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…
Quoted verbatim from a recent DMCA takedown letter: IMPORTANT NOTICE: None of the information contained in this legal notice is to be transmitted and/or relea…
Ernst & Young released its annual privacy report this week predicting that “Organizations are expected to invest more money to protect personal information…
Here’s an interesting (to me, at least) trade secret case involving restoration of antique aircraft. Brent Taylor purchased the carcass of an F-45, a 1930s era…
This award-winning feature-length documentary details why there are more single 30-something women in the U.S. than ever before, and whether women of all ages a…
Sounds like a strange heading, I know. Well – here’s the strange story to go along with it: Israeli daily Haaretz reports on its front page today that Israel de…
UPDATE: Briefing for the cert. stage is now complete. You can read the government's opposition to our cert. petition here, and our reply in support of our c…
High achievers such as Stanford law students and global privacy leaders don't usually revel in being called "adequate". But the European Commissio…
Emeritus Stanford Computer Science Professor Gio Wiederhold provides in the January 2011 issue of Communications of the ACM (1) (the monthly journal of the prof…
The outbreak of civil unrest in Egypt this week has unfolded with rapid momentum. As in Tunisia, access to video, Twitter and other feeds at first appeared to…
Valérie Laure Benabou, a law professor at the University of Versailles and an esteemed expert on French and international copyright law, kindly agreed to share…
The intuition that privacy and innovation are somehow opposed is surprisingly common. It is true that overzealous or reactionary appeals to privacy can cut of…
We're pleased to announce we're beginning work on an IETF Internet-Draft for the Do Not Track header. We look forward to incorporating broad feedback.…