Net Neutrality: The Battle to Keep the Internet Open and Free with Barbara van Schewick
It's easy to take for granted that we get to use the websites and apps of our choice. That's thanks to net neutrality, the principle that we get to make…
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MacArthur Genius Danielle Citron on Deepfakes and the Representative Katie Hill Scandal
When Danielle Citron began studying online harassment more than a decade ago, her argument that online mobs and coordinated harassment constituted civil-rights…
Daphne Keller on the Regulation of Online Speech
In this episode, Daphne Keller, Director of Intermediary Liability at the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School and former Associate General Co…
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Will Data Security See a '90s Throwback + YouTube Dodges Public Forum Fight + People Are Mad at Mark Zuckerberg, Again Will Data Security See a '90s Throwback + YouTube Dodges Public Forum Fight + People Are Mad at Mark Zuckerberg, Again
"However, Riana Pfefferkorn, associate director of Stanford Law’s surveillance and cybersecurity program, said she doesn’t think it would be as simple as r…
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Lizzo's 'Truth Hurts' Saga: Can You Sue Over a Copied Tweet?
"So is the "100 percent that bitch" line original enough to win a copyright suit? Experts aren't so sure. Ben Depoorter, a copyright law prof…
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WhatsApp's Case Against NSO Group Hinges on a Tricky Legal Argument
"But WhatsApp's lawsuit doesn't make any mention of prior notice to NSO to stop abusing its services or hacking its users. "I don’t see anythi…
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Facebook Sues Israel’s NSO Group Over Alleged WhatsApp Attack
"If Facebook’s allegations in the civil complaint are accurate, the federal government could have grounds for a criminal case against NSO Group, said Jenni…
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Companies shouldn’t keep ‘honeypots of data’ that attract bad actors, says executive at Google search rival
"It’s no longer enough just to protect against hacks and data breaches. Companies also have a responsibility not to attract bad actors to their services, a…
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As AI joins battlefield, Pentagon seeks ethicist
"Having an ethicist might help mediate some of these tensions, depending on how much power they have, says Patrick Lin, a philosophy professor specializing…
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Florida Claims to be a Driverless Car Paradise. Critics Call It a Lawless Mess
"“What sets Florida apart is the number of laws,” says Bryant Walker Smith, a professor of law who studies AVs at the University of South Carolina. Walker…
5 milestones that created the internet, 50 years after the first network message
Fifty years ago, a UCLA computer science professor and his student sent the first message over the predecessor to the internet, a network called ARPANET. On Oc…
Is Carpenter Unemployed? Carpenter v. United States One Year Later
Increasingly, we are incorporating into our daily lives devices and services that collect metadata: from our smartphones, to our web browsers, to an ever-expand…