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The Mutual Legal Assistance Problem explained
Following Edward Snowden revelations, it’s an understatement to say that governments were unhappy with their citizens' data being managed solely under US la…
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Your Kid's School Is Missing the Tech Revolution, and It's All Your Fault
"Jonathan Mayer, a computer scientist and lawyer at Stanford who has studied the security practices of education technology startups, says he’s been horrif…
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Getting net neutrality right: Four improvements to take us across the finish line
This Thursday, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is poised to reclassify ISPs like Verizon and Comcast that connect us to the Internet as common carri…
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Lawsuits’ Lurid Details Draw an Online Crowd
"In interviews, several plaintiffs’ lawyers said the current online environment was already deterring potential clients from filing suit. Now a Google sear…
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Legal patchwork rules Internet of Things and its users
"Besides favoring limits on how much data the gadgets sweep up and retain, they want users of the devices to control what's collected about them, who e…
Dark Leviathan
The Hidden Wiki holds the keys to a secret internet. To reach it, you need a special browser that can access ‘Tor Hidden Services’ – websites that have chosen t…
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Hunter Moore Is Probably Going to Prison. How Scared Should Revenge Porn Kingpins Be?
"Bollaert and Meyering got busted for extortion after charging victims hundreds of dollars to remove their photos from their sites. So Moore may be going a…
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Activists in the war against revenge porn are finally seeing results
"Victims can sue the person who leaked the images and 16 states now have criminal cyberstalking or harassment laws that criminalize such situations, she sa…
Network Neutrality and Zero-rating
This report was filed with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) along with an ex parte letter on February 19, 2015 * Publication Type:White Paper / R…
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FCC's 'General Conduct' Standard Draws Concern
"Van Schewick is all for strong new rules, but prefers bright line rules against specific practices. She also suggests that the FCC could get at conduct th…
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The Age of the Drone
"In THE AGE OF THE DRONE, lawyer and robotics expert Ryan Calo defines the drone dilemma as he sees it: “I have three concerns regarding the domestic use o…
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Liability Laws in the Age of Self-driving Cars
"Bryant Walker Smith, professor of law and engineering at the Univ. of South Carolina in Columbia, said the burden of liability is likely to shift more to…