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…
Where all those digital cookies came from
Listen to the full interview at Marketplace Tech. "It was about consumer convenience," says Ryan Calo, a professor of internet and privacy law at the…
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Visions of the Sharing Economy Present and Future from NYU Conference
"Leading a later panel, Andrew McLaughlin, the CEO of Digg, sought to "de-cartoonize" the conflicts between peer-to-peer networks and regulators,…
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April 2014 in Retrospect: Intermediary Liability News and More from the Internet and Jurisdiction Project
April 2014 Retrospect is available here: http://www.internetjurisdiction.net/observatory/retrospect/2014-april Retrospect is the monthly newsletter of the Int…
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Update on Privacy From Canada
In unveiling its Speech From the Throne (SFT) last October, the Government spelled out its priorities and governing agenda leading up to the next federal electi…
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Interviews: Jennifer Granick Answers Your Questions
Jennifer Granick, CIS Director of Civil Liberties, was recently interviwed by Slashdot users about surveillance, data protection, copyright, and number of other…
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Is the vulnerability disclosure 'debate' resurfacing?
A recent Guardian article reminds us that computer crime laws may be applied toward cybersecurity researchers disclosing vulnerabilities in modern technology pr…
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Should We Centralize the Right to be Forgotten Clearing House?
Being in Silicon Valley during the time when the honourable Court of Justice of the European Union "cracks" its epic right to be forgotten ruling, is…
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Are some companies 'yes men' when foreign governments ask for user data?
Once you start looking at which countries are requesting data from US companies, the next obvious (and critical) question is: how do companies respond to those…