right to obscurity, building off our article—Brokering Safety—forthcoming in @califlrev.bsky.social

Excited to share a @lawfaremedia.org piece with @thomaskadri.bsky.social and @samadler.bsky.social that builds off our article Brokering Safety, forthcoming in @califlrev.bsky.social, that calls for an overdue conversation about how much we privilege data broker profits over human safety.

For more details on the full proposal, check out our draft: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

A new provocation from me, @samadler.bsky.social & @chinmayisharma.bsky.social to extend the proposal in our forthcoming Calif. L. Rev. (@califlrev.bsky.social) piece by letting *anyone* force data brokers to obscure info through a centralized process. It's time to call the 1st Amendment question!

Brenda Dvoskin and Thomas E. Kadri Receive 2025–2026 Haub Law Emerging Scholar Award in Women, Gender & Law Professors Brenda Dvoskin of Washington University School of Law and Thomas E. Kadri of the University of Georgia School of Law have been selected as the recipients of the 2025–2026 Haub Law Emerging ...

Well, this was a lovely surprise! www.pace.edu/news/brenda-...

@ugaschooloflaw.bsky.social Professor @thomaskadri.bsky.social recently spent time as a fellow at @eui-eu.bsky.social ‬in Florence, Italy.

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The Constitutive Contradictions of Prison Health Care in the United States - Petrie-Flom Center From forced labor on plantations, roads, and industrial plants to extracting blood, fines, and fees, incarcerated peoples’ bodies have been a known site of capitalist exploitation. Yet, they are also ...

So proud to see this piece out in the world and excited about the research agenda it anticipates, shedding light on the political economy and capitalist maneuvers of prison healthcare. petrieflom.law.harvard.edu/2025/04/18/t...

2:26 Thomas Kadri (External) That l've co-authored with Chinmay Sharma. Thomas Kadri (External) And Sam Adler called brokering safety explores how data brokers

Thank you @thomaskadri.bsky.social for pairing scholarship with action. Drawing on our article with @chinmayisharma.bsky.social (Brokering Safety), Thomas testified in support of MA’s Location Shield Act and emphasized its importance in mitigating abuse survivors’ privacy self-management burden.

Sharma, Kadri, & Adler on Data Brokers and Safety for Abuse Victims, buff.ly/E4hgZG3 - Chinmayi Sharma (Fordham Law), Thomas Kadri (University of Georgia School of Law), & Sam Adler (Fordham Law) have posted Brokering Safety (114 Calif. L. Rev. (2026)) on SSRN.

I too would recommend anything written by @chinmayisharma.bsky.social and @thomaskadri.bsky.social!

The article won’t be published until 2026, so there’s plenty of time for us to improve it. Please send feedback — or just come heckle us at the upcoming Freedom of Expression Scholars Conference at @yaleisp.bsky.social or the Privacy Law Scholars Conference at UCLA! 🙏

“Brokering Safety” is forthcoming in Calif. L. Rev.! With @chinmayisharma.bsky.social & @samadler.bsky.social, we expose privacy law's complicity in how data brokers worsen stalking & IPV, then pitch a system for victims to obscure data across all brokers in one go. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

The article is forthcoming in the Harvard Journal of Law & Technology but won't be published for a little while. Comments are most welcome! 🙏

Brenda Dvoskin & I just posted “Safe Sex in the Age of Big Tech Feminism.” We interrogate feminist strands animating regulations to keep people—esp. women—safe from the risks of online sexuality, then offer an alternate agenda grounded in queer & crit feminist theory. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

The article I co-authored with @thomaskadri.bsky.social and @samadler.bsky.social, "Brokering Safety," is forthcoming in the California Law Review! It proposes a system that would enable victims to obscure their info across all data brokers with a single request.

papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

The article I co-authored with @thomaskadri.bsky.social and @chinmayisharma.bsky.social , Brokering Safety, is forthcoming in the California Law Review! We look forward to presenting the article at the Consumer Law Scholars Conference and Privacy Law Scholars Conference.

University of Georgia School of Law Professor @thomaskadri.bsky.social was selected as a Visiting Fellow at the Law Department of the European University Institute in Florence, Italy.

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Congratulations! Very excited to read the final version!

Finally, one goal of publishing these open-access books for free is to do my small part to make legal education more affordable, accessible & adaptable.

In that spirit, since I don’t have a publisher to amplify this work, please help me spread the word by sharing widely!

Please let me know if you have reactions or use the materials in some way. I’m happy to keep you posted about new editions, share more adaptable versions, or just chat about these projects or the issues they raise.

And though the primary goal was pedagogical, I’d like to think that engaging with these materials can be generative for scholarship, too. (It certainly has been for me, as the Epilogue on Imagery & Tech included in both books reveals.)

I created the books to pair with my courses at UGA Law (Digital Abuse & Cybercrime, if you’d like to check out syllabi on my website—https://thomaskadri.com). But I hope they’re also appealing to folks teaching Internet Law, Privacy Law & related classes beyond law schools.

The books are also filled with AI-generated images made with @midjourney.bsky.social that bring each dilemma/scenario to life. These posts provide a glimpse of my adventures with this technology!

The materials touch privacy, NCII, free speech, stalking, IPV, harassment, cybersecurity, civil rights, consumer protection & much more. While they often focus on crim/tort law, there’s space to discuss other relevant legal/non-legal interventions.

Dilemmas in Digital Abuse is published under my name; Cybercrime Scenarios is co-authored with Samuel Won.

Both are open-access materials that you may use/assign/adapt for free under a @creativecommons.bsky.social license!

Or buy paperbacks on Lulu: lulu.com/search?contr...

Delighted to release two new books into the world!

*Dilemmas in Digital Abuse* & *Cybercrime Scenarios* feature lots of “dilemmas” & “scenarios” exploring law/tech issues.

Download for free on my website, where you’ll also find links for ~$14 paperbacks: thomaskadri.com/research/sch...