Yik Yak & Social Media Trends
Visit WYPR.org to listen to the podcast. Social media is full of hurtful, racist and sometimes threatening speech. We take a look at the hyper-localized and an…
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Yahoo! End-to-End email preview promises greater protection for journalists
Good news for journalists wanting added protection from surveillance. Yahoo! hasannounced a technical preview of its email security tool End-to-End, which it ha…
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The Provision of Means: Dual Use Goods & Corporate Liability
This is Part III of a series on the Doe v. Cisco case pending in the Northern District of California and involving claims that Cisco should be liable for aiding…
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Belgian Court Says That ISPs Must Not Pay a Copyright Levy to Collective Societies
On March 13, 2015, the Distric Court of Brussels decided that Internet Service Providers (ISPs) should not pay a copyright levy for communicating to the public…
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The Path of Robotics Law
I have posted a draft of my latest essay, The Path of Robotics Law, on SSRN. Here is the abstract:This essay, written as a response to Ryan Calo's valuable…
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Landmark Intermediary Liability Decision from the Indian Supreme Court
Recently, the Supreme Court of India issued a landmark decision regarding the constitutionality of several provisions included in the Indian Information Technol…
Privacy Vs. Security with Jennifer Granick
In the realm of big data, privacy is a significant, and often controversial, issue. In this clip, Jennifer Granick takes on the alleged trade-off between “priva…
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Welcome to the Manila Intermediary Liability Principles!
A few days ago, digital rights advocates and civil society groups gathered together in Manila and approved the Intermediary Liability Principles. The principles…
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How to defeat Internet bullies
Effective solutions for ending – or even lessening – the abuse and online harassment that happens on the Web have been elusive to say least. But the cause did r…
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#blurred_boundaries
When Shaheen Shariff asked a group of under-18-year-olds whether a teenage girl has the right to object to her boyfriend sharing a nude photo of her with his fr…
Why Bitcoin Matters (To Computer Scientists)
View the full video on YouTube. Talk by Arvind Narayanan at the University of Maryland. Based on a paper-in-progress by Arvind Narayanan and Joseph Bonneau A…
2015 Mitchell Lecture: Who Rules Big Data?
Who Rules Big Data? Law, Knowledge, and Power The Mitchell Lecture, “Who Rules Big Data? Law, Knowledge, and Power,” will explore that question, with special e…