The Inconsequential Choice-Of-Law Question Posed By Jesner V. Arab Bank
Abstract In Jesner v. Arab Bank, the United States (U.S.) Supreme Court has taken up the question of whether victims of human rights abuses can sue corporation…
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Bots of the Internet, Reveal Yourselves!
"Mr. Calo cited as an example a driverless car law passed by Nevada in 2012, which met with protest from luxury carmakers. They were miffed that the techno…
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How AT&T’s plan to become the new Facebook could be a privacy nightmare
"“It’s tens of billions of dollars on the table, at a minimum. So of course they want to be in this market,” says Jonathan Mayer, an assistant professor at…
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How Wireless Carriers Get Permission to Share Your Whereabouts
"“That was a green light for telecommunications carriers to monetize customer location data,” said Stanford University law professor Al Gidari, who helped…
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US: Government Has Planted Spy Phones With Suspects
"Even if authorized by a warrant, the dissemination of vulnerable devices could create a risk of significant harm. Riana Pfefferkorn, a cryptography fellow…
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'Data is a fingerprint': why you aren't as anonymous as you think online
"“Once our data gets out there, it tends to be stored forever,” said Arvind Narayanan, a Princeton computer science professor. “There are firms that specia…
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Two Senators Call for Investigation of Smart TV Industry
"“In terms of practical things the F.T.C. could do, one is filing additional enforcement actions, which, in addition to curtailing individual companies’ pr…
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El Chapo's Lawyers want to Suppress Evidence from Spyware Used to Catch Cheating Spouses
"Riana Pfefferkorn, a cryptography fellow at the Stanford Law School’s Center for Internet and Society, said FlexiSPY is “kind of an app version of a wire.…
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Uber axes 100 ‘operator’ positions in self-driving cars
"Bryant Walker Smith, assistant professor at the University of South Carolina’s law school, who writes regularly about autonomous driving, said Uber’s trai…
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The Cybersecurity 202: Privacy advocates blast Kavanaugh for government surveillance support
"Kavanaugh could be a “potential vote for retrenchment on privacy and the Fourth Amendment,” said Albert Gidari, director of privacy at the Stanford Center…
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Criminal case sheds light on Apple self-driving car technology
"The technical detail in the complaint "would only have been possible if Apple complied" with investigators, said Bryant Walker Smith, an assista…
Digital Switzerlands
Abstract U.S. technology companies are increasingly standing as competing power centers that challenge the primacy of governments. This power brings with it th…