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The Under and Overhyping of HTC v. Apple
I'm quoted briefly in a story today in E-Commerce Times (see “Apple’s Patent Attack: This Too May be Overhyped” by Erika Morphy) about the patent lawsuit fi…
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Apply Now: CIS Staff Attorney (Unpaid)
The Stanford Law School Center for Internet and Society (CIS) is accepting applications for an unpaid staff attorney to work with its Fair Use Project (FUP) on…
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Sweeping Telecom Data Retention Law Held Unconstitutional in Germany
The German Constitutional Court (GCC) this morning struck down a law that imposed on private telecom operators and service providers such as ISPs and telephone…
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Redrawing The Route To Online Privacy
Ryan Calo, a residential fellow at the Center for Internet & Society, discusses his research on voice and animation technologies that emulate humans to deli…
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The Italian Job: The Real Reason the Google Convictions are Bad Precedent
I was pleased to be interviewed last night on BBC America World News (live!) about the convictions of three senior Google executives by an Italian court for pri…
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New Game in Town: Qui Tam False Marking Cases in Texas
A way of wringing the value out of expired patents is in play. Seven patent infringement cases have been filed during the past two weeks in the Northern Distri…
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Chatroulette: From Art To Commodity
Chatroulette is frame to much of what is terrible and much of what is wonderful about the Internet. It is the best of websites and it is the worst of websites.…
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Amazon Marketplace: Liability in the Cloud?
I don’t usually blog “personal” stories, but this one is irresistible. It raises disturbing questions at the border of digital and physical life, and legal pro…
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Legal Precedent To Be Set On Smartphone Searches
Ryan Calo, a residential fellow at the Center for Internet & Society, talks to Holly Quan of KCBS about whether police searching cell phones at time of arre…
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Judge To Decide If Police Can Search Cell Phones
Ryan Calo, a residential fellow at the Center for Internet & Society, is quoted in the San Mateo County Times on whether police searching cell phones withou…
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Facebook Gripes Protected By Free Speech, Ruling Says
Ryan Calo, a residential fellow at the Center for Internet & Society, is quoted on a student's constitutional right to criticize her teacher on Facebook…
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Google Apologizes for Buzz Fuss, Stops Automation
Ryan Calo, a residential fellow at the Center for Internet & Society, is quoted in CIO Today about the online privacy of Google users with regards to Google…