“I believe a fine would be appropriate,” said Jonathan Mayer, a researcher and graduate student at Stanford Law School [and CIS Student Fellow], in an email to…
Is Your ISP Becoming A Copyright Cop? The Graduated Response Program and "Voluntary" Efforts to Police Online Infringement Lunch time talk with Corynn…
Patrick Lin, director of the Ethics and Emerging Sciences Group at California Polytechnic State University [and CIS Affiliate Scholar], made the "stand you…
This February, Stanford researcher Jonathan Mayer published a study that found that Google and three other companies, Vibrant Media Inc., WPP PLC’s Media Innova…
We Robot - April 21-22, 2012Inaugural Conference on Legal and Policy Issues Relating to RoboticsPanel Presentation: Social Issues in RoboticsModerator: Ryan Cal…
Last week, Concurring Opinions hosted a symposium on my book. Here are links to the posts: Frank Pasquale’s Introduction to the Infrastructure Symposium: *…
Last week, Concurring Opinions hosted a symposium on my book. Here are links to the posts: Frank Pasquale’s Introduction to the Infrastructure Symposium: *…
Lately, I have been puzzled by the proliferation of bank-mobile operator partnerships in the developed and emerging countries. The mobile carriers provide the…
With the U.S. Presidential Election season out of the gate, a shrill bloodbath of social media soon will decry or herald the records of President Barack Obama a…
Ever get the feeling that someone is watching you? Well, you may want to get used to it. While the US government has been putting un-manned drones to heavy use…
When a company sells a car that truly drives itself, the responsibility will fall on its maker. “It’s accepted in our world that there will be a shift,” says Br…
The internet was another one of those gloriously creative, anarchic technologies that spawned utopian dreams. Its internal architecture – its technical DNA, if…