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FTC Dings Google $22.5M in Safari Cookie Flap
Google agreed to pay a record $22.5 million to settle Federal Trade Commission charges it intentionally circumvented the default privacy settings of Apple’s Saf…
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Google's Self-Driving Cars: 300,000 Miles Logged, Not a Single Accident Under Computer Control
This technology is still at its very early stages and 300,000 miles is not all that big of a sample. According to a "cursory" analysis by Bryant Walke…
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Report by the CIS Summer Research Interns on the Transportation Research Board’s 2012 Workshop on the Future of Road Vehicle Automation
Report by David Gobaud, Michael Stolte and Francesca Svarcas CIS summer research interns David Gobaud, Michael Stolte and Francesca Svarcas joined Resident Fel…
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FTC Hits Google With $22.5 Million Fine Over Safari Tracking
Rumors of the $22.5 million settlement first cropped up in June, but the issue dates back to February. At that point, a Stanford University graduate student, Jo…
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Google Hit with Record $22.5-Million fine for Safari Tracking
The FTC said that Google informed Safari users that since the browser blocks third-party cookies, they did not need to opt out of online tracking. Yet Google in…
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Ninth Circuit Gives Government a Pass On Warrantless Wiretapping
Yesterday, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals dismissed a lawsuit against the U.S. Government by Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation, a now-defunct charity that fede…
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TVShack Extradition Case Tumbling as Seventh Circuit Holds Linking/Streaming is Lawful
Last week, the U.S. Department of Justice's (DOJ) criminal prosecution of British citizen Richard O'Dwyer for operating a site called TVShack hit what o…
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NYPD Battles Twitter for Identity of User Promising Violence 'Just Like in Aurora'
If Twitter were to turn over the user's identity at the first request, it could be liable for any mistake or potential invasion of privacy, according to Jen…
The Life, Death, and Revival of Implied Confidentiality
The concept of implied confidentiality has deep legal roots, but it has been largely ignored by the law in online-related disputes. A closer look reveals that i…
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No Surprise, CIS Reliably Sides With Users
Last week a story appeared in Fortune magazine hypothesizing that Google and Facebook are using cy pres settlements of privacy class actions to improperly chann…
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FCC confirms decision to punish Comcast, support open Internet
Congratulations are in order to those who worked hard to promote the cause of an Open Internet. Last month I Interviewed Marvin Ammori, general counsel for the…
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The Industry of Good Feelings
Google's Sergey Brin and Eric Schmidt are on Twitter. Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg is on Google Plus. And Twitter's Jack Dorsey is on Facebook. Isn&#…