The Rhetoric of “Responsible Encryption”
Last week, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein gave a speech about encryption that prompted a considerable amount of well-deserved blowback. His speech rehas…
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Academics Recommend to Drop Filtering Obligations from the EU Copyright Reform
As you might have noticed, there is a lot of activism on the copyright/intermediary liability side in Europe at the moment. Hence, I'm here announcing anoth…
We say black lives matter. The FBI says that makes us a security threat.
This past summer, the FBI’s Counterterrorism Division, which investigates terrorist threats from groups such as al-Qaeda, invented a brand new label and a brand…
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Internet Archive Hopes to Help Libraries Make Available Books Once Thought Trapped By Copyright
"“It turns out there’s a lot of weird questions that come up,” Townsend Gard says. The substitution of a comma for a colon in a book’s title can be enough…
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What happens to your email after you die?
"Albert Gidari, director of privacy for Stanford University Law School’s Center for Internet and Society in California, thoroughly disagrees with his colle…
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2017’s States Most Vulnerable to Identity Theft & Fraud
"What measures can authorities undertake in order to avoid cases like the recent Equifax leaks? Should credit bureaus be tested for security breaches by au…
Is the FBI Setting the Stage for Increased Surveillance of Black Activists?
A recently leaked FBI “Intelligence Assessment” contains troubling signs that the FBI is scrutinizing and possibly surveilling Black activists in its search for…
Data Extraterritoriality
Data’s intangibility poses significant difficulties for determining where data is located. The problem is not that data is located nowhere, but that it may be l…
Would the United States Be Responsible for Private Hacking?
Rep. Tom Graves (R-GA) and Rep. Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) introduced the Active Cyber Defense Certainty Act (H.R. 4036) in the House of Representatives on Oct. 13.…
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CEIPI Opinion on Copyright Limitations' Reform in the European Digital Single Market
The Centre for International Intellectual Property Studies (CEIPI) has just published a position paper, which I have co-authored with Christophe Geiger and Olek…
This year’s economics Nobel winner invented a tool that’s both brilliant and undemocratic
Richard Thaler, of the University of Chicago, just won the Nobel Memorial Prize in economics for his contribution to behavioral economics — the subfield known f…
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EU Push to Filter 'Illegal' Content Raises Alarms in Silicon Valley
"“Lawyers should be emphatically paying attention,” said Andrew Bridges, who represents tech firms in copyright disputes at Fenwick & West. “I think th…