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Man ridicules Olive Garden’s demand letter over trademark dispute
""I would think that in this case—a non-commercial site reviewing Olive Garden pasta—the claim of infringement is very, very weak," Daniel Nazer,…
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More Details on Trump, Russia, and the Mysterious Magnitsky Connection
As reported Monday by Rob Berschinski and Adam Nagy, the Magnitsky Act is back in the news in connection with media reporting on the June 2016 meeting between R…
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Cyberattack on Ukrainian clinics, pharmacies worries experts
"Scott Shackelford, the chair of the Cybersecurity Program at Indiana University in Bloomington, said that the past progress toward setting international n…
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Kharitonov v Russia Will Set Boundaries for Constitutionally Acceptable Website (Over)Blocking
The European Court of Human Rights will soon hear a key case on website blocking and freedom of expression online - Kharitonov v Russia (app no. 10795/14). The…
Trump has no long-term foreign policy vision. Here’s how that’s hurting America
Thomas Wright is the director of the Brookings Institution’s Center on the United States and Europe, and a senior fellow at Brookings. His new book, “All Measur…
State Dept. Office of Global Criminal Justice on the Chopping Block–Time to save it
Word out of Washington is that the Trump Administration has started to restructure the State Department and particularly the Under-Secretariat for Civilian Secu…
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Elon Musk's Freak-Out Over Killer Robots Distracts from Our Real AI Problems
"Musk has spoken out before about AI end times, in 2014 he likened working on the technology to “summoning the demon.” His propensity for raising sci-fi sc…
Why cyberattacks could be war crimes
Cyberattacks are the new normal, but, when they come from abroad, they can raise panic about an invisible cyberwar. If international conflicts are unavoidable,…
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Report faults California’s electronic monitoring of youth
"“We learned that the monitors may be setting kids up for failure,” said Catherine Crump, director of the Samuelson Law, Technology & Public Policy Cli…
Even the intellectual left is drawn to conspiracy theories about the right. Resist them.
It’s always hard in politics for people to take their opponents’ views seriously, but it has become ever harder in Trump’s America. People are more engaged with…
Trump Twitter Lawsuit Raises First Amendment Issues For Politics On Social Media
President Trump has blocked Twitter followers on his personal feed--raising questions, and a lawsuit, about first amendment rights on social media. An expert o…
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When Companies Get Hacked, Should They Be Allowed to Hack Back?
"Patrick Lin, a professor of philosophy at California Polytechnic State University, has finer-grained logistical concerns about any legislation that opens…