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Cops Might Finally Need a Warrant to Read Your Gmail
"E-mail and its eventual successors are simply too important to be governed by inconsistent and confusing standards," wrote Woodrow Hartzog, a profess…
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Appreciating what we’ve built (or dismissing the myth of the "romantic" business owner / entrepreneur / free market)
[What follows is the short version of a somewhat dated but still relevant, unplaced op-ed. I'll post the long version on the madisonian.net blog for anyone…
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Law Students Should Embrace Social Media, Study Suggests
Lawyers also report using social media for professional reasons in larger numbers, according to the survey. In 2012, 9 percent of lawyers blog professionally—co…
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Apple vs. Samsung: Is Copying Theft or Innovation?
Does anyone own the rectangle? Should anyone own the rectangle?These questions may sound absurd, but they're at the heart of U.S. patent law's Battle of…
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Hackers claim FBI file 12 million Apple device IDs
A hacking collective on Monday released what it claims are more than one million unique device numbers for Apple products that it allegedly pulled from an FBI a…
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Hackers Leak 1 Million Apple Device IDs
To cap off a summer of devastating corporate data breaches, hackers yesterday posted online what might be the crown jewel of 2012 data dumps: 1 million identifi…
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Use Social Media to Get Into Law School
As with Facebook, if you decide to follow a law school on Twitter, you should make your Twitter profile private unless you use Twitter purely as a professional…
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Twitter’s Free Speech Defender
Alexander Macgillivray, Twitter’s chief lawyer, says that fighting for free speech is more than a good idea. He thinks it is a competitive advantage for his com…
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Privacy, Masks and Religion
Photo: Basking & masking. In China, where sun tan is negatively stigmatized, beach goers wear masks. One of the most significant developments for privacy l…
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Drone-Tracking App Gets No Traction From Apple
CIS Affiliate Scholar Ryan Calo is quoted in this All Things Considered piece on Apple's decision to block a drone-tracking app due to objectionable content…
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Apple vs. Samsung
Chris Sprigman, professor of law at the University of Virginia, co-author of The Knockoff Economy: How Imitation Sparks Innovation,and CIS Affiliate Scholar dis…
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Australia Moves To Massively Expand Internet Surveillance
The Australian government has proposed sweeping changes to its surveillance and national security laws. The government’s wish list includes mandatory data reten…