Why Microsoft's Fight with the Government Should Overshadow Apple's
Date published: April 15, 2016"This lawsuit comes on the heels of the Apple case, in which Tim Cook and Apple stood up to the FBI. As in the Apple case, this suit goes to show that in the...
View ArticleFederal, state authorities investigating source of data used to steal city...
Date published: April 15, 2016""They're related, as far as we know, only by the fact that they're city employees," said Richard Forno, assistant director of the University of Maryland, Baltimore...
View ArticleHere’s What the Burr-Feinstein Anti-Crypto Bill Gets Wrong
Author(s): Riana PfefferkornPublication Date: April 15, 2016Publication Type: Other WritingThe latest Crypto War is being fought on multiple fronts: behind closed doors, in thecourts, and now in...
View ArticlePatent owner balks at fee award, cites newly issued—and similar—patent
Date published: April 15, 2016"In an e-mail to Ars regarding the reconsideration request, EFF lawyer Daniel Nazer pointed out that Garfum already argued this application was relevant to its case, and...
View ArticleEdward Snowden on police pursuing journalist data: the scandal is what the...
Date published: April 16, 2016"Geoffrey King, director of the Committee to Protect Journalists’ Technology Program, said the AFP’s actions were “obviously outrageous”.“This should not be happening. But...
View ArticleStanford Intermediary Liability Lab Meeting with the Takedown Project
The next SILLab meeting will be held on Tuesday, April 19 from 12.50 to 2pm in room 301 at SLS. April 19, 2016Stanford Law School
View ArticleMaryland National Guard steps up role in cyberspace
Date published: April 17, 2016""These are the people who are probably working in the security space already by day," said Richard Forno, the director of the graduate cybersecurity program at the...
View ArticleCarleton College Weekly Convocation
Attorney and scholar Morgan Weiland ’06 will present Carleton College’s weekly convocation on Friday, April 22 from 10:50 to 11:50 a.m. in the Skinner Memorial Chapel. A leader in the study of the law...
View ArticleDMCA Classic, DMCA Turbo: Major new empirical research on notice and takedown...
Good data about Notice and Takedown can be hard to find. Jennifer Urban and Laura Quilter’s seminal 2006 study has long been the gold standard, combining rigorous number-crunching with what must have...
View ArticleHow SecureDrop helps CPJ protect journalists
Author(s): Geoffrey KingTom LowenthalPublication Date: May 12, 2016Publication Type: Other Writing
View ArticleAttorneys Joust Over Copyright Law's Legacy
Date published: May 13, 2016"Attorney Andrew Bridges with Fenwick & West said adjudication is the only fair way to handle accusations that can lead to being kicked off the Internet. "Who decides...
View ArticleThe Feds Are Arming Themselves to Drive Drones Out of Airports
Date published: May 13, 2016"All of which begs the question, is this that big a deal? “We need to figure out what kind of danger drones actually prose,” says Ryan Calo, who specializes in law as it...
View ArticleReviewing The Trade Secret Short Film "The Company Man: Protecting America's...
The FBI produced a short film in July 2015 about an Chinese-backed attempted trade secret theft prosecution that actually occurred. Somehow I missed it; perhaps I was focusing on opposing the...
View Article“Tool Without a Handle: “Tools for Terror, Tools for Peace,” part II
This blog continues the analysis of how to respond to terrorist activity (including recruitment and planning of attacks) using network information technology, in particular social media. As noted...
View ArticleYour call and text records are far more revealing than you think
Date published: May 16, 2016""The study has important implications for surveillance law and policy," says Arvind Narayanan, a computer scientist and data privacy expert at Princeton University. "Our...
View ArticleMeet ‘Ross,’ the newly hired legal robot
Date published: May 16, 2016"A future where ROSS, or similar robot lawyers, is used across the country might not be too far away, according to Ryan Calo, a law professor and writer who focuses on the...
View ArticlePaying without passwords and PINs
Date published: May 16, 2016Back in 2000, ING Direct Canada – the digital bank that became Tangerine Bank – piloted a “biometric” mouse that would scan users’ fingerprints to help bypass the need for...
View ArticleArs Technica Live #2 - Surveillance
If you're in the Bay Area, come out to the filming of our second episode of Ars Technica Live, a monthly interview series with fascinating people who work at the intersection of tech, science, and...
View ArticleArtificial Intelligence: Law and Policy
The University of Washington School of Law is delighted to announce a public workshop on the law and policy of artificial intelligence, co-hosted by the White House and UW’s Tech Policy Lab. The event...
View ArticlePolicy Debates over EU Platform Liability Laws: New Human Rights Case Law in...
This is the last of four posts on the European Court of Human Rights’ (ECHR) rulings in Delfi v. Estonia and MTE v. Hungary. In both cases, national courts held online news portals liable for comments...
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