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…
Jan Hoffman in the NYT today: "The seventh-grade guidance counselor says she can spend up to three-fourths of her time mediating conflicts that began onli…
I’m late to the party, but I wanted to say a few things about the District Court’s decision in the Viacom v. YouTube case this week and. This will be a four-…
Representatives from the US, the EU, Japan, South Korea, Canada, Mexico, Australia, and New Zealand will convene this Monday in Lucerne for the Ninth round of A…
The Stanford Center for Internet and Society seeks scholars and practitioners interested in a formal affiliation with the Center for the 2010-2012 academic year…
Friedman in the NYT today: "Why do we have to recruit and train our allies, the Afghan Army, to fight? That is like someone coming to you with a plan to re…
Last year, we won an important victory for our clients when the District Court held the URAA violates the First Amendment insofar as it suppresses parties'…
ACM Computers Freedom Privacy is in its 20th year. This year was exciting to me in that robots entered the mix. My panel on the topic featured forecaster and…
Jamie Smarr on the NYT City Room blog: "Let’s face it, folks. The customer is not always right. In fact, some are just plain old abusive, cheap and crass.…
Not surprisingly, FCC Commissioners voted 3 to 2 yesterday to open a Notice of Inquiry on changing the classification of broadband Internet access from an “info…
Mike Sherry in the Kansas City Business Journal, "In a marital spat? There’s an app for that..." "In a knock-down-drag-out fight with your signi…
UPDATE: Facebook explains the security procedure here. Apparently they only use photos if you have not set up another verification means. Also, I have confirmat…
I was interviewed yesterday for the local Fox affiliate on Cal. SB 1411, which criminalizes online impersonations (or “e-personation”) under certain circumstanc…