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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...

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Beyond Snowden: Privacy, Mass Surveillance and the Struggle to Reform the NSA

 RSVP is required for this free event. September 14, 2017Stanford Law School

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Steve 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...

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First 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

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Steve 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...

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Internet 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...

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Academics 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...

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The 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...

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Congress 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...

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Congress’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...

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The 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...

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To 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...

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Tool 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...

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SESTA 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...

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Why 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...

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Law, 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...

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Comments on the Guidelines on Transparency under Regulation 2016/679

LocationUnited StatesSee map: Google MapsAuthor(s): Daphne KellerPublication Date: January 23, 2018Publication Type: Other Writing

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Florida 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...

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Law, 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...

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Popularity 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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