First Amendment and FX Triumph in “Feud” Right of Publicity Case
In a big win for free speech, the California Court of Appeal has rejected Olivia de Havilland’s right of publicity and false light claims against FX. The court’…
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Is affiliate marketing disclosed to consumers on social media?
YouTube has millions of videos similar in spirit to this one: The video reviews Blue Apron—an online grocery service—describing how it is efficient and cheaper…
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Facebook's FTC probe rocked the stock. But will anything rein in Facebook?
""If I were Facebook, I would be quite nervous about popular sentiment," University of Washington law professor Ryan Calo said. "Facebook s…
Week In Geek Podcast: What will it take for us to quit Facebook?
Facebook is still reeling from the revelation that a British firm, Cambridge Analytica, improperly used millions of its users’ data. #DeleteFacebook is trending…
The Courts Can Handle the Deadly Uber Self-Driving Car Crash
This article is adapted from a forthcoming peer-reviewed essay in Volume 61 of the Communications of the ACM. The pedestrian who was struck and killed by a sel…
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Defending the Digital Frontier: Why We Need a Civil Rights Framework for the Internet
"As Malkia Cyril, the executive director of the Oakland-based Center for Media Justice and co-founder of the Media Action Grassroots Network (MAG-Net), tol…
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What Heavier Regulation Could Wind Up Costing Facebook
"Richard Forno, assistant director of University of Maryland, Baltimore County's Center for Cybersecurity, said that while he doesn't think Congres…
How Self-Driving Car Policy Will Determine Life, Death and Everything In-Between
Self-driving cars are here. More are on their way. Major automakers and Silicon Valley giants are clamoring to develop and release fully autonomous cars to safe…
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The role of humans in self-driving cars is even more complicated after Uber's fatal crash
"“On two separate occasions, the driver seems to be looking down at something for nearly five seconds,” says Bryant Walker Smith, a leading legal expert in…
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Tool Without A Handle: Online Confessions
In my last post,[1] I wrote of moral hazards created by privacy, using extramarital affairs as just one example (really, any legal or moral wrongdoing facilitat…
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Experts say self-driving Uber should've spotted pedestrian in deadly crash
""The victim did not come out of nowhere. She's moving on a dark road, but it's an open road, so Lidar and radar should have detected and clas…
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'Once it's out there, it's out there': Financial crimes unit sergeant speaks to dangers of sharing personal information online
"Dr. Richard Forno is a senior lecturer, and the director of the Graduate Cybersecurity Program for the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Forno ex…