I submitted a comment to the California State Bar's Standing Committee on Professional Responsibility and Conduct (COPRAC) on its proposed amendments to the…
In Robert Penn Warren’s All the King’s Men, the author compares the law to a blanket. When used by a big family in the same bed, one family member tugs on the b…
On March 31, I gave a virtual guest lecture in Mailyn Fidler’s course “The Digital Fourth Amendment” at Harvard Law School. Prof. Fidler invited me to come talk…
Author: José Mauro Vicki J. Pinero sued Jackson Hewitt Tax Service Inc. (“Jackson Hewitt”) for not complying with its own privacy policy and dumping her tax re…
Author: Matt Kellogg In the Northern District of California, the District Court granted Google’s motion to dismiss in a suit claiming that Google had been comp…
The ACLU of Northern California has published a primer (PDF) on the advantages to businesses of good privacy and free speech practices. The primer assembles ma…
CIS is now on Twitter! Follow our tweets @StanfordCIS!…
This quote belongs to Robin Bienfait, RIM’s Chief Information Office (CIO). RIM makes the BlackBerries, and the title line of this post recites Ms. Bienfait’s a…
“Robots again.” That’s how federal appellate judge Alex Kozinski begins his dissent from the Ninth Circuit’s decision not to rehear Wendt v. Host International…
The Powder & the Glory, part of the Fair Use Project's Documentary Film Program, will have its broadcast premiere on PBS Monday March 23, 2009 at 10PM (…
As if we privacy advocates didn't have enough to worry about, this sea otter apparently got a hold of a video camera and was "filming" tourists. W…
The next Legally Speaking - cosponsored by the California Lawyer and Hastings Law School - will feature Lawrence Lessig. It's scheduled for March 19. CLE cr…
David Boren, senator from Oklahoma from 1979 to 1994, in the Post two days ago: "History demonstrates that bipartisanship is not an impractical, romantic n…
The New York Times runs an interesting Open-Ed piece by Kenneth M. Duberstein today: 1,000 Points of Data . While it remains to be seen if governmental data is…
Facebook trends proceed at a spooky (in the quantum sense) pace. It took the New York Times all of a week to pick up on 25 Random Things. I’ve noticed a subtl…