The Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School is a leader in the study of the law and policy around the Internet and other emerging technologies.
Patrick Lin is the director of the Ethics + Emerging Sciences Group, based at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. He has published several books and papers in the field of technology ethics, especially with respect to nanotechnology, human enhancement, robotics, and military technologies. He teaches courses in ethics, political philosophy, philosophy of technology, and philosophy of law. Dr. Read more » about Patrick Lin
Assistant Professor, Legal Studies and Business Ethics, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
Dr. Andrea M. Matwyshyn is a leading authority on corporate information security regulation, commercial and consumer privacy law, and technology law. She studies "hackers" - both destructive and entrepreneurial - and the legal and developmental psychology consequences of machine-human convergence, particularly for children. Read more » about Andrea Matwyshyn
Andrew McLaughlin is a technology law and policy nerd. He is Executive Director of Civic Commons, a new non-profit that help cities and other governments share and implement low-cost technologies to improve public services, management, accountability, transparency, and citizen engagement. He is also a director of Code for America. Read more » about Andrew McLaughlin
Brian Hayden Pascal is a lawyer, consultant, and general solver of problems who is particularly interested in the challenges that arise when scientific innovation and technical ability outstrip extant intellectual, legal, and ethical frameworks. Brian has served in a variety of roles at the interface of technology, law, policy, and business. He has been a civil liberties engineer with Palantir Technologies, a cybersecurity and privacy consultant with IBM, and an attorney with the firm of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati. Read more » about Brian Hayden Pascal
By Jennifer Granick • March 12, 2013 at 1:59 pm
Tomorrow, the U.S. House Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing on reforming the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA). Before you start thinking, "it's about time", note that the witness list includes someone from the Department of Justice, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Business Software Alliance. The only reform proponent is former computer crime prosecutor Orin Kerr, now a Professor at George Washington University Law School. Read more » about Congressional Hearing Tomorrow on CFAA Reform
By Jennifer Granick • March 6, 2013 at 12:21 pm
Today, Rep. Zoe Lofgren in conjunction with Reps. Read more » about ECPA Reform Bill Announced
By Jennifer Granick • February 20, 2013 at 3:02 pm
Thanks to our speakers and everyone who came out last night for the Innovation or Exploitation event, highlighting problems the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) poses for security research, innovation, tinkering, academic research and libraries. I learned a lot, including that much of what librarians do today -- like making court records and academic articles widely available and cataloging books -- requires "scraping" and da Read more » about Innovation or Exploitation Wrap Up
By Jennifer Granick • February 15, 2013 at 3:17 pm
In the face of efforts to reform the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA), some buinesses have told lawmakers that the CFAA should be used to punish breach of contract where the breacher acted "for purposes of commercial advantage or private financial gain". Such a proposal does not fix the ability of prosecutors to go after people for disregarding terms of service.
Worse, the idea is unprecedented, dangerous and unacceptable. Read more » about Why Breach of Contract Should Never Be A Crime
February 21, 2013
Have you ever borrowed a smartphone without asking? Modified a URL? Scraped a website? Called an undocumented API? Congratulations: you might have violated federal law! A 1986 statute, the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA), provides both civil and criminal remedies for mere "unauthorized" access to a computer. Read more » about Innovation or Exploitation (Video)
February 21, 2013
Have you ever borrowed a smartphone without asking? Modified a URL? Scraped a website? Called an undocumented API? Congratulations: you might have violated federal law! A 1986 statute, the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA), provides both civil and criminal remedies for mere "unauthorized" access to a computer. Read more » about Innovation or Exploitation? (Audio)
December 12, 2012
CIS Non-Residential Fellow Marcia Hoffman participated in a Hacker Hotshot session where she discussed legal issues in mobile security research. Read more » about Legal Issues in Mobile Security Research
July 24, 2012
Synopsis: CODE 2600 documents the rise of the Information Technology Age as told through the events and people who helped build and manipulate it. The film explores the impact this new connectivity has on our ability to remain human while maintaining our personal privacy and security. As we struggle to comprehend the wide-spanning socio-technical fallout causd by data collection and social networks, oru modern culture is caught in an undercurrent of cyber-attacks, identity theft and privacy invasion. Read more » about CODE 2600
January 13, 2012
Steven Cherry interviews Professor Barbara van Schewick about Verizon and Google Wallet.
Transcripts of the interview at IEEE Spectrum. Read more » about Verizon Versus Google Wallet
November 15, 2011
Evgeny Morozov and Andrew McLaughlin debated the sincerity, utility and repercussions of America's commitment to a free Internet. They discussed the desireability of network neutrality and network regulation in the context of US foreign policy, the ways to balance user privacy with the growing needs of law enforcement agencies; and the emerging threats to freedom of expression that are inherent in the technical design as well as the business imperatives of today's Web. Read more » about Internet Freedoms and Their Consequences - An Evening Debate with Andrew McLaughlin & Evgeny Morozov - Video
