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Why You Should Care About the Silk Road Trial
"Online black markets are likely to continue to be created and shut down. Yet this trial has also reminded us of the limits of technology. When the Interne…
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Sticks and stones may break your bones, but Charlie Hebdo cartoons will never hurt you.
Don't insult the Pope's mother, or he'll punch you in the face. In response to questioning about the Charlie Hebdo killings, the Pope stated: "…
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Republicans Wage Last-Minute Campaign To Undermine Net Neutrality Rules
"Though the proposal offers many concessions to net neutrality advocates, critics maintain that it still fails to uphold important net neutrality principle…
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Now that liberals are winning on net neutrality, Republicans want a compromise
"The Republican bill, sponsored by Sen. John Thune (R-SD) and Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI), is "network neutrality in name only," according to the lega…
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Snowden on Cyberwar: America Is Its Own Worst Enemy
"Scott Shackelford, an assistant professor of business, law and ethics at Indiana University, says that Snowden “has a point,” and that Stuxnet, because of…
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UK Intelligence Spying on Journalists Neglects Privacy, Press Freedom
"The UK government is not giving enough consideration to privacy and freedom of the press, and the recently revealed surveillance of journalists is yet mor…
Classifying media and encryption as a threat is danger to press freedom
The U.K. prides itself on its commitment to free expression, but the latest revelations of surveillance of journalists and calls by Britain's Prime Minister…
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Stolen Bases: A Teenager Argues That a Big-League Ballclub Stole His Work
"There is some cold comfort for the little guy whose stuff is copied or stolen by the big guy: "You do get free publicity," says UC Hastings prof…
New Republican Bill Is Network Neutrality in Name Only
After a year of debates and a month before the Federal Communication Commission’s (FCC’s) rulemaking on network neutrality, the GOP has finally joined the party…
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How Your Facebook Likes Could Cost You a Job
"And Danielle Citron, a law professor who has studied privacy, worries that data on people’s personalities could be stored and used in contexts they never…
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The Murky Legal World of the DNA You Leave Behind at Restaurants
"Or think of it this way, says University of California Davis School of Law professor Elizabeth Joh, who’s proposed laws against DNA theft: Do you have any…
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Zombie cookies: How Verizon Wireless’s ‘supercookies’ make it even harder to avoid being tracked online
"With Turn, Mayer said he has found the smoking gun showing the risks to consumers posed by the Verizon Wireless supercookie are more than theoretical. &q…