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Ninety Days
... from the day Russia deposits its ratification with the UN and the Kyoto Protocol (KP) will enter into force (see Art. 25(1) KP). The Russian Parliament, the…
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3rd Digital Rights Management Conference 2005 in Berlin, Germany
Together with Professor Pamela Samuelson from the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology and some colleagues from Germany and the U.K., CIS Fellow Stefan Bech…
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Marchesini, Open Source TSS
John Marchesini, Sean Smith et al., Open-Source Applications of TCPA Hardware. 20th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference, December 2004.…
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Catching up
Over the last few months, I have been very busy with other projects, and so I couldn't follow the TC discussions very closely. But I hope this will change o…
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Are Americans really divided?
I read this opinion piece by Daniel Yankelovich in the CS Monitor last weekend, which evidently is the first in a series of 8 articles entitled "Talking wi…
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Ninth Circuit rules that reliance on an overbroad subpoena to access ISP-held e-mail does not negate ECPA liability if the suib
Plaintiffs, Wolf and Buckingham, officers of Integrated Capital Associates, Inc (ICA), were embroiled in commercial litigation in New York against defendants, F…
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Video Game Maker Shuts Down Third-Party Server Program
Blizzard Entertainment, maker of the popular computer games Diablo, WarCraft, and StarCraft, won its case in the Eastern District of Missouri against three prog…
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Federal Court Holds Section of Patriot Act Unconstitutional
An Internet Service Provider (“ISP”) received a national security letter (“NSL”) from the FBI pursuant to 18 U.S.C. §2709. This statute was originally enacted…
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Minnesota Statute Regulating Wireless Contracts Reviewed by U.S. District Court
The U.S. District Court in Minnesota considered whether a Minnesota statute that regulates customer notification of and agreement to changes to wireless telecom…
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Court Overturns “Internet Exception” in FEC Regulations
Representatives Christopher Shays (R-Conn.) and Marty Meehan (D-Mass) filed suit against the Federal Elections Commission (FEC), challenging the regulations dev…
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Eleventh Circuit Dismisses ADA Suit Against Southwest Airlines for Its Website’s Inaccessibility to the Visually Impaired
Access Now, Inc., a non-profit organization, and Robert Gumson, a visually impaired individual, appealed a federal district court’s dismissal of their claim aga…
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First Circuit to rehear en banc appeals court decision that interception of electronic communication does not violate the Wireta
Interloc, runs an online rare and out-of-print book listing service, and as part of its services provides certain book dealer customers with an electronic mail…