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When Apps Attack
My colleague Yoshi told me an interesting story the other day. He looked down at his smart phone to find a large spider running across it. Understandably, my…
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Asian firms should trust no one but the tech
It took a while, but it seems revelations that the U.S. government has been brazenly running surveillance across the globe have finally taken a toll on American…
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The Program for Legal Tech + Design
Cross-Posted from Law Design Tech. I’m excited to announce that Ron Dolin & I have started a new Program for Legal Tech & Design at Stanford. We’re ba…
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With Google Books, 'Fair Use' Keeps Widening
A federal judge ruled Thursday that Google Inc.'s project to digitize the full text of millions of copyright-protected books without permission counted as l…
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Can Better Technology Solve the Obesity Crisis? A Future Tense Event Recap.
"Ammori, for one, appreciates gamification: He spoke about how he strives—and strides—to get the “trophy” that his favorite health app gives him each day h…
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Yes, Net Neutrality is a Dead Man Walking. We Already Have a Fast Lane.
"“Net neutrality is a dead man walking,” Marvin Ammori stated in Wired last week, citing the probable demise of the FCC’s Open Internet rules in court. &qu…
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Law Professors Call for Public Process for Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) Intellectual Property Chapter
In the midst of the controversy surrounding the release of a Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) negotiating text on intellectual property by Wikileaks ye…
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Konomark and Decoupage – Who’d Have Thunk It?
One of the coolest konomark requests I've received so far came from Judi Pennella, who sought permission to use a photo of mine to decoupage a play kitchen…
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Google, Facebook and other tech giants object to secret government arguments
When it comes to national security and the Internet, it seems, there's classified information -- and then there are secret arguments about the information.I…
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Fair Use Project and EFF Submit Comments on the Department of Commerce’s Green Paper on Digital Copyright
Yesterday, the Fair Use Project at the Center for Internet & Society and the Electronic Frontier Foundation jointly submitted a set of comments in response…
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Google imitates the black marker of US government censorship in latest transparency report
Google today released its latest transparency report with a stronger message for its users and the United States government, and more detailed reporting about t…
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Google Gets Record Number of User Data Requests From Governments
This year has brought the biggest expansion yet of government efforts around the world to gather user data from Google, one of the globe's most-used search…