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By Center for Internet and Society • August 9, 2012 at 8:21 am
Report by David Gobaud, Michael Stolte and Francesca Svarcas Read more » about Report by the CIS Summer Research Interns on the Transportation Research Board’s 2012 Workshop on the Future of Road Vehicle Automation
By Jennifer Granick • August 8, 2012 at 12:03 pm
Yesterday, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals dismissed a lawsuit against the U.S. Government by Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation, a now-defunct charity that federal agents said was a terrorist group. Read more » about Ninth Circuit Gives Government a Pass On Warrantless Wiretapping
By Jennifer Granick • August 7, 2012 at 9:54 am
Last week, the U.S. Department of Justice's (DOJ) criminal prosecution of British citizen Richard O'Dwyer for operating a site called TVShack hit what ought to be a major stumbling block. TVShack allows users to link to other computer servers that host television shows and movies. Clicking on the link will allow the user to watch those videos from those sites in a frame on TVShack. Read more » about TVShack Extradition Case Tumbling as Seventh Circuit Holds Linking/Streaming is Lawful
By Jennifer Granick • August 6, 2012 at 9:14 pm
Last week a story appeared in Fortune magazine hypothesizing that Google and Facebook are using cy pres settlements of privacy class actions to improperly channel money to civil liberties groups that reliably support "the tech sector side" in disputes with copyright owners, including my organization, Stanford Law School's Center for Internet and Society. Read more » about No Surprise, CIS Reliably Sides With Users
By Eric E. Johnson • July 31, 2012 at 6:53 pm
Google's Sergey Brin and Eric Schmidt are on Twitter. Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg is on Google Plus. And Twitter's Jack Dorsey is on Facebook. Read more » about The Industry of Good Feelings
By Bryant Walker Smith • July 31, 2012 at 1:58 pm
In honor of anyone who just took a bar exam, here's the wholly hypothetical scenario I used at last week's excellent multidiscliplinary workshop on road vehicle automation (with slight modifications): Read more » about A Self-Driving Crash Test
By Omer Tene • July 30, 2012 at 5:04 pm
Photo: Like its namesake, the European Data Protection Directive ("DPD"), this Mercedes is old, German-designed, clunky and noisy – yet effective. [Photo: Omer Tene] Read more » about There is no new thing under the sun
By Bruce B. Cahan • July 29, 2012 at 3:23 am
Appreciating the freedom to think as part of the CIS Community Read more » about Looking back 5 Years, and designing forward
By Omer Tene • July 26, 2012 at 10:44 pm
I am delighted to have been invited to guest blog on Concurring Opinions for the next few weeks. I am re-posting here with permission a shorter version of my posts there. Read more » about Privacy: For the Rich or for the Poor?
By Brett Frischmann • July 24, 2012 at 5:59 am
Two published book reviews!
An Uncommonly Open Approach, written by Edella Schlager, was published in Science.
Paul de Bijl published a review in the Journal of Information Policy. Read more » about Two New Book Reviews
