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How Algorithms Can Bring Down Minorities' Credit Scores
"Preventing algorithmic discrimination is a challenge. It’s not easy to hold companies to the laws that would protect consumers from unfair credit practice…
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Symposium Print Preview: Reflection on iGovernance and Professor Scott Shackelford’s Presentation
"“Our decision to conclude the litigation was based solely on the fact that, with the recent assistance of a third party, we are now able to unlock that iP…
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My Dissent from Professor Kerr's Opinion on the Consequences of the Microsoft Ireland Case
In his November 29, 2016, Volokh Conspiracy post, Professor Orin Kerr raised some important points about the unintended or unanticipated consequences of the so-…
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Gap Between Wiretaps Reported By US Courts And Recipient Service Providers Continues To Grow
"Albert Gidari of Just Security/Center for Internet and Society has been looking into the US Courts' wiretap reports for 2014 and 2015. The problem wit…
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Are Blockchain Patents a Bad Idea?
"Daniel Nazer, a lawyer with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, told Fortune that applications to patent the blockchain — which is a form of software — fa…
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EFF’s Stupid Patent of the Month: Streaming cloud-based content
"US Patent No. 8,856,221 is called the "System and method for storing broadcast content in a cloud-based computing environment." In short, the in…
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Dear Silicon Valley: Great satire can be fake news!
Watch out! Fake news is coming to get you! Lock your doors and iPhones, guard your dogs and children, and hold on to your comb overs! But is fake news so bad, a…
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Vulcan™
"That’s something that just isn’t true, said Woodrow Hartzog, an associate professor at Samford University’s Cumberland School of Law and a former trademar…
Autonomous Weapons: an Interview With the Experts
FLI’s Ariel Conn recently spoke with Heather Roff and Peter Asaro about autonomous weapons. Roff, a research scientist at The Global Security Initiative at Ariz…
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Wiretap Numbers Still Don't Add Up
Earlier this year, I wrote that the wiretap numbers reported by the Administrative Office (AO) of the US Courts in its 2014 Wiretap Report and those disclosed i…
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Some pervert cyberflashed me on the subway—And I have my iPhone to thank
"Flashing someone is illegal, but the cyber equivalent isn’t, said Danielle Citron, a professor of law at the University of Maryland, who has written a boo…
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Alleged Kidnapping Raises Questions About Online Harassment
""We often see people who torment domestic partners will torment them and terrorize them with any tool they have, and that is on and offline," Un…