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Security experts warn lawmakers of election hacking risks
"More than a hundred security researchers and computer science experts have warned in a letter to lawmakers that not enough is being done to ensure the int…
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How Uber's toxic culture forced Kalanick out
"All of these signals about Uber's culture matter. "Uber wants to court investors, employees, drivers, and riders," said Bryant Walker Smith,…
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What Packingham v. North Carolina Should Mean for the DMCA
The US Supreme Court issued opinions in two important First Amendment cases this week, one of which obviously had to do with intellectual property law (Matal v.…
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How A Company You've Never Heard Of Sends You Letters About Your Medical Condition
"Ryan Calo, a law professor at the University of Washington, said this clearly violates a user's expectation of what will happen based on the design of…
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Supreme Court Hints That Trump Can’t Legally Block You on Twitter
""It's to the credit of these companies that they have—without admitting it in court—taken the responsibility of the custodians of public debate,&…
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Driver Killed In Tesla Accident Ignored Automated Warnings To Pay Attention
"Bryant Walker Smith, a professor at the University of South Carolina School of Law, who devoted his career to studying semi-autonomous technology like Tes…
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Who’ll be responsible when self-driving car crashes?
"“In comparison to the automotive industry today, the automated driving industry will likely bear a bigger slice of a smaller pie of total crash costs,” wr…
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The Supreme Court Just Protected Your Right to Facebook
""The Supreme Court appropriately understood the importance of the internet to the way politics and free expression occur right now," says Neil R…
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The Cross-Border Data Fix: It’s Not So Simple
The House Judiciary Committee held a hearing yesterday on cross-border data requests, featuring testimony from the Department of Justice, the U.K. government, G…
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BREIN v. Ziggo: The Pirate Bay Dies Again
The Pirate Bay (TPB), that perennial nemesis of copyright holders, is on the ropes again following the CJEU's decision this week in BREIN v. Ziggo. BREIN, t…
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House Judiciary Continues Email Privacy Law Overhaul Debate
"Richard Salgado, director of law enforcement and international security at Google, said in response to questions from Rep. Doug Collins (R-Ga.) that ECPA…
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Youth is no defence when it comes to shameful online posts
"According to Danielle Citron, a professor at the University of Maryland Carey School of Law, and a leader in the fight against online harassment and reven…