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Can the US-UK CLOUD Act Agreement be Fixed?
I’ve written here, here, here about the interception flaw in the US-UK Agreement under the CLOUD Act, which permits at least the UK to order US platforms to wir…
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Inside Facebook's efforts to stop revenge porn before it spreads
"“It’s one way to ensure your photos won’t be reposted,” said Danielle Citron, vice president of the Cyber Civil Rights Initiative, a nonprofit dedicated t…
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Tool Without A Handle: “Book Review: Tools and Weapons”
Tool Without A Handle: “Book Review: Tools and Weapons” “Since the dawn of time, any tool can be used for good or ill. Even a broom can be used to sweep the…
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Death, technology and regulatory uncertainty keep self-driving cars on the fringe
"“Automated driving safety does not come down to a test,” said Bryant Walker Smith, associate professor at the University of South Carolina’s School of Law…
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Transparency Reporting After the Cloud Act - It's Time for a Refresh
I’ve written here, here and here about the interception flaw in the US-UK Agreement under the CLOUD Act, which permits at least the UK to order US platforms to…
Privacy Now: How Smart Is It To Have a Smart Speaker?
Just how exposed are we when we invite Amazon Alexa, Google Voice and other voice assistants into our home? Who's listening? And what do they have an impact…
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More Questions about the CLOUD Act and the US-UK Agreement - Can the US direct UK Providers to Wiretap their Users in Third Countries?
In my first blog post on the CLOUD Act and US-UK Agreement, I noted that the wiretap provision of the CLOUD Act - as opposed to the stored content provisions re…
When cyberwar struck its first civilian target
Sandworm: A New Era of Cyberwar and the Hunt for the Kremlin’s Most Dangerous Hackers Andy Greenberg, Doubleday (2019) In 2017, a piece of malicious software c…
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Safeguarding User Freedoms in Implementing Article 17 of the Copyright in the Digital Single Market Directive: Recommendations from European Academics
The implementation of Art. 17 of the Copyright in the Digital Single Market (C-DSM) Directive is ongoing. In particular, the multi-stakeholder dialogue under Ar…
Reforming the C-DSM Reform: a User-Based Copyright Theory for Commonplace Creativity
A few years ago, Nellie Kroes warned that because of ill-adapted laws to technological development, “every day citizens […] across the EU break the law just to…
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Confronting the global ‘crisis’ of misinformation: Inside the UW’s new Center for an Informed Public
"“We can’t have the kind of productive, healing conversations we need to if we can’t get some handle on misinformation or disinformation,” said Ryan Calo,…
Amicus Brief of Cybersecurity Law Professors in Enigma Software v. Malwarebytes
In Enigma Software v. Malwarebytes, the Ninth Circuit ruled that 47 U.S.C. 230(c)(2)(B) does not protect anti-threat classification decisions that are allegedly…