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Why the FAA's Newly Approved Drone Flights Are 'Problematic'
""Everything about it is surprising to me, Calo told Live Science. "I'm surprised the FAA is allowing any commercial use in advance of releas…
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FCC/DoJ to use Comcast, AT&T deals to set rules
""The net neutrality condition has been important to the FCC," said Marvin Ammori, a fellow at the New America Foundation. "It has almost al…
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Microsoft Fights U.S. Government Over Rights to Data on Foreign Servers
""It's a bad interpretation of the statute," Christopher Sprigman, a law professor at New York University, told Mashable. "This is just…
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Library Ruling A Good Sign For Google In Next Book Case
"“The idea that you're going to get an injunction and a finding of infringement based on speculation of security harms without any actual facts to supp…
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Eleventh Circuit Says No to Warrantless Cell Tracking, Calls Other Metadata Programs Into Question
Today, the Eleventh Circuit rejected the exceedingly common law enforcement practice of warrantlessly tracking suspects’ physical location using cell phone towe…
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Internet & Jurisdiction Case Collections 2012 and 2013 in Retrospect
The Internet & Jurisdiction Project launched officially the case compilations 2012 and 2013 in Retrospect. The case collections ”2012 in Retrospect“ and “20…
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New Book: Road Vehicle Automation
Road Vehicle Automation, which was inspired by the Transportation Research Board's eponymous 2013 workshop at Stanford, collects a variety of public, privat…
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Brooklyn entrepreneur says he's receiving death threats for using the pi symbol to brand his clothing line
"“I was wondering if it was evil or stupid,” New York University Law Prof. Christopher Sprigman said. “I realized I didn’t have to decide — it’s both.” No…
John Oliver’s Hilarious Net Neutrality Piece Speaks the Truth
Cross-posted from Slate. Last Sunday, on John Oliver's new HBO show Last Week Tonight, the former Daily Show fixture introduced net neutrality to millions…
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How to Make Driverless Cars Behave
"“I’ve been telling them that, at this very early stage, what’s important isn’t so much nailing down the right answers to difficult ethical dilemmas, but t…
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Are business owners who don’t invest in social media negligent?
"In his paper entitled Digital Market Manipulation, Professor Ryan Calo suggests that a market mediated by technology creates a “sea change in the way comp…
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BART's Monster-Sized Trademark Claim: A Tale of Two Logos
"BART's logo is not in the public domain, and even local T-shirt artists who glean BART imagery do so at their own legal peril. But, in claiming it can…