From Horizontal to Vertical: An Intermediary Liability Earthquake in Europe
As part of its Digital Single Market Strategy, the European Commission would like to introduce vertical regulations, replacing — or better conflicting with — th…
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The Introduction of a Neighbouring Right for Press Publisher at EU Level: The Unneeded (and Unwanted) Reform
(with Christophe Geiger and Oleksandr Bulayenko) This article discusses the proposed introduction in EU law of neighbouring rights for press publishers for the…
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Not fast, not furious: Why government regulations can't keep up with transport innovation
""Are politicians reacting quickly enough? No, but they never do." Bryant Walker-Smith, Associate Professor of Law, University of South Carolina,…
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Paramilitary security tracked and targeted #noDAPL activists, docs show
"But the information provided by TigerSwan could have helped police forces overcome that prohibition. Elizabeth Joh, a private security legal scholar at UC…
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In Trump’s America, Black Lives Matter activists grow wary of their smartphones
"As a longtime political activist, Malkia Cyril knows how smartphones helped fuel Black Lives Matter protests with outraged tweets and viral videos. But no…
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Concert security in the wake of Manchester Arena bombing: “We can’t keep you 100% safe”
""In terms of large, structural changes, in terms of how people go in and out of these facilities, I don't imagine there are going to be huge chan…
We now know who cheats on their taxes. (Hint: it’s not the poor or middle class.)
Social scientists find it hard to study many important questions because they don’t have good data: Tax evasion is one of those questions. For obvious reasons,…
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Donald Trump's mobile phone use worries former Obama tech officer
"Andrew McLaughlin, former deputy chief technology officer for the Obama administration, said the vulnerabilities were a concern. "What we ended up w…
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Is it ethical for these researchers to pay hackers for access to malware before it’s unleashed?
"That is, what if everyone, not just these researchers, gave $22,500 to the Shadow Brokers? Patrick Lin, a philosophy professor at California Polytechnic S…
New Atrocities Prevention & Response Legislation Introduced
I posted earlier about a new bipartisan bill to advance accountability in Syria: the Syrian War Crimes Accountability Act of 2017 (current status is here). Two…
Trump’s No Hypocrite
U.S. President Donald Trump can be accused of having many faults, but hypocrisy is not one of them. To be sure, Trump is wildly inconsistent. His critics have f…
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States 'awaken' to critical infrastructure cyberthreats
""The election did do a lot to awaken the state and local governments that had perhaps not thought so much about cybersecurity," said Brian Nussb…