The Case for Net Neutrality
For all the withering criticism leveled at the White House for its botched rollout of HealthCare.gov, that debacle is not the biggest technology-related failure…
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USA v. Microsoft: what the decision does and doesn't mean
Somehow we went from mild interest in December when Microsoft challenged a search warrant over user data stored in Ireland to some kind of frenzy today when Chi…
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UK Parliament's Committee Labelled the "Right to be Forgotten" as Misguided and Unworkable
The European Union Committee of the UK Parliament released a report on the implications of the European Court of Justice’s (ECJ) recent Google Spain decision: &…
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Australian Government's Leaked Proposal to Force ISPs to Monitor Copyright Infringement
A discussion paper from the Australian Government titled "Online Copyright Infringement" leaked a few days ago. The paper included proposals to amend…
David Zweig - Hearsay Culture Show #219 - 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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Britain has ambitious plan for driverless cars, but roadblocks remain
"“It’s an early statement by a national government that this is a policy priority," said Bryant Walker Smith, an associate law professor at the Univer…
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Singapore’s Amended Anti-Piracy Copyright Act Enables Streamlined Site-Blocking
Singapore Parliament just passed an anti-piracy amendment to its Copyright Act, which aims to block “flagrantly infringing online location” such as The Pirate B…
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British Columbia Court of Appeal Refuses to Stay Enforcement in Equustek Solutions v. Google
As reported here, on June 13, 2014, the Supreme Court of British Columbia ordered Google to block a website worldwide in Equustek Solutions Inc. v. Jack. Later,…
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Another Win for Wikimedia in Italy (and Europe)
As reported a few days ago, Italian courts have been very active in the last few weeks in reviewing liability of online intermediaries. Recently, another Italia…
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Reflections on the UK's DRIP Act
It’s not straightforward being a law enforcement officer in the UK in 2014. I often think of how different my working existence is to that of my great-grandfath…
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Jurisdiction over user data - what is the ideal solution to a very real world problem?
Over the past ten days, civil society has been having kittens over the UK Data Retention and Investigatory Powers Bill, partly because of its extraterritorial e…
Julia Lane and Prof. Victoria Stodden - Hearsay Culture Show #218 - 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…