New VPN Ban in Russia Latest Step in Increasing Cyber Risk for US Companies
LocationUnited StatesSee map: Google MapsDate published: August 3, 2017Law.com"Moreover, Scott Shackelford, cybersecurity program chair at Indiana University, said the case in part “illustrates the...
View ArticleBeyond Snowden: Privacy, Mass Surveillance and the Struggle to Reform the NSA
RSVP is required for this free event. September 14, 2017Stanford Law School
View ArticleSteve Ballmer believes that facts about government spending can anchor public...
LocationUnited StatesSee map: Google MapsAuthor(s): Henry FarrellPublication Date: August 3, 2017Publication Type: Other WritingSteve Ballmer is the former CEO of Microsoft and the current owner of the...
View ArticleFirst International Congress on Fundamental Rights and Criminal Process in...
Cryptography Fellow Riana Pfefferkorn gave a lecture titled "The American debate on surveillance and encryption". May 30, 2017São Paulo
View ArticleSteve Ballmer has a big idea: to be a partisan for the facts
LocationUnited StatesSee map: Google MapsAuthor(s): Henry FarrellPublication Date: August 4, 2017Publication Type: Other WritingSteve Ballmer is the former chief executive of Microsoft, and the current...
View ArticleInternet Archive Hopes to Help Libraries Make Available Books Once Thought...
LocationUnited StatesSee map: Google MapsDate published: October 19, 2017EdSurge"“It turns out there’s a lot of weird questions that come up,” Townsend Gard says. The substitution of a comma for a...
View ArticleAcademics Recommend to Drop Filtering Obligations from the EU Copyright Reform
As you might have noticed, there is a lot of activism on the copyright/intermediary liability side in Europe at the moment. Hence, I'm here announcing another opinion that I have co-drafted with an...
View ArticleThe Rhetoric of “Responsible Encryption”
LocationUnited StatesSee map: Google MapsAuthor(s): Riana PfefferkornPublication Date: October 19, 2017Publication Type: Other WritingLast week, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein gave a speech...
View ArticleCongress doesn’t know enough to stop people enriching themselves at the...
LocationUnited StatesSee map: Google MapsAuthor(s): Henry FarrellPublication Date: October 20, 2017Publication Type: Other WritingBrink Lindsey and Steve Teles’s new book, The Captured Economy: How the...
View ArticleCongress’s automated driving bills are both more and less than they seem
Bills being considered by Congress deserve our attention—but not our full attention. To wit: When it comes to safety-related regulation of automated driving, existing law is at least as important as...
View ArticleThe Senate’s automated driving bill could squash state authority
My previous post on the House and Senate automated driving bills (HB 3388 and SB 1885) concluded by noting that, in addition to the federal government, states and the municipalities within them also...
View ArticleTo Filter or Not to Filter? That is the Question in EU Copyright Reform
LocationUnited StatesSee map: Google MapsAuthor(s): Giancarlo FrosioPublication Date: October 25, 2017Publication Type: Academic WritingThis article discusses the proposed introduction in EU law of an...
View ArticleTool Without A Handle: Taking Space Seriously
As I’ve been writing about networked information technologies as “tools,” it’s worth reiterating that metaphors of space are not entirely without value, including in areas of the law that derive from...
View ArticleSESTA and the Teachings of Intermediary Liability
LocationUnited StatesSee map: Google MapsAuthor(s): Daphne KellerPublication Date: November 2, 2017Publication Type: White Paper / ReportSESTA, the Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act, would overhaul US...
View ArticleWhy Keep a Dog and Bark Yourself? From Intermediary Liability to Responsibility
LocationUnited StatesSee map: Google MapsAuthor(s): Giancarlo FrosioPublication Date: November 3, 2017Publication Type: Academic WritingSince the enactment of the first safe harbours and liability...
View ArticleLaw, Borders, and Speech: Human Rights
Without a doubt, human rights law provides an important framework for the discussion of cross-border speech regulation. The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) in Article 19...
View ArticleComments on the Guidelines on Transparency under Regulation 2016/679
LocationUnited StatesSee map: Google MapsAuthor(s): Daphne KellerPublication Date: January 23, 2018Publication Type: Other Writing
View ArticleFlorida Cop Bought Powerful Phone Malware That Can Intercept Emails and WhatsApp
LocationUnited StatesSee map: Google MapsDate published: January 24, 2018Motherboard"Riana Pfefferkorn, the cryptography fellow at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society, told Motherboard in an...
View ArticleLaw, Borders, and Speech: Black Letter Law
The topic of how well the tool of black letter law works in the Internet law setting is of course huge, and associated with obvious definitional challenges. To point to but one; how ought we define...
View ArticlePopularity doesn't equal truth.
Popularity doesn't equal truth. And yet Facebook's recent proposal to rank the trustworthiness of news sources based on popularity is loosely equating truth with popularity. In so doing, Facebook may...
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