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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…
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Are you a tyrant?
Interview in the NYT: "Q. You tell business owners to forget about being likable. Is there something wrong with employees liking you? A. You have to trea…
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Google Books Redux: The DoJ Tones Down its Objections
I write today on CNET (see "Gripes over Google Books go Technical") about the Department of Justice's filing last week in the Google Books case.…
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One-Way Mirror Society
Pam Dixon of World Privacy Forum has released an eye-opening new report (PDF) about offline consumer surveillance. Pam describes a quiet revolution in digital…
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Alameda DA Clears Brown's Office In Privacy Flap
Alameda County's district attorney announced Thursday that Attorney General Jerry Brown's office did not break privacy laws by recording phone conversat…
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The Privacy/Law Enforcement Legal Whipsaw
Even as the issue of privacy continues to confound much brighter people than me, the related problem of securing the Internet has also been getting a great deal…