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Global Magnitsky Act Re-Introduced
Senators Bill Cardin (D-Md) and John McCain (R-Ariz.) have re-introduced the Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act (S. 284) aimed at expanding the U.…
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House Takes First Steps on Federal Data Breach Law
"To the contrary, Woodrow Hartzog of Stanford’s Cumberland School of Law stepped out of the line established by the expert testimony preceding his. He caut…
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Happy Data Privacy Day. Legally speaking, you’re mostly on your own.
"Hearing witness Woodrow Hartzog, an associate professor at the Cumberland School of Law, all but dismissed the claim that businesses can't comply with…
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Seven Reasons the New GOP Bill Will Not Give Us Net Neutrality
This blog post was co-authored by Barbara van Schewick and Morgan Weiland. Valarie Kaur contributed to this post. After a year of debates on network neutrality…
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Intermediary Liability Updates from Turkey: Forcing Online Intermediaries to Create a Website Blocking-Friendly Infrastructure
Turkish governmental control of web traffic is on the rise. Recently, the Information Technology and Communications Authority (the "ITC Authority") up…
China doubles down on counterproductive censorship
In a move unlikely to surprise those who access the Internet from mainland China, the country's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology recently blo…
Russia is hinting at a new Cold War over SWIFT. So what’s SWIFT?
In the last few days, the Russians have been making bellicose threats about what might happen if they are excluded from SWIFT. On Friday, the CEO of Russia’s se…
Prof. Lisa Lynch - Hearsay Culture Show #228 - KZSU-FM
A talk show on KZSU-FM, Stanford, 90.1 FM, hosted by CIS Affiliate Scholar David S. Levine. The show includes guests and focuses on the intersection of technolo…
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Seminar on the Law of the Newly Possible
One of my courses this semester is Technology Law: Law of the Newly Possible. This seminar, at the University of South Carolina School of Law, examines how law…
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Spanish Copyright Reform Enters into Force: Special Focus on Online Intermediaries
At the beginning of January, most of the controversial reform of the Spanish Copyright Act entered into force. As it has been widely publicised, the reform has…
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Italian Court Decides an Important Case on Liability of Video-sharing Platforms
A few days ago, an important Italian judicial precedent on hosting providers’ liability has been overturned by the Milan Court of Appeal. The appellate court re…
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Old arguments may hinder U.S. data breach notification efforts
"If a national law preempts strong state laws, "hard won consumer protections will be lost," added Woodrow Hartzog, a law professor focused on da…