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Facebook Furor Is Overblown, Says CalPoly Ethicist
"It’s not clear that Facebook Inc.’s attempts to manipulate user emotion are an ethical lapse, says Patrick Lin, an associate professor in the philosophy d…
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Is America Incapable of Regulating Robots?
"Law professor Ryan Calo believes that robots are soon going to constitute a more abrupt departure from the technologies that preceded them than did the In…
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New NSA 'Transparency Report' Raises More Questions Than It Answers
""How do you get almost 90,000 targets with one order?" wondered Jennifer Granick, director of civil liberties at the Stanford Center for Interne…
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Largest US law firm unamused with parody blog, threatens trademark suit
""The wise thing for them to do is simply accept somebody said something mean about them on the Internet and move on," EFF staff attorney Daniel…
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Are Law Schools Heading into a Bull Market?
"Over at Slate, business reporter Jordan Weissmann assesses the bigger picture and offers advice for law school fence-sitters: Apply to law school now. Th…
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Why the Supreme Court May Finally Protect Your Privacy in the Cloud
"The ripples from Riley may extend to the NSA’s surveillance practices, too, says Jennifer Granick, director of Civil Liberties at Stanford Law School’s Ce…
Network Neutrality and Quality of Service: What a Non-Discrimination Rule Should Look Like
Forthcoming, Stanford Law Review, Volume 67, Issue 1 (2015) Public Law and Legal Theory Working Paper Series Research Paper No. 2459568 John M. Olin Program i…
SCOTUS & Cell Phone Searches: Digital is Different
Cross-posted from Just Security. Today, the Supreme Court unanimously invalidated warrantless searches of cell phones incident to arrest in Riley v. California…
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Delivery Drones Grounded by F.A.A.
"Ryan Calo, an assistant professor at the University of Washington School of Law who specializes in robotics and drones, told me that the worry about drone…
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Courts may hear challenges to secret cell tracking devices after new ruling
"Brian Pascal, a research fellow at the University of California, Hastings, told Ars that he didn’t think that this new ruling would impact metadata gather…
What Aereo's Supreme Court Ruling Means for New Tech
"The Supreme Court sides with the big television networks and rules that Barry Diller's start-up Aereo violates existing copyright law. Christopher Spr…
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US music copyright: 'It’s basically just a bunch of people fighting over money'
"“Everyone’s opinion is predictable,” said Christopher Sprigman, who teaches copyright law at NYU. “Everyone’s opinion is really just about getting more mo…