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Robot car enthusiasts worry about new threat: lawyers
""Is it appropriate to have a federal legislative response to the liability question?" said Bryant Smith, a resident fellow at the Stanford Cente…
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Robot Wars: With The Technology In Place, Inventors Examine Legal Hurdles
"Ryan Calo of the University of Washington law school proposes that Congress allow the kind of selective immunity seen in firearm manufacturing - an immuni…
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Ravens Logo Appeal Threatens Filmmaker Rights, MPAA Says
Julie Ahrens, an attorney for the amici, noted Tuesday that the MPAA, the International Documentary Association and Film Independent aren't always necessari…
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Amid Calls for Reform, a Rare Trial of Hacking Law
""Because the language is vague and the way we've used computers has changed so much, there has been a great amount of litigation and dispute abou…
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EFF patent lawyer rates lawyer-rating patent ‘terrible’
""It's a terrible patent," says Daniel Nazer, a staff attorney for the Electronic Frontier Foundation and its exemplary Patent Busting Projec…
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Washington House Panel Rejects Push For Passwords
"University of Washington law professor Ryan Calo, who studies emerging technologies, said companies have federal, state and common laws that protect propr…
Law professors challenge secrecy in fracking
For Immediate Release April 2, 2013 Media Contact: Philip Craft, Elon University School of Law (336) 279-9333 / pcraft@elon.edu Ten law professors with exper…
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Transparency, but what are we seeing?
Cross-posted from http://katewestmoreland.wordpress.com/ Now that Microsoft has come to the party and is publishing a regular transparency report, there is a m…
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Letter to Goodlatte Criticizes CFAA Anti-Reform Language
I am a signatory to a letter to Rep. Robert Goodlatte and other legislators critiquing draft legislation reportedly slated for consideration this month that wou…
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Emails Detail Northern District's Use of Controversial Surveillan
"Jennifer Granick, director of civil liberties at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society, said it would be troubling if prosecutors did not inform Se…
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Letting Down Our Guard With Web Privacy
"“His work has gone a long way in trying to help us figure out how irrational we are in privacy related decisions,” says Woodrow Hartzog, an assistant prof…
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The Computer Fraud and Abuse Act: Swartz, Auernheimer, and beyond
"In this video from Shmoocon 2013, Professor Orin Kerr and Marcia Hofmann from EFF discuss several recent prosecutions brought under the Act, including cas…