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By Kate Westmoreland • April 29, 2013 at 11:22 am
"Jennifer Granick, director of civil liberties at the Stanford Law School Center for Internet and Society, said prosecutors have been guilty of “overreach” in their handling of computer cases such as those of Auernheimer and Swartz." Read more » about As cyberthreats mount, hacker’s conviction underscores criticism of government overreach
""You could use these to directly interact with the brain," said Ryan Calo, assistant law professor at the University of Washington focused on privacy and robotics, in a recent presentation at Stanford. "You could get up to all sorts of mischief."" Read more » about Brain hack: Researchers fear attacks on the mind
Anonymity is a key part of privacy. Many activists choose to use Tor, an open source anonymity tool run via the non-profit Tor Foundation. In this talk, Greg Norcie will discuss the usability of Tor, a commonly used anonymity tool. Read more » about Free Speech in Practice: A Usability Evaluation of the Tor Browser Bundle
April 26, 2013
The Michigan Law Review recently published “The Fight to Frame Privacy,” Woodrow Hartzog's book review of Daniel Solove’s “Nothing to Hide: The False Tradeoff Between Privacy and Security.”
Read the full review here: http://www.michiganlawreview.org/articles/the-fight-to-frame-privacy Read more » about The Fight to Frame Privacy
""It's likely a landmark decision on the issue of appropriation art and what you can do with the existing work," said Julie Ahrens, of the Stanford Law Center for Internet and Society." Read more » about Analysis: 'Landmark' ruling says commentary not needed for fair use defense
By Julie Ahrens • April 25, 2013 at 6:12 pm
Today the Second Circuit Court of Appeals issued a long-awaited decision in favor of fair use in Cariou v. Prince. Reversing the district court’s finding of infringement, the Court held that Richard Prince’s use of Patrick Cariou’s photographs in 25 of his 30 Canal Series paintings was a fair use. The decision affirms an important tradition in modern art that relies on the appropriation of existing images to create highly expressive works with new meaning. Read more » about Second Circuit Victory for Richard Prince and Appropriation Art
By Jennifer Granick • April 25, 2013 at 4:26 pm
This has been a busy Internet law week. I'd like to sum up some of the more interesting developments: Read more » about A Big Week for News in Internet Policy
By Richard Forno • April 25, 2013 at 1:33 pm
According to a US News report, a spokesperson for the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation suggests that the Senate will not take up CISPA 2.0 and instead will work towards breaking it up into separate bills. The article also quotes Committee chairman Senator Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) confirming what many of us have been saying: that CISPA 2.0's privacy protections "were insufficient." Read more » about CISPA 2.0 Likely Stalled in Senate
