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Publication

The Case for Online Obscurity

On the Internet, obscure information has a minimal risk of being discovered or understood by unintended recipients. Empirical research demonstrates that Interne…

Press

Robot Rules

Ryan Calo, a residential fellow at the Center for Internet & Society, is quoted on robotics and liability issues. Richard Acello of the ABA Journal filed th…

Blog

ECPA and the Law of Disruption

I write in “The Laws of Disruption” of the risk of unintended consequences that regulators run in legislating emerging technologies.  Because the pace of change…

Blog

New Blog: Robotics And The Law

I started a new blog around robotics programming and scholarship at Stanford Law School.  Some of us here believe that robotics is a transformative technology o…

Blog

Addicted to conflict

"There's plenty of evidence to support that we don't need to fight... it's almost like we're addicted to the fight... the media is very con…

Case

Aguiar v. Webb

Plaintiff William V. Aguiar III, sued documentary filmmaker Floyd Webb, alleging that Webb’s promotional website and film trailer for his upcoming film infringe…

Blog

Backstage drama at Wikipedia DE

This is a fascinating case study of an in depth online dispute involving a very tech savvy and high profile team. Mathieu von Rohr in Speigel Online: "It…