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Public Interest Requires Public Input: Verizon/Android Tethering
Cross-posted from Barbara van Schewick's blog. According to recent news reports, Verizon Wireless has asked Google to disable tethering applications in Goo…
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Complaint of Free Press Against Cellco Partnership d/b/a Verizon Wireless for Violating Conditions Imposed on C Block of Upper 700 MHz Spectrum, filed June 6, 2011
In summer 2011, news reports claimed that Verizon Wireless had asked Google to disable tethering applications in Google’s mobile application store, the Android…
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Supreme Court Grants Cert in Fourth Amendment Cases, will review GPS Privacy, Legitimacy of Cut and Paste Language in Warrants
[For the original of this post, with links, go to the ZwillGen blog]: The U.S. Supreme Court promises some interesting Fourth Amendment activity next term, havi…
Archon Fung - Hearsay Culture Show #143 - KZSU-FM
A talk show on KZSU-FM, Stanford, 90.1 FM, hosted by Center for Internet & Society Resident Fellow David S. Levine. The show includes guests and focuses on…
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Novojustice
Just a quick note to say I've started a new blog as preparation for a book I'm doing for the ABA in 2012 -- so most of my blogging energy has shifted ov…
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A Tale of Two Lawsuits
Thanks to sites like Yelp, online citizen reviews are often the first thing people read about local businesses. So it's not surprising that business owners…
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Nevada state law paves the way for driverless cars
Ryan Calo, CIS Director of Privacy and Robotics, blog on the passage of the Nevada autonomous driving bill is mentioned in this Financial Post article by Christ…
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Nevada Governor Signs Driverless Car Bill Into Law
According to the Nevada Legislature's website, AB 511 "revis[ing] certain provisions governing transportation" passed the Assembly (36-6) and the…
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Nevada Passes Law Authorizing Driverless Cars
Ryan Calo, CIS Director of Privacy and Robotics, is quoted by Alex Knapp in this Forbes article on the passage of the Nevada autonomous driving bill and what is…
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Court Holds ECPA allows Myspace to Disclose Private Messages Pursuant to Out Of State Warrant
On June 1, Judge Kaplan of the Southern District of New York dismissed the complaint in Hubbard v. Myspace. Hubbard is the latest case to reject the claim that…
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Proposed GPS Act Clarifies, Improves Location Privacy
On June 15, Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) and Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) announced the Geolocational Privacy and Surveillance Act, a statute which would require law e…
Golan v. Holder - American Library, et al. Supreme Court Amicus Brief in support of Golan
BRIEF AMICI CURIAE OF AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION, ASSOCIATION OF COLLEGE AND RESEARCH LIBRARIES, ASSOCIATION OF RESEARCH LIBRARIES, UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN DEA…