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Anonymous Plays Games With U.S. Sites
"Kerr's proposals have been picked up and refined by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), in what calls "Aaron's Law." The group'…
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Liability Issues Create Potholes on the Road to Driverless Cars
Bryant Walker Smith, a lecturer at Stanford Law School who has studied driverless vehicles, said the new laws leave many issues unaddressed. In part, that is be…
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Who’s Watching Those Unblinking Eyes in the Sky?
Ryan Calo, an assistant professor at the University of Washington School of Law, told IPS that privacy issues surrounding the use of drones are also limiting th…
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The suicide of Aaron Swartz: an appropriate platform for CFAA reform?
"Stanford Law School’s Professor Jennifer Granick disagrees, and she chastises Professor Kerr for lumping Aaron’s alleged conduct of “circumventing code-ba…
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Hacktivist anger over US government's 'ludicrous' cyber crackdown
"Jennifer Granick, an attorney and the director for civil liberties at the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford law school, writing after Swartz'…
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Thoughts on Orin Kerr's CFAA Reform Proposals: A Great Second Step
Law professor and cybercrime expert Orin Kerr published a proposal to amend the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) to address the overcriminalization that he h…
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Will Disney Let You See This Movie?
Randy Moore’s dark drama Escape From Tomorrow premiered this week at the Sundance Film Festival and quickly became one of the most buzzed-about oddities in Park…
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Obscurity: A Better Way to Think About Your Data Than 'Privacy'
Cross-posted from The Atlantic By Woodrow Hartzog and Evan Selinger Facebook's announcement of its new Graph search tool on Tuesday set off yet another ro…
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DVR Protections Invoked to Pause Associated Press
The AP's argument is "unfounded and dangerous to innovation," according to the brief authored by Julie Ahrens, of Stanford Law School's Center…
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London's Tube Is Getting 'Contactless' Payments. Could They Work in the U.S.?
In a conversation with Ryan Calo, a law professor at the University of Washington and privacy expert, he pointed out that if companies use information about how…
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New film goes in search of Google's first privacy policy
Ryan Calo, an assistant professor at the University of Washington School of Law, has called for companies to use simple icons denoting how user data is collecte…
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New Facebook Tool, Te'o Scandal Fan Flames of Privacy Debate
"It's fair to question the common narrative that because [Graph] Search respects privacy settings, then there aren't privacy issues,"said Wood…