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In Standoff with FTC, Wyndham Shoots Itself in the Foot
The Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) resounding victory over Wyndham Worldwide Corporation in a U.S. District Court paves the way for increasing privacy and dat…
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Big Privacy Win in the EU
Today, the European Court of Justice struck down the European Union’s 2006 Data Retention Directive. That policy required member states to force communications…
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March 2014 in Retrospect: Intermediary Liability News and More from the Internet and Jurisdiction Project
March 2014 Retrospect is available here: http://www.internetjurisdiction.net/observatory/retrospect/2014-march Retrospect is the monthly newsletter of the Int…
Browsing with Tor: Online Anonymity to Outsmart the NSA - Tom Lowenthal
CIS Tech Workshop with Tom Lowenthal - Browsing with Tor: Online Anonymity to Outsmart the NSA https://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/events/cis-tech-workshop-tom-lowen…
Interconnection Disputes Are Network Neutrality Issues (of Netflix, Comcast, and the FCC)
Cross-posted from CircleID. A lot of people have been talking about the "interconnection" deal between Comcast and Netflix and whether that deal is r…
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Connecting the Dots Between Cookies and Identities
"Assuming an adversary, whether a criminal or intelligence agency, has a presence on the network, the working premise here is that the first- and third-par…
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Poll: Tech Companies Encroach Too Much on Personal Data
"Public sensitivity about privacy was heightened by revelations of U.S. surveillance activities by the National Security Agency, as leaked by former spy co…
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As human laws grapple with robots, there are no easy answers
"At the conference, cyberlaw professor Ryan Calo discussed his forthcoming paper "Robotics and the New Cyberlaw." Internet law defined the vangua…
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AZ immigration attorney debunks parody border checkpoint video
"Immigration attorney Ray Ybarra Maldonado said law enforcement needs probable cause to detain or search you. Still, he said it's best to comply - but…
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Drone Crashes Could Cause Headaches and Lawsuits
"In the United States, someone injured by a small drone would have a strong case against the person remotely flying it, even if the injured party was simpl…
The FTC and Privacy and Security Duties for the Cloud
Third-party data service providers, especially providers of cloud computing services, present unique and difficult privacy and data security challenges. While m…
Robo cops can not turn a blind eye
Listen to the full radio show (in German) at Deutschlandradio. (English translation): "On the other hand: even algorithms can make mistakes. You will eve…