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,...
View ArticleAs human laws grapple with robots, there are no easy answers
Date published: April 7, 2014Ars Technica"At the conference, cyberlaw professor Ryan Calo discussed his forthcoming paper "Robotics and the New Cyberlaw." Internet law defined the vanguard of cyberlaw...
View ArticlePoll: Tech Companies Encroach Too Much on Personal Data
Date published: April 7, 2014Fox Business"Public sensitivity about privacy was heightened by revelations of U.S. surveillance activities by the National Security Agency, as leaked by former spy...
View ArticleConnecting the Dots Between Cookies and Identities
Date published: April 7, 2014Threatpost"Assuming an adversary, whether a criminal or intelligence agency, has a presence on the network, the working premise here is that the first- and third-party...
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Robo cops can not turn a blind eye
Listen to the full radio show (in German) at Deutschlandradio.(English translation): "On the other hand: even algorithms can make mistakes. You will eventually written by humans. And just legal texts...
View ArticleMarch 2014 in Retrospect: Intermediary Liability News and More from the...
Retrospect is the monthly newsletter of the Internet & Jurisdiction Project - a global multi-stakeholder dialogue process that explores the tension between the cross-border nature of the Internet...
View ArticleBig Privacy Win in the EU
Today, the European Court of Justice struck down the European Union’s 2006 Data Retention Directive. That policy required member states to force communications companies to store citizens'...
View ArticleIn Standoff with FTC, Wyndham Shoots Itself in the Foot
The Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) resounding victory over Wyndham Worldwide Corporation in a U.S. District Court paves the way for increasing privacy and data security action by the agency, which...
View ArticleThe Morning Risk Report: FTC Wins Wyndham Skirmish, Battle Goes On
Date published: April 9, 2014The Wall Street Journal"Andrea Matwyshyn, a professor of law and business ethics at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, and an advisor to the FTC told Risk...
View ArticleMy Comments On NSA Spying to PCLOB
Today I filed comments with the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB) in connection with its hearing on section 702 of the FISA Amendments Act. That law is the legal basis for the PRISM...
View ArticleECPA reform is not just a U.S. issue
It doesn’t matter where in the world a police officer is, if he or she wants to access an individual’s Gmail or Facebook records (or many other US-based products), that access is governed by the...
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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