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Smile! A Drone Is About to Take Your Picture
"But Ryan Calo, an assistant professor at the University of Washington School of Law, who specializes in robotics and drones, said the accidents that were…
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Canadian Court Forces Google to Delist Websites Worldwide
A few days ago, the Supreme Court of British Columbia issued an order requiring Google to remove websites from its worldwide index in Equustek Solutions Inc. v.…
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Will Supreme Court patent ruling hobble the trolls?
"“We’re excited. We think it’s a good decision,” said Daniel Nazer, a staff attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation in San Francisco, who filed a br…
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GM Wants You to Creepily Text Drivers by Scanning Their Plates
"With DiDi Plate, the threat is that the public would have access to information reserved for government officials, says professor Ryan Calo, a privacy and…
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Supreme Court Rules Against Software Patents
""We think that it will cut down on a lot of the worst patents that are out there, the most ridiculous and overbroad software patents… A lot of patent…
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Social media safety when posting pictures
"Cumberland School of Law Professor Woodrow Hartzog sees cases such as these and others dealing with online privacy and communication. Via email, Hartzog…
Are General Threats of Violence Against Groups Punishable?
Cross-posted from Forbes. Under the name “Foss Dark,” University of Washington student Keshav Bhide wrote online: Everything Elliot did is perfectly justified…
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For U.S. high court, a year of discontent with patent rulings
""Every decision has basically said the Federal Circuit was being too pro-patent," said Daniel Nazer, an attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foun…
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European Libraries Don't Need Permission to Digitize Books in Their Collection, Says Advocate General of the ECJ
Recently, an Advocate General with the European Court of Justice (ECJ) handed down an opinion in Technische Universität Darmstadt v Eugen Ulmer KG stating that…
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3 ways Glenn Greenwald changed how I look at privacy
"Set aside any discussion about when and whether the data collection is justified. When one side has a lot of it, and the other none, there’s a problem. T…
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Patent Office: Redskins 'disparaging'
""The law is really unclear on this," said Sonia Katyal, the Joseph M. McLaughlin Professor of Law at Fordham who specializes in intellectual pro…
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Free speech is a bad excuse for online creeps to threaten rape and murder
"There's no way to hear if there's laughter in his voice, for example. But we know he's angry, he's been fired from his job, he's been…