Craig Aaron and Malkia Cyril on Net Neutrality, Kyle Wiens on Copyright Overreaching
This week on CounterSpin: FCC chair Ajit Pai has announced his plans to gut net neutrality; the former Verizon lawyer and Jeff Sessions staffer declared his int…
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Today’s ODNI and Section 702 News
Today, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) announced that it would stop some of the surveillance it conducts on the telecommunications ba…
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Miami sextortion case asks if a suspect can be forced to decrypt an iPhone
""It differs in that the victim often wears a fur bikini, but is not otherwise an out-of-the-ordinary dispute over this issue in my opinion," Jen…
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One year later: EU right to open internet still virtual
"The European Union legislation on open internet access does not specify if zero-rating is allowed. Instead, the EU lawmakers decided to leave it to natio…
Comments Pertaining to Internet Users' Expression and Information Rights
I write as the Director of Intermediary Liability at Stanford Law School’s Center for Internet and Society. My work there focuses closely on the “Right to Be Fo…
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The “Right to Be Forgotten” and National Laws Under the GDPR
The EU’s new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will come into effect in the spring of 2018, bringing with it a newly codified version of the “Right to B…
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EU telecom watchdog plan dead on arrival
"“A pan-European regulator would be the prime target of every telecom lobbyist on the continent,” said Thomas Lohninger, a digital rights activist. “Right…
Mozilla April Speaker Series: American Spies: Modern Surveillance and What We Can Do Speaker: Jennifer Granick
Intelligence agencies in the U.S. (aka the American Spies) are exceedingly aggressive, pushing and sometimes bursting through the technological, legal and polit…
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Should officers be allowed to view body cam videos? Or does it give them unfair advantage?
"Harlan Yu of Upturn Research has been studying body cameras and says they are not living up to the public’s expectations. “What Seattle and other police…
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The Trump administration’s war on net neutrality has officially begun
"Malkia Cyril, executive director of the Center for Media Justice, said net neutrality protections have expanded freedom of speech by allowing anyone’s onl…
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How to Disappear? Is it possible to move through a smart city undetected?
Even in the middle of major city, it’s possible to go off the grid. Last year, the Atlantic profiled a family in Washington, D.C., that harvests their entire ho…
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Crime, live on video: The beast Facebook can’t control
"Daphne Keller, Director of Intermediary Liability at Stanford’s Center for Internet and Society, told Quartz Facebook’s turnaround time was actually quite…