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 Wired. Every so often in human history, something new comes along that warrants a celebration, and that deserves its own holiday. That’s why…
Konomark is my project with CIS. In this post, I’m reporting the results of the first phase of my beta test. Konomark aims to encourage the sharing of copyrigh…
In this post, I apply the “tool” metaphor to two common concerns with respect to online services and privacy: profanity in discussion fora and the publication…
Today, Senator Ron Wyden agreed to forego his procedural hold that would prevent the Senate from voting on extending the FISA Amendments Act, due to expire at t…
CALL FOR PAPERS Deadline for proposals: January 18, 2013 The program committee of We Robot: Getting Down To Business invites submissions from legal scholars a…
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Fourth Amendment jurisprudence has always had a contentious relationship with innovation. From wiretapping pay phones to GPS units, advancing technology has con…
Advocates for renewal of the FISA Amendments Act (FAA) often argue that the statute poses no more harm to the privacy of innocent Americans than does the Wireta…
Taking a close look at the Senate Intelligence Committee report on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) Amendments Act (FAA) renewal helps explain w…
Cross-posted from The Knockoff Economy. We have a new post up on the Freakonomics blog about the dispute between Google and a group of European newspapers. Th…
Next week, the lame duck Congress will take up the issue of whether to extend the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) Amendments Act (FAA) of 2008. Th…
I recently moved from San Francisco to Seattle. Among my concerns were (a) weather, (b) Mexican food, and (c) the technology sector. There is a sea of clouds…