Trump won’t allow you to use iPads or laptops on certain airlines. Here’s why.
From Tuesday on, passengers traveling to the U.S. from 10 airports in eight Muslim-majority countries will not be allowed to have iPads, laptops or any communic…
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A cop fires. A teen dies. Yet six police body cameras somehow miss what happens.
"“Just because a police department uses body cameras doesn’t mean they’ll be accountable and transparent,” said Harlan Yu of the technology policy research…
The Resistance Must Be Digitized
Over the past two months, millions of people have taken to the streets to challenge our nation’s authoritarian new president. From the women’s marches that too…
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The WikiLeaks CIA release: When will we learn?
The WikiLeaks CIA release: When will we learn? This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. Richard Forno, University…
Hyperloop Law: Autonomy, Infrastructure, and Transportation Startups
In 2013, Elon Musk proposed an "open source transportation concept" of levitating vehicles zooming passengers through vacuum tubes at 760 miles an hou…
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A Response to Paul Vixie’s "Notice, Takedown, Borders, and Scale”
Late last month, I posted to SSRN a draft of my forthcoming article, “Notice and Takedown in the Domain Name System: ICANN’s Ambivalent Drift into Online Conten…
Expanding the Periphery and Threatening the Core: The Ascendant Libertarian Speech Tradition
Abstract Though scholars have identified the expanding scope of First Amendment speech doctrine, little attention has been paid to the theoretical transformati…
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Civil Rights Groups, Funded by Telecoms, Back Donald Trump’s Plan to Kill Net Neutrality
"“The Congress that tried to destroy net neutrality once would only weaken it with legislation that fails to adequately protect those it is meant to serve,…
Trump's Immigration Order Signals Sharp Departure from Other Post-WWII Presidents
As "leader of the free world," every post-World War II US President has expressed some form of public support for refugees through speeches and White…
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Tech Could Do More to Oppose Trump—at a Price
"But standing up to a president also carries risks, especially for publicly traded companies, which face a legal obligation to put profit ahead of protest.…
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Facebook, Google, Apple Lead U.S. Business Charge Against Trump Travel Ban
"The upcoming letter will be another show of unity for the industry, said Andrew Bridges, a lawyer at Fenwick & West who is not involved in the draftin…
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Overcoming ‘cyber-fatigue’ requires users to step up for security
As a new presidential administration takes over, it will need to pay significant attention to cybersecurity. Indeed, we’ve already been told to expect “a compre…