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The Lawyering Behind Facebook's IPO

By Eric E. Johnson • May 18, 2012 at 8:23 am

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Today, Facebook does its IPO - initial public offering. That means it begins offering shares of its stock for public trading on a stock exchange.

Non-lawyers out there may be wondering what is involved, legally speaking, in "going public"? Read more » about The Lawyering Behind Facebook's IPO

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Judge Napolitano: Shoot down a drone, become an American hero

Date published:
May 17, 2012
RT.com
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Is Trademarking a Baby Name Going too Far?

Date published:
May 17, 2012
MSNBC
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Princess awards First Amendment lawyer "Defender of Internet" medal for SOPA fight

Date published:
May 17, 2012
BoingBoing
Constitutional law expert (and CIS Affiliate Scholar) Marvin Ammori, one of the First Amendment scholars along with Larry Tribe who explained how SOPA would violate the First Amendment, shares a wonderful story with Boing Boing.

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Location Bill Would Slow Down Investigations, Officials Say

Date published:
May 17, 2012
PC Mag
"Requiring law enforcement agents to secure a warrant based upon probable cause before obtaining geolocational information would allow legitimate investigations to proceed, while ensuring that innocent Americans are protected from intrusions into their privacy," said Catherine Crump, CIS Non-Residential Fellow.

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It’s Tinkerers v. Hollywood as Copyright Office Mulls New Jailbreaking Rules

Date published:
May 17, 2012
Wired
“This is essentially like letting consumers open the hoods of their own cars,” said Marcia Hofmann, a staff attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, which is asking for the hardware exemptions.

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The death of the boring ol' tech talk

Date published:
May 16, 2012
New Times
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The Unintended Consequences of CISPA

By Jennifer Granick • May 15, 2012 at 2:51 pm

The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act ("CISPA") is the latest example of a depressingly common situation in Washington DC -- well-meaning legislators unfamiliar with technology try to rush through a statute about a high-profile Internet issue (here, cybersecurity). Proponents of the bill say they want to faciliate information sharing between the federal government and the private sector. What they don't seem to understand is that existing laws already permit most kinds of cybersecurity information sharing. Read more » about The Unintended Consequences of CISPA
Daniel Margocsy - Hearsay Culture - Show #162 - KZSU-FM

May 14, 2012

This week, David Levine interviews Prof. Daniel Margocsy of Hunter College, co-editor of States of Secrecy, a forthcoming volume of the British Journal for the History of Science. Read more » about Daniel Margocsy - Hearsay Culture - Show #162 - KZSU-FM
Hamilton Bean - Hearsay Culture - Show #161 - KZSU-FM

May 14, 2012

This week, David Levine interviews Prof. Hamilton Bean of the University of Colorado Denver, author of the book No More Secrets: Open Source Information and the Reshaping of U.S. Intelligence. Read more » about Hamilton Bean - Hearsay Culture - Show #161 - KZSU-FM

Of Interest

The Lawyering Behind Facebook's IPO

Location

Judge Napolitano: Shoot down a drone, become an American hero

Is Trademarking a Baby Name Going too Far?

Princess awards First Amendment lawyer "Defender of Internet" medal for SOPA fight

Location Bill Would Slow Down Investigations, Officials Say

It’s Tinkerers v. Hollywood as Copyright Office Mulls New Jailbreaking Rules

The death of the boring ol' tech talk

The Unintended Consequences of CISPA

Daniel Margocsy - Hearsay Culture - Show #162 - KZSU-FM

Hamilton Bean - Hearsay Culture - Show #161 - KZSU-FM

Pages

Legal Frontiers in Digital Media

IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy: Web Security

Robots, Privacy & Society

Conference on Web Privacy Measurement (WPM)