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In response to The End of the Internet Dream?
Jennifer Stisa Granick’s keynote address is a comprehensive and illuminating account of the past, present, and troubling future of “internet freedom.” It also r…
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Is It Legal to Shoot Down a Drone Hovering Over Your Property?
"Ryan Calo, a professor at the University of Washington School of Law, writes, “[T]he lack of a coherent mental model of privacy harm helps account for the…
Opinion: Twitter's privacy blunder
By Evan Selinger, Columnist and Woodrow Hartzog, Contributor If you want marketers to listen even more intently to what you’re saying online, you’ll be happy t…
Drones fly faster than the law can keep up with
"“We don’t need to get to this crazy world in which robots are trying to take over in order for there to be really difficult, interesting complex legal que…
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Interfaith Leaders Find Common Ground Promoting Internet Freedom
"“If you want a world where #BlackLivesMatter … if you want dignity for #Sikhs and #Muslims and the #99Percent, then #NetNeutrality is your cause too.” So…
Europe is being torn by an angry argument. This time, it’s not the euro’s fault.
Over the last few weeks, the European Union has been torn apart by bitter disagreement over a new crisis: the huge numbers of refugees and migrants who are turn…
The dangers of trusting robots
In February, a South Korean woman was sleeping on the floor when her robot vacuum ate her hair, forcing her to call for emergency help. It may not be the dystop…
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Ten years after the sellout, Black Hat is solidly corporate and that’s fine
"Granick was at some of the first DEF CON meetings and is a geek and lawyer who is passionate about the possibilities of a connected society. But we're…
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Detained Migrants Were Allegedly Abused, Neglected, And Traumatized
"“When you consider the claims being made here, this is five clients, but they really represent the more than 3,000 folks that have been processed through…
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The State Of Opt-Outs: Not Pretty For Privacy
"As the ad industry girds for the mushrooming debate around privacy, consumer choice and ad blocking, it’s clear that existing opt-out mechanisms aren’t ex…
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After Jeep hack, automakers working to plug vehicles' vulnerabilities
""It's the same thing you see in any industry: You do more and someone finds a way around it," said Bryant Walker Smith, a law professor at t…
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How Can You Patent a Dating Website?
"So does the Spark Networks matchmaking patent hold up in a post-Alice world? It depends on how you look at it. From a theoretical legal perspective, “This…