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…
James Q. Wilson, the Ronald Reagan professor of public policy at Pepperdine University, has a very interesting piece in this month's Commentary. Here are s…
Feb 17- Moderating panel on "Domestic Spying—Privacy & Security Interests" at Stanford Law & Policy Review Symposium.…
Wowsers! In response to a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed by the Electronic Privacy Information Center, a federal judge has ordered (pdf) the Departme…
The EFF posted this very interesting article about the RIAA's filing in the DMCA rule-making proceedings -- apparently, the RIAA thinks that ripping my own…
H.R. 4536 proposes adding an exception to 17 U.S.C. § 1201 for circumvention of access control or copy protection provided that the circumvention is "neces…
A few days ago FT.Com ran a story (available here) about an Ohio company that has embedded RFID (radio frequency ID) technology in two of its employees. Ostens…
It disturbs me to no end to say that, when viewing these pictures (warning: they are graphic), it is difficult not to be ashamed as an American, even if these a…
"So the main idea behind the African Commons Project is about nurturing the idea of an “information commons” in Africa - discovering what that is, what it…
Some random thoughts I had about two books I read recently: "Copyright's Highway" by SLS Prof. Paul Goldstein, and "The World is Flat" b…
In yesterday’s New York Times the distinguished law professor Stanley Fish offered some provocative commentary on the recent furor over the Danish cartoons: “T…
Ever had your computer attacked by spyware? Do the names PacerD, Exfol, EliteBar, 180solutions, 3D Desktop, YupSearch, or BlazeFind sound familiar? If so, the…
I never publish press releases here but I'm going to make this exception. Patrick Ball is a pioneer in the use of technology to assist human rights activis…