Year One: Stress Testing the Constitution
The outlandish hypothetical is in every law professor’s bag of tricks. Can a former president sue a sitting president for defamation? Can a sitting president be…
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Q&A: Stanford’s Riana Pfefferkorn on ‘Responsible Encryption’
"In this excerpt from an interview on Law.com’s “Unprecedented” podcast, Stanford Law cryptography fellow Riana Pfefferkorn talks about the Department of J…
The Looming Battle in the Crypto Wars
This week on Law.com’s Unprecedented podcast we talk with Riana Pfefferkorn, a fellow at the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School focusing on…
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The Making of an American Nazi
"But this activity is difficult to prosecute when trolls know how to conceal their identity. A lone troll might leave his victim only one voicemail telling…
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How One Woman's Digital Life Was Weaponized Against Her
"People are starting to understand “that the web watches them back,” says Aleecia McDonald, a privacy researcher at Stanford’s Center for Internet and Soci…
Techdirt Podcast Episode 144: The Perils Of Internet Platform Regulation
We've been talking about internet platform regulation for a long time, but in the past year these issues have gotten a huge amount of increased focus — for…
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Civil Rights Groups: Police Are Making Little Progress on Improving Body Cam Policies
"“By allowing officers to review footage as they write their initial incident report, it makes it easier for them to act for the camera and create multiple…
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Should police get to view bodycam footage immediately?
"“Because of what's happening around the country, officers seem to have this special advantage now where they get to view footage before writing report…
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Texas killings may aid Rosenstein’s crusade on encryption
"“It’s basically the gloves coming off,” said Riana Pfefferkorn, a cryptography fellow at Stanford University’s Center for Internet and Society. Indeed, P…
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Congress’s end run around a pillar of online free speech
"Daphne Keller of the Stanford Center for Internet and Society says that the new law could push some platforms and publishers to crack down on a wide varie…
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As mass data collection becomes the norm, concerns about surveillance are growing
"This is why conversations regarding smart city data collection sometimes miss the point. Albert Gidari, Director of Privacy at the Stanford Centre for Int…
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How to Make Cars Cooperate
"Without federal help, however, the upfront cost of connected infrastructure can be prohibitive for small towns and cities. Bryant Walker Smith, a law prof…