Two new initiatives will hold tech companies accountable on press freedom
The launches of OnlineCensorship.org today and Ranking Digital Rights on November 3 will ensure technology companies serve--rather than squelch--the free flow o…
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Elon Law Professor David Levine leads law scholars' effort to improve federal cyberespionage response
"The Nov. 17 scholars' letter opposing DTSA was addressed to Senators Charles Grassley and Patrick Leahy, and U.S. Representatives Robert Goodlatte and…
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Experts weigh benefits, problems of open data
"Speaking on a panel on the topic hosted by the Microsoft Innovation & Policy Center in Washington, D.C., Ryan Calo, assistant professor of the Univers…
United States Intervention at the Meeting of the ICC’s Assembly of States Parties
The International Criminal Court’s Assembly of States Parties (ASP) is meeting this week in The Hague — its 14th session. On the agenda (and here) are a number…
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New Professors' Letter Opposing The Defend Trade Secrets Act of 2015
As CIS readers may recall, I've been very concerned about the problems associated with the proposed Defend Trade Secrets Act (DTSA). Ostensibly designed to…
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Blaming cryptography (and Snowden) again.
Less than 2 days after the Daesh attacks in Paris, technology was, predictably, named as an accomplice -- if not an enabler -- of terrorism, crime, and other ne…
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AP Exclusive: Big Texas welcome for Google self-driving cars
"State officials would not comment on their take, but one legal scholar said Google's read of state law was not farfetched. "A reasonable interpre…
This is the group that’s surprisingly prone to violent extremism
In the last 24 hours many prominent politicians and pundits have said that they don’t want Syrian refugees to enter the United States. For example, Gov. Chris C…
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Will the Paris Attacks Lead Law Enforcement to Crack Down on Encryption Apps?
""It's a great PR moment (for the government) and it's going to affect people's civil liberties," says Jennifer Granick, an attorney…
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FTC: Misleading Privacy Policies Could Trigger An Enforcement Action
"“There is a common misconception that websites that have privacy policies are subject to rigorous federal protections when, generally, that is the opposit…
A History of Aesthetics from Homer to Digital Mash-ups: Cumulative Creativity and the Demise of Copyright Exclusivity
Under a regime of limited economic incentive for creativity and confined commodification of information, humanity produced the greatest portion of human knowled…
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Who gets the ticket when a self-driving car is pulled over?
"According to Bryant Walker Smith, an assistant professor in the School of Law at the University of South Carolina and an expert on the law of self-driving…