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By Brett Frischmann on May 14, 2018 at 12:55 pm
Co-authored with Evan Selinger. Read more about Deprogramming Students and Teachers
By Ryan E. Long on May 9, 2018 at 2:42 pm
If your pet dog Hans takes a selfie, does he own the copyright? A recent decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (“Ninth Circuit”) is instructive. It says that a monkey can’t own the copyright to his selfie. The reason? Only humans can own a copyright under U.S. law. But who owns artificial intelligence (“AI”) created artwork? This entry addresses that issue. Read more about Artificial intelligence art -- who owns the copyright?
By Center for Internet and Society on May 8, 2018 at 6:55 am
Stanford Law School today announced the appointment of Dr. Jennifer King as Director of Consumer Privacy at the Center for Internet and Society (CIS). Dr. King will lead the center’s research efforts in consumer privacy. Dr. King joins Albert Gidari, Consulting Director of Privacy, who focuses on government surveillance and enforcement, cross border data issues, and electronic surveillance. Read more about Stanford Law School Appoints Jennifer King as Director of Consumer Privacy, Center for Internet and Society
By Daphne Keller on May 1, 2018 at 1:57 pm
Canada's Office of the Privacy Commissioner has concluded that an existing law, the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA), gives individuals legal power to make individual websites take down information. This goes well beyond the rights recognized by the European Court of Justice in its “right to be forgotten” case, and raises the following important questions Read more about Taking Information Down from Source Websites Under Data Protection Law
By Daphne Keller on May 1, 2018 at 1:53 pm
Should Canada adopt its own version of the “right to be forgotten”? The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (OPC) recently concluded, in a Draft Position Paper, that such a right actually exists already. According to the OPC, Canada’s Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA) gives individuals legal power to make search engines like Google de-list search results about them, and to make individual websites take down information. In a Comment filed last week, I argued that this interpretation of PIPEDA will create far more problems than it solves. Read more about A Right to Be Forgotten in Canada?
By Riana Pfefferkorn on April 26, 2018 at 2:30 pm
Steven Levy, who’s been covering the crypto wars for a quarter-century, has a long article out in Wired about Ray Ozzie’s technical proposal for a key-escrow-based exceptional-access scheme to give law enforcement access to encrypted smartphones. Read more about Ray Ozzie’s Key-Escrow Proposal Does Not Solve the Encryption Debate -- It Makes It Worse
By Riana Pfefferkorn on April 18, 2018 at 2:42 pm
Before I built a wall I’d ask to know
What I was walling in or walling out,
And to whom I was like to give offense.
Something there is that doesn't love a wall,
That wants it down.
- Robert Frost, "Mending Wall" Read more about The Dark Side of the “Apple vs. FBI” OIG Report
By Megan Gray on April 18, 2018 at 1:10 pm
This new white paper, entitled “Understanding and Improving Privacy ‘Audits’ under FTC Orders,” carefully parses the third-party audits that Google and Facebook are required to conduct under their 2012 Federal Trade Commission consent orders. Using only publicly available documents, the article contrasts the FTC’s high expectations for the audits with what the FTC actually received (as released to the public in redacted form). Read more about Understanding & Improving Privacy "Audits" under FTC Orders
By Bryant Walker Smith on April 18, 2018 at 12:40 pm
Tesla can do better than its current public response to the recent fatal crash involving one of its vehicles. I would like to see more introspection, credibility, and nuance.
Introspection Read more about Tesla's Fatal Crash
By Barbara van Schewick on April 16, 2018 at 11:02 am
The California Senate's Energy and Utilities Committee published its analysis of Senator Scott Wiener's California net neutrality bill on Monday morning. It’s bad. Here’s a short overview of the suggested amendments and a rebuttal of the key arguments related to interconnection and access charges. Read more about California Senate Committee Recommends Cutting Key Net Neutrality Protections
