Let The Sun Shine In: WaPo and the Magistrates' Revolt
Over at Just Security, I have a new piece on the Washington Post's interesting story about the increasingly aggressive role some federal magistrate judges are playing in policing criminal...
View ArticleThe Changing Attitudes Towards Cyber Gender Harassment: Anonymous as a Guide?
Author(s): Danielle CitronPublication Date: April 27, 2014Publication Type: Other WritingIn 2007 technologist Kathy Sierra faced graphic rape and death threats on her blog Creating Passionate Users and...
View ArticleFCC Move Seen as Disaster for Online Start-Ups
Date published: April 27, 2014The Fiscal Times"“We know that users will leave a service if it is slow to load, or if it is unreliable,” said attorney Marvin Ammori, a fellow with the New America...
View ArticleHackonomics: The cost of getting caught
Date published: April 28, 2014ZDNet"Ms. Hofmann explained,Lawyers' rates are highly variable — they depend on years of experience, depth of specialization, technical proficiency, where the lawyer...
View ArticleThe Branding of a Bug: How Heartbleed Became a Household Name
Date published: April 28, 2014Bloomberg"Still, how Heartbleed was transformed from a security hole in an obscure part of open-source encryption software into a brand recognized around the world is a...
View ArticleFirst European Constitutional Court Suspends Data Retention After the...
*/ Shortly after a series of coordinated suicide attacks in Madrid in 2004 and central London in 2005, the European Union reacted by passing the so called Data Retention Directive. The Directive...
View ArticleWhite House Makes Reassuring Noises On 0-Day Policy
Yesterday afternoon, the White House put out a statement describing its view of vulnerability disclosure: the contentious issue of whether and when government agencies should disclose their knowledge...
View ArticleSpringtime for CISPA
Spring is here. The flowers are in bloom, the days are longer, and Congress queues up for another legislative proposal to 'address' cybersecurity in the United States. Yes -- springtime is...
View ArticleBrazil Leads the Efforts in Internet Governance with its Recently Enacted...
On April 23, 2014, Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff enacted the country’s long awaited Internet Bill of Rights, locally known as “Marco Civil da Internet”.First introduced to the legislature in 2011,...
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Techno Sapiens: The Ghost in the Data Edition
Cross-posted from Slate.Read more » about Techno Sapiens: The Ghost in the Data Edition
View ArticleLindsay Lohan's 'GTA 5' Lawsuit: 'The Kindest Thing You Could Say Is It’s A...
Date published: July 7, 2014International Business Times"“The kindest thing you could say about it is it’s a publicity stunt,” Nazer said. Regarding the Lacey Jonas character, Nazer dismissed the...
View ArticleStanford’s Center for Internet and Society launches World Intermediary...
Date published: July 8, 2014Inside Counsel"Frosio states, "By their nature, Internet services are inherently global. But Internet companies face a real challenge understanding how those global regimes...
View ArticleDrone flies too close to NYPD chopper, police say; operators arrested
Date published: July 8, 2014Los Angeles Times"Ryan Calo, a law professor at the University of Washington, said the case exemplified some of the problems in the lack of regulation for civilian drones....
View ArticleNet Neutrality and the First Amendment Rights of Users of Government-Run...
Yesterday my Elon Law colleague Enrique Armijo, who writes about the application of the First Amendment to new technologies, filed a comment in the FCC's net neutrality proceeding. As CIS blog readers...
View ArticleBig Data and the Perceptual Divide
There's an old joke that goes like this: “There are only 10 types of people in the world: those who understand binary and those who don't.” Like most old jokes, it's built around a kernel of truth. If...
View ArticleOur Robot Future: The Moral, Ethical, and Legal Challenges of Ubiquitous...
July 11, 2014Boalt HallRoundtable with experts Professor Ronald C. Arkin, Professor Ryan Calo, Dr. Kate Darling, Professor Illah Nourbakhsh, and Professor Noel SharkeyModerated by Professor Jennifer...
View Article2014 Fastcase 50
Date published: July 10, 2014Fastcase50CIS Affiliate Scholar Ryan Calo named as one of 2014's Fastcase 50. http://www.fastcase.com/fastcase50-winners-2014/Read more » about 2014 Fastcase 50
View ArticleAfter The Freak-Out Over Facebook's Emotion Manipulation Study, What Happens...
Date published: July 10, 2014Forbes"Ryan Calo, an academic at the University of Washington, who was writing about corporate lab rats even before it became a hot topic of conversation. “It’s about...
View ArticleSohu vs Toutiao: Chinese Mobile News App Sued by News Publishers for...
Recently, a 120 million users mobile application, Toutiao (“headline” in Chinese), got on the nerves of traditional and Internet news publishers in China. In late June, China's Internet giant Sohu sued...
View ArticleThe FCC changed course on network neutrality. Here is why you should care.
Wednesday's press reports of the new network neutrality rules proposed by FCC Chairman Wheeler have been met with anger and confusion. According to the Wall Street Journal, "[r]egulators are proposing...
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