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…
Cross-posted from The Atlantic Victims of non-consensual pornography, sometimes called "revenge porn," often receive little help from the law. Many w…
Judge Richard Posner took the occasion of the Boston bombing to remind us of his view that privacy should lose out to other values. Privacy, argues Judge Posne…
Cross-posted from www.katewestmoreland.wordpress.com It’s the nature of academic articles that by the time they’re published you’ve almost forgotten that you w…
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 inf…
This has been a busy Internet law week. I'd like to sum up some of the more interesting developments: This morning, the Senate Judiciary Committee approve…
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 CI…
As expected, CISPA 2.0 passed the House of Representatives yesterday and the various privacy protections sought through amendments were dropped. Although much…
Cross-posted from The Atlantic. In the year 2025, a rogue state--long suspected of developing biological weapons--now seems intent on using them against U.S. a…
Cross posted from the Robotics and the Law blog. “One of the most significant obstacles to the proliferation of autonomous cars is the fact that they are illeg…
As if we don’t have enough to worry about, now there’s spyware for your brain. Or, there could be. Researchers at Oxford, Geneva, and Berkeley have created a…
Frederick Bouchat has been serially litigating against the NFL and the Baltimore Ravens organization for more than a decade. Bouchat continues to press his clai…
Cross-posted from http://katewestmoreland.wordpress.com/ Now that Microsoft has come to the party and is publishing a regular transparency report, there is a m…