Why a top net neutrality activist took a gig with an Internet provider
Date published: June 26, 2015""It certainly wasn't 'Marvin, cheerlead for us,'" said Ammori. "It was, 'Give us advice,' and I definitely signaled to them that you can't bring a merger nowadays without...
View ArticleCharter: We won’t impose data caps after buying Time Warner Cable
Date published: June 26, 2015"Charter hired net neutrality advocate Marvin Ammori to advise the company on merger commitments.Read more » about Charter: We won’t impose data caps after buying Time...
View Article“Tool Without a Handle”: 21st Century Data Privacy – A Quantum Puzzle – Part 2
In this part 2, I describe a quantum principle – the familiar “uncertainty principle” – and how it applies to privacy law and policy considerations. In particular, I observe that the process of...
View ArticleSupreme Court Sends Google-Oracle Feud Back to SF Judge
Date published: June 29, 2015"The original 2012 trial was a who's who of Silicon Valley, with Oracle CEO Larry Ellison, Google leaders Eric Schmidt and Larry Page and Android co-founders Andrew Rubin...
View ArticleWhy did it take so long to ban revenge porn?
Date published: June 29, 2015"“No one wanted to commit to anything,” said Citron. “There used to be a period of time where I would talk about this issue and people would say, ‘Stop being a baby, it’s...
View ArticleSloppy Cyber Threat Sharing Is Surveillance by Another Name
Author(s): Jennifer GranickPublication Date: June 29, 2015Publication Type: Other WritingCross-posted from Just Security.This post is the latest installment of our “Monday Reflections” feature, in...
View ArticleDavid Levine reappointed as a Visiting Research Collaborator at Princeton
Date published: June 30, 2015Elon Law Professor David S. Levine, an affiliate scholar at Stanford Law School’s Center for Internet and Society, has been reappointed to the position of Visiting Research...
View ArticleSprint Is Called Out on Throttling Policy
Date published: June 30, 2015"Stanford University law professor Barbara van Schewick said the policy seemed clearly at odds with the FCC’s net neutrality rules. Throttling for network management is...
View ArticleSprint ditches 600 Kbps streaming video speed limit after outcry
Date published: July 1, 2015"Some experts think that the 600 Kbps throttling limit Sprint just discontinued violated the FCC's net neutrality rules. For example, Stanford University law professor...
View ArticleThis teen won’t go to prison, even after he hacked 50,700 computers
Date published: July 13, 2015"In the Finnish court, though, that's not an unusual punishment, said Andrea Matwyshyn, a professor at the Center for Information Technology Policy at Princeton...
View ArticleBackdoors, Spyware, and 'Going Dark'
The past week or two have been fascinating ones for those following cyber security news… Read more » about Backdoors, Spyware, and 'Going Dark'
View ArticleThe Iran deal reflects the U.S.’s overwhelming power over the world’s...
Author(s): Henry FarrellPublication Date: July 14, 2015Publication Type: Other WritingThere is good reason to believe that Iran was prepared to reach a deal over its nuclear program because it was...
View ArticleWe're going to have to change our laws to cope with robots
Date published: July 14, 2015""Technology has not stood still," he wrote in an article in the California Law Review journal."The same private institutions that developed the Internet, from the armed...
View ArticleOnline comment forums to continue despite ECHR ruling
Date published: July 14, 2015"According to some interpretations, the verdict indicates that the media are responsible for the comments posted by anonymous users. Such explanation is, however, not...
View ArticleLaw Must Catch Up with Rise of Robotics
Date published: July 15, 2015"A new article calls for the law to catch up with robotic technology. Ryan Calo, assistant professor in the University of Washington School of Law, says it’s time laws...
View ArticleThe FBI’s Problem Isn’t “Going Dark.” Its Problem is Going Slowly
Author(s): Marshall ErwinPublication Date: July 16, 2015Publication Type: Other WritingIt should be clear to even casual observers today that the “golden age of surveillance” thesis is fundamentally...
View ArticleFeds bust through huge Tor-hidden child porn site using questionable malware
Date published: July 16, 2015""The court filings scrupulously avoid naming Tor (or mentioning hacking). Instead, they provide a detailed description of an anonymizing ‘Network’ and how a particular...
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Anti-Flash sentiment sweeps the globe
On this week's show we'll be checking in with Richard Forno on the fallout from the OPM breach. Richard has been kicking around in DC infosec circles for a long time now and he let's us know what the...
View ArticleWhy the Islamic State leaves tech companies torn between free speech and...
Date published: July 16, 2015"“You want to live in a world where people have access to news — in other words, documentary evidence of what is actually happening,” said Andrew McLaughlin, a former...
View ArticleVenezuela-based fraud ring stole UPMC identities to buy electronics from...
Date published: June 26, 2015"“Once data is breached, it is almost impossible to know whether or not, or when, that data has made its way into these black markets,” said Brian Nussbaum, a cybersecurity...
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