Report by David Gobaud, Michael Stolte and Francesca Svarcas CIS summer research interns David Gobaud, Michael Stolte and Francesca Svarcas joined Resident Fel…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 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…
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…
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…
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&#…
The hacker who goes by the pseudonym CyFi won't share her real name and declines to be photographed without her signature aviator sunglasses. At the annual…
In honor of anyone who just took a bar exam, here's the wholly hypothetical scenario I used at last week's excellent multidiscliplinary workshop on road…