Stanford Center for Internet and Society

Will Bioterror Fears Spawn Science Censorship?

The ABA is having a conference on Computing and the Law June 25th and 26th. Here's the schedule (pdf). I'll be speaking on the 26th about the future of law and the internet. Looks like it should be an interesting event.

Last week, in United States v. Heckenkamp, the Ninth Circuit (correctly) ruled that students have a constitutionally protected reasonable expectation of privacy in their dorm room computers, but that University officials can search those computers without a warrant for school security purposes under the “special needs” exception.

CIS recently took a field trip to the Computer History Museum. My commentary and photos from the trip are here.

News: In a great article (which I'm asking for permission to post in full) by Louis Trager for Communications Daily, Tracfone is claiming that I received personal favoritism from the Copyright Office. I. Received FAVORITISM. From the COPYRIGHT OFFICE! Stop laughing and keep reading.

I weigh in on NSLs and the FBI with today’s Circuit Court column: FBI Slips Demand Patriot Act Cuts.

Alaska police are considering pursuing criminal charges against a 21 year old who was playing online games in the parking lot of the local public library. The alleged crime would be unauthorized use of an open wireless network. I'm quoted in this story about the pending investigation.

Last week, RFID access device company HID Global got IOActive researcher Chris Paget to pull his talk from Black Hat DC because they claimed that demonstrating how to clone RFID cards violated their patents in card readers. Are they nuts?

The Center for Internet and Society (CIS) at Stanford Law School is hiring a Summer Intern to work public interest issues involving technology and the Internet.

Today, a three judge panel from the Ninth Circuit withdrew its opinion in United States v. Zeigler and issued a new opinion.