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A Campus Murder Tests Facebook Clicks as Evidence of Hate
""These are not questions the law has had to answer before," says Neil Richards, a professor of First Amendment and privacy law at Washington Uni…
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Supreme Court Ends Texas’ Grip On Patent Cases
Today the Supreme Court issued a decision that will have a massive impact on patent troll litigation. In TC Heartland v. Kraft Foods, the court ruled that paten…
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Nvidia And Waymo Grab Early Lead In First Lap Of Self-Driving Car Race
"“Partnerships will be the key to successfully competing on automated driving – and different companies, from automakers to suppliers to data providers to…
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Roaming Charges
"That leeway has drawn criticism from academics and civil-liberties advocates. Elizabeth Joh, a University of California, Davis, law professor, said the do…
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Microsoft’s Old Software Is Dangerous. Is There a Duty to Fix It?
"Cyber law professor Jennifer Granick of Stanford University suggests auto-industry style liability is not appropriate for software. "While it is tru…
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Looking Forward to Our Driverless Future
"The challenges are legal as well as technological. Bryant Walker Smith, a member of the legal faculty at the University of South Carolina, says that “hist…
American Spies
If you attended a recent march to protest, wrote a check to the ACLU, or recently visited a politically leaning website, consider yourself an activist, says Sta…
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Ransomware attack is why we can't have security backdoors, say privacy advocates
"What happened this week won’t be lost on judges in the future should the government again try to get tech companies to build backdoor access into programs…
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Jailed for a Facebook post: how US police target critics with arrest and prosecution
"“For a country that purports to be guided by democracy and guided by civil rights, this is a very dangerous and very slippery slope,” said Malkia Cyril, t…
Trump’s values are abhorrent to the Federalist Society of conservative lawyers. That doesn’t stop them from helping him.
New Yorker writer Jeffrey Toobin describes the Federalist Society as an enormously influential network of conservative lawyers. Its executive vice president, Le…
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How the WannaCry Attack Will Impact Cyber Security
"Meanwhile, threats of similar – or perhaps worse – attacks have continued to surface. “This was not the big one. This was a precursor of a far worse attac…
Jeff Sessions’s war on drugs will be less consequential than many believe. Here’s why.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions wants to reverse the policies of the Obama administration, by prosecuting more cases involving guns and drugs, and seeking more m…