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IBM Gives Up Out-Of-Office Email Patent EFF Called 'Stupid'
"Speaking by phone to Law360, Nazer said Thursday he believed the disclaimer was directly linked to his post given the timing, and the fact that IBM filed…
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IBM gets a patent on “out-of-office” e-mail messages—in 2017
"The "invention" represented in the '842 patent is starkly at odds with the real history of technology, accessible in this case via a basic G…
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Waymo's Uber Lawsuit May Be Start Of A Google Patent War
"“I’ve been warning that we could eventually see automated driving patent wars that rival the smartphone patent wars from several years ago,” Bryant Walker…
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Twitter to police abuse in major shift
""Twitter has been proceeding carefully and thoughtfully in thinking through and rolling out tools designed to help harassment victims," said Uni…
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Our Bots, Ourselves
"According to university law professors Woodrow Hartzog and Danielle Citron, “It is the first such complaint by the FTC that involved bots designed to acti…
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Checks and balances: an uncertain future for the intelligence sector
"According to Richard Forno, a professor at UMBC and the director of UMBC’s graduate cybersecurity program, “Politics should never interfere with intellige…
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Is Posting on Facebook a Fundamental Right?
"“That’s of importance to anyone who uses the internet and digital products and services,” says Neil Richards, a Washington University law professor who sp…
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The Startup That’s in Charge of the Biggest Private Satellite Fleet
"The higher resolution will likely raise privacy and security concerns, however, just as Google’s Street View did in its early days. Making public precise…
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ICANN Is Moving Toward Copyright Enforcement, Academic Says
"The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is on an “ambivalent drift” into online content regulation through its contractual facilit…
Opinion: The tech behind Bitcoin could reinvent cybersecurity
Given the recent cyberattacks on critical infrastructure around the world such as the Christmas 2016 power outage in Ukraine, which left more than 200,000 peopl…
How Many Times Has the Government Spied on You Today?
The Snowden revelations, while dramatic, have done little to amp up public concern about personal surveillance. After all, thanks to technology, electronic spy…
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If You're Not Driving, Then You Shouldn't be Liable for Accidents in Self-Driving Cars
"In his new law review article, "Automated Driving and Product Liability," University of South Carolina law professor Bryant Walker Smith foresee…