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Government Needs a Trip to Startup Land
On a Friday night in early June, eight strangers came up with an idea to help poor Americans on government assistance gain access to healthier food. They design…
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Government Needs a Trip to Startup Land
Government Needs a Trip to Startup Land: An article in Wired. * Publication Type:Other Writing * Publication Date:07/19/2012…
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Music artists claim website promoted infringement
By Ben Adlin "The First Amendment concerns jump right out at you," said Julie Ahrens, associate director of Stanford Law School's Fair Use Projec…
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Pay-TV industry not united on TV Everywhere
Want to watch an episode of TNT's"The Closer" online? You have to fill out a form on TNT's website, proving you have a cable or satellite tel…
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Google would pay record FTC fine under tentative Apple Safari settlement
Among the first to discover Google’s use of cookies on Apple’s browser was Stanford University graduate student Jonathan Mayer, who is working toward law and co…
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Stanford Students: Fall 2012 Course on the Law of Autonomous Driving
Nantucket responded to the introduction of motor vehicles by banning them. And this is how the town's mail carrier responded to that ban: A century later,…
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Is US government reading email without a warrant? It doesn't want to talk about it
ACLU lawyer Catherine Crump, who ran the cellphone location data investigation, is at it again. This time, she has filed similar Freedom of Information Act requ…
Safety Is Big Concern for Autonomous Cars
Researchers are hard at work to make sure that autonomous cars will be safe. In doing so, a wealth of technology is making its way into today's vehicles. C…
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Our FTC Privacy Story And Its Critics
On June 28, ProPublica published a story by Peter Maass about the Federal Trade Commission and its efforts to protect the online privacy of consumers. The headl…
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Announcing Speaker Panel & Fundraiser for Without My Consent
Earlier this month, Without My Consent (my CIS fellow project) reached its one-year anniversary. To celebrate, we're pleased to announce our first speaker p…
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The Humboldt Internet Law Clinic Launched
Anyone who has ever attended law school in the United States knows what legal clinics are about. In recent years, clinical work with students in law school sett…
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Your FTC Privacy Watchdogs: Low-Tech, Defensive, Toothless
Jonathan Mayer had a hunch. The young computer scientist suspected that online advertisers might be following consumers around the web — even when they set the…