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The Marvel Chairman, a Hate-Mail Feud and Claims of Stolen DNA
"Change has come slowly despite warnings in the Boston University Law Review about how employers, a person in a romantic relationship or fans of celebritie…
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The Promise And Challenge Of Driverless Cars
The ABA Annual Conference may not have been a lot of fun for, say, an institution on the cusp of a DOE smackdown, but as a member of the press — marked with a b…
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Our Fingerprints Are Portals Into Our Digital Lives — But the Laws Haven't Caught Up
"First of all, there's the Fourth Amendment, which protects against unlawful search and seizure. The problem is, according to Yana Welinder, a nonresid…
Tech Tuesday: Hacking During the Election, Portrayal of Women in Video Games and Virtual Reality
With recent hacking issues, some wonder how vulnerable computer systems will be during the U.S. election and what security measures are in place to deal with an…
Chemical Weapons Use Returns to Syria
This post is the latest installment of our “Monday Reflections” feature, in which a different Just Security editor examines the big stories from the previous we…
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Editorial: Hacking into elections
""Interfering with the electoral and political process of countries is a classic tool of intelligence and foreign policy,” noted Richard Forno of the…
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Strasbourg Court To Hear A Case About Liability For Hyperlinking
Internet case-law of the ECtHR will soon be enriched. Magyar Jeti Zrt v Hungary is a new important pending case. It concerns liability for hyperlinks in the dom…
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Government data requests have little legal backing say experts
"The Stanford Center for Internet and Society's Jennifer Granick, director of civil liberties, and Riana Pfefferkorn, cryptography fellow, said at Blac…
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Stanford-Professorin Van Schewick: ‘Netzbetreiber gegen den Rest der Welt’
"Sind wir im Internet alle gleich oder gibt es Privilegierte? Regiert auch hier das Geld die Welt? Die gebürtige Bonnerin und Stanford-Professorin Barbara…
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Who gets the blame when driverless cars crash? Everybody.
"Law professor Bryant Walker Smith of the University of South Carolina discussed some of the legal aspects of getting driverless cars on the road. There ar…
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Ferguson Improves Police Body Camera Policy, But Gaps Remain, Critics Say
"Harlan Yu, a principal at Upturn, said Ferguson’s updated policy is an improvement over the one it assessed for its study, which came from a 2014 document…
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Unlock the Box Meets Lochner
I’m told that August is a slow month in D.C., but there is nevertheless policy drama in the air for the telecommunications and copyright nerds among us. I blogg…