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U.S. Government Takes Unprecedented Action Against Revenge Porn
"Danielle Citron, a professor at the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law and author of the book Hate Crimes in Cyberspace, took a sligh…
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The One Loophole to Rule Them All
For more than a year, alongside immigration and an oil pipeline, net neutrality has been one of the biggest policy debates in the nation, prompting thousands of…
A New Regulatory Agency for Autonomous Technology Is Needed First
We are not ready for driverless cars because our public officials lack the expertise to evaluate the safety of this new class of automobiles. When Congress ask…
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36 Leading Scholars to Federal Officials: Only the FCC Can Protect the Open Internet
Today, 36 leading scholars published a letter stating that the only way to protect network neutrality is for the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to adop…
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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…