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How Injunctions Against Intermediaries Change Intermediary Liability in Europe In Europe, even law abiding Internet intermediaries can be sued in private lawsu…
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CIS Files FOIA Request to DOJ for Legal Opinions on Crypto-Defeating Laws
Yesterday, the Center for Internet and Society filed a new Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to uncover the U.S. government’s legal strategies for defea…
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Policing Online Comments in Europe: New Human Rights Case Law in the Real World
This is the second of four posts on real-world consequences of the European Court of Human Rights’ (ECHR) rulings in Delfi v. Estonia and MTE v. Hungary. Both c…
A Financial Times columnist says that taxes have nothing to do with fairness. Here’s why he’s wrong.
One of the people to suffer fallout from the Panama Papers leak is David Cameron, Britain’s prime minister. After a few days of equivocation, he was forced to a…
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Can Silly Patents Help Fight Frivolous Lawsuits?
"Daniel Nazer, the Mark Cuban Chair to Eliminate Stupid Patents at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a high-tech civil liberties group, is amused by Rebe…
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New Intermediary Liability Cases from the European Court of Human Rights: What Will They Mean in the Real World?
Last summer, the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) delivered a serious setback to free expression on the Internet. The Court held, in D…
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Apple v. FBI: Feds will continue fight over iPhone in New York case
"Legal experts say the government may be forced in the New York case to provide further details about its independent efforts to unlock iPhones, and sugges…
How Governments Can Clear the Road for Self-Driving Cars
So you've decided that your state should have self-driving cars. How, then, do you catch the attention of the Googles, Volvos and Navyas of the world that a…
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Where Are The Panama Papers? Governments May Pester Amazon, But Good Luck Getting In
"“It isn’t a clear-cut answer in terms of who has access to or can compel production of the Panama Papers,” said Albert Gidari, director of privacy at the…
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India's driverless Metro: Unlike cars, robo-trains are hurtling forward
"“Tracks – especially dedicated tracks – are an important simplifier that automated road vehicles don't enjoy,” says Bryant Walker Smith, an assistant…
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March 2016 in Retrospect: Intermediary Liability News and More from the Internet and Jurisdiction Project
March 2016 in Retrospect is available here: http://www.internetjurisdiction.net/observatory/retrospect/2016-march/ Retrospect is a flagship publication of the…
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David Levine delivers talk on 'confidentiality creep' at Yale
" Associate Professor David Levine gave a talk in early April to attendees at Yale Law School's Information Society Project's 2016 spring conferenc…