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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…
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The GDPR and National Legislation: Relevant Articles for Private Platform Adjudication of “Right to Be Forgotten” Requests
In a recent blog post, I discuss the role of EU Member State laws in defining and enforcing the “Right to Be Forgotten” (RTBF) under the EU’s new General Data P…
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Copyright Liability for Streaming Box Distributors: A Comparative EU-US Perspective
“Loaded” Kodi set-top boxes are back in the copyright news again this week. (If you’re wondering what Kodi boxes are, and what they have to do with copyrights,…
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The “Right to Be Forgotten” and National Laws Under the GDPR
The EU’s new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will come into effect in the spring of 2018, bringing with it a newly codified version of the “Right to B…
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There’s a Massive First Amendment Threat (and It’s Not Donald Trump)
Editor’s note: This post previews my forthcoming Stanford Law Review article, “Expanding the Periphery and Threatening the Core: The Ascendant Libertarian Speec…
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Crowdsourced Lit Review: First Amendment Theory & Technology
Updated May 11, 2017. Keep your recommendations coming and I'll update periodically. Nailing down the definitive literature on First Amendment expressive f…