Scalia’s privacy impact will be felt for years to come
One would think privacy was a concept that Justice Antonin Scalia disliked. After all, how could a textualist, who firmly believed in lawyers’ obligation to fol…
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8 Ways To Secure Data During US-EU Privacy Fight
""We haven't seen the solution. We only heard very high-level principles by the European Commission and some data that was added by the Department…
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India Defends Net Neutrality against Facebook’s Free Basics
"What’s interesting in all this is that Barbara van Schewick, director of Stanford Law School’s Center for Internet and Society, whose paper was recently s…
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USC educator: Potential benefits of self-driving cars “tremendous”
"Bryant Walker Smith is an assistant professor of law at the University of South Carolina. The university’s website says he is an internationally recognize…
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MLAT Reform and the 80% Solution - What's Good for Users?
Last week, The Washington Post reported that the US and the UK were in negotiations to permit UK law enforcement agencies to request stored communications like…
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School threats cost educational time, taxpayer money
"Brian Nussbaum, a former intelligence analyst who now is an assistant professor of public administration at University at Albany in New York, said that be…
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Feds Say They’ll Count Computers As Human Drivers
"“This letter will one day be in a museum of technology history—or at least legal history,” says Bryant Walker Smith, an assistant professor at the Univers…
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The government has officially declared that autonomous cars are their own drivers
"Bryant Walker Smith, chair of the Emerging Technology Law Committee of the Transportation Research Board of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineerin…
The NSA is massively reorganizing itself. That’s going to hurt its credibility
The National Security Agency has been having a tough time the last couple of years, as it takes the blame for widespread surveillance. It has just announced a m…
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Smart Cities – The Cyber Security and Privacy Implications of Ubiquitous Urban Computing
The rapid growth of embedded computing and the “Internet of Things” (IoT) have been felt in many industries and areas, but few organizations and jurisdictions h…
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A New Case (of Chilling Effects?) Against DMCA Counter-Notice Senders
E. TV Networks has filed copyright infringement claims in federal district court against Google and sixteen YouTube users. The targeted users sent DMCA counter-…
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A New Case (of Chilling Effects?) Against DMCA Counter-Notice Senders
E. TV Networks has filed copyright infringement claims in federal district court against Google and sixteen YouTube users. The targeted users sent DMCA counter-…