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The "Going Dark" Debate: No News Isn’t Necessarily Good News
This year’s Black Hat USA conference is currently underway in Las Vegas. Last year, Jennifer Granick and I spoke at Black Hat about handling technical assistanc…
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Kharitonov v Russia Will Set Boundaries for Constitutionally Acceptable Website (Over)Blocking
The European Court of Human Rights will soon hear a key case on website blocking and freedom of expression online - Kharitonov v Russia (app no. 10795/14). The…
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Ominous: Canadian Court Orders Google to Remove Search Results Globally
The Canadian Supreme Court this morning issued its long-awaited ruling in Equustek. The court upheld an order compelling Google to remove search results for spe…
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“Tool Without a Handle: Reflections on 20 years from Reno v. ACLU”
On 26 June 1997, in Reno v ACLU,[1] the US Supreme Court decided the fate of the Communications Decency Act (“CDA”), insofar as it criminalized the intentional…
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What Packingham v. North Carolina Should Mean for the DMCA
The US Supreme Court issued opinions in two important First Amendment cases this week, one of which obviously had to do with intellectual property law (Matal v.…
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The Cross-Border Data Fix: It’s Not So Simple
The House Judiciary Committee held a hearing yesterday on cross-border data requests, featuring testimony from the Department of Justice, the U.K. government, G…
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BREIN v. Ziggo: The Pirate Bay Dies Again
The Pirate Bay (TPB), that perennial nemesis of copyright holders, is on the ropes again following the CJEU's decision this week in BREIN v. Ziggo. BREIN, t…
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Tool Without a Handle: Mutual Transparency in Social Media
“Tool Without a Handle: Mutual Transparency in Social Media” “I wish that for just one time You could stand inside my shoes And just for that one moment I…
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First Amendment’s Outward Creep Makes It Harder to Hold Platforms Accountable
Today, the Stanford Law Review published my very first single-authored publication, “Expanding the Periphery and Threatening the Core: The Ascendant Libertarian…
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Government Hacking: Evidence and Vulnerability Disclosure in Court
On April 5, CIS and Mozilla hosted the final event in a series of discussions designed to identify and debate important policy issues related to the practice of…
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CIS Progress in Unsealing Surveillance Records
In September 2016, we filed a Petition in the Northern District of California (the federal district court for the Bay Area and much of Northern California) aski…
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Internet & Jurisdiction's April in Retrospect: Blocks in Turkey, Russia and Iran, Hate Speech Bill in Debate in Germany, and More.
The April 2017 edition of Retrospect is now available. This edition brings news about blocks in Turkey, Russia and Iran, developments of a legislative effort t…