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The Humor Code
"In the wake of the controversy, Oliar and Sprigman decided take a scholarly look at the matter. “It just seemed odd,” says Sprigman, a visiting professor…
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Hollywood’s Antipiracy Efforts Add New Voice
"Marvin Ammori, a lawyer who has represented Google in the copyright wars, recently called such voluntary agreements no less threatening to free expression…
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5 Things You Need to Know About Obama's NSA Proposal
""Our phone records are sensitive, but so are our financial records, Internet information, email data," said Michelle Richardson, the ACLU's…
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Will Target’s Lawsuit Finally Expose the Failings of Security Audits?
"“As data security becomes a progressively more important aspect of corporate governance, and as consumers become progressively more concerned with the sta…
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President's plan insufficient to rein in NSA, privacy advocates say
""USA Freedom is more comprehensive and it's essential that it pass to fix much of what is wrong with domestic surveillance," Jennifer Granic…
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After Twitter Ban, Turkey’s Netizens Find YouTube Blockage a Breeze
"“It’s an escalation of censorship efforts,” said Andrew McLaughlin, who was a policy director at Google from 2003 to 2009 and worked on Turkish issues.&qu…
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The Case for Making Revenge Porn a Federal Crime
"As Danielle Citron, a University of Maryland law professor who studies cyber-harassment, put it to me in an email this morning, "A federal criminal l…
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Obama Unveils Proposed Changes to NSA Phone Data Rules
"But Michelle Richardson, a legislative counsel with the American Civil Liberties Union, said the impact on the scope isn't clear, and that the adminis…
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Flynn, Kaminski and Levine Comment to the United States Trade Representative on academics and the trade advisory system
Yesterday, Sean Flynn (American Law), Margot Kaminski (Yale Law) and I submitted this comment to the US Trade Representative (USTR) making the argument that aca…
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Experts say NSA rules leave privacy vulnerable
""It's very clear there are enormous loopholes," said Jonathan Mayer, a cybersecurity fellow at Stanford University's Center for Internat…
Driven To Gridlock: Driverless Cars
There’s a lot of talk about autonomous control vehicles, or cars that drive themselves. Charles Feldman talked with Stanford Law School expert Bryant Walker Smi…
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Huawei Hacking is a Security Scandal
Last week, the New York Times reported that the U.S. is spying on router company Huawei to get information about the Chinese government and to learn how to surv…