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Uber Isolated by Partners and Competitors in Aftermath of Crash
"The self-driving vehicle community has long discussed the potential dangers of a "Hindenberg" for self-driving vehicles, Bryant Walker Smith, a…
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Comment in response to European Commission's March 2018 Recommendation on measures to further improve the effectiveness of the fight against illegal content online
The European Commission's March 2018 Recommendation on measures to further improve the effectiveness of the fight against illegal content online calls on In…
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Call For Papers: The Cambridge Handbook of Surveillance and Race
The editors of the forthcoming Cambridge Handbook of Surveillance and Race seek additional contributors. This volume will bring together the work of leading sch…
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Worried about what Facebook knows about you? Check out Google
"What Curran found is the reality that Google's millions of users face every day, said Scott J. Shackelford, an associate business professor at Indiana…
FOSTA: The New Anti-Sex-Trafficking Legislation May Not End the Internet, But It’s Not Good Law Either
Amid the chaos of the last week, one of the most significant pieces of internet legislation of the last two decades went relatively unnoticed. Most people likel…
Zuckerberg Agrees to Congressional Testimony
Woodrow Hartzog, a professor at Northeastern University Law School, discusses Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s agreement to appear before the House Energy and Com…
Is Tricking a Robot Hacking?
Abstract The term “hacking” has come to signify breaking into a computer system. A number of local, national, and international laws seek to hold hackers accou…
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A sad irony for Governor Ducey after Uber's fatal crash
Following Uber’s fatal crash in Arizona, Governor Doug Ducey is attracting attention for what he did and did not do. This is not surprising; as I noted in 2016,…
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Appeals court revives Oracle's copyright claim against Google
"Annemarie Bridy, a professor of intellectual property at the University of Idaho College of Law, said in an interview the ruling could stifle software inn…
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Facebook under scrutiny as FTC confirms it is investigating privacy practices
""The FTC was never created as a pure data protection authority, but it's stepped in to fill the void," said Woodrow Hartzog, a law and compu…
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How to Win the Privacy War With Facebook
"This may be the first true large-scale reckoning for the information age, a 21st-century problem screaming for an immediate answer. Woodrow Hartzog, a pro…
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Why Now? Facebook’s “Perfect Storm” Reinvigorates Old Privacy Fears
"“There hasn’t been a real vivid example of how information is extracted on a massive scale and then weaponized against you,” said Woodrow Hartzog, a profe…