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…
The ongoing claims against the Rojadirecta website for linking to streams of sporting events are novel and quite important in defining the rights and responsibi…
We here at CIS are delighted to welcome Giancarlo Frosio to our team. Giancarlo is our new Intermediary Liability Fellow, studying the ways that liabilities, i…
Cross-posted from Ammori.org In recent months, some copyright holders, pharmaceutical companies, and state attorneys general have made allegations against Inte…
Recent research suggests a new trend among paranoid schizophrenics: they believe they are secretly being taped by hidden cameras for purposes of a reality show.…
On July 30, 2013, I had the pleasure of having dinner with General Keith Alexander, Director of the National Security Agency. Just a few weeks earlier, NYU Law…
Daniel Solove and I have recently posted a draft of our new article, The FTC and the New Common Law of Privacy. One of the great ironies about information priv…
CIS affiliates Ryan Calo and Woodrow Hartzog won the two best paper awards at the 2013 Privacy Law Scholars Conference. Ryan Calo for his paper “Digital Market…
The Stanford Center for Internet and Society, where I am an affiliate scholar, is a thought leader on consumer privacy and a source for potential solutions. Th…
During a rare mid-afternoon late summer Friday press conference, President Obama outlined several actions that he believes will help restore American citizens&#…
The latest chapter in the ongoing tale of NSA overreach may be the most troubling one yet. Reuters has revealed that NSA has been sharing information with a sec…
Today, Lavabit, an email service provider that promised its customers better privacy and security than other publicly available services, shut its doors. Readi…
Cross-posted from EFF. Should a minor celebrity's right to wring every drop he can from his fame trump the right to create a realistic work? The Ninth Circ…