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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…
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Internet & Jurisdiction's February in Retrospect: Right to be de-indexed in Japan and France, Blocking Orders in Sweden and Russia, and more
The February 2017 edition of Retrospect is now available. This edition brings news about the right to be de-indexed in Japan and France, information about block…
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Tool Without a Handle: "Trustworthy Tools" - Part 2
In my previous blog on propaganda, I noted that private information, when stolen and put in a public context, can prove useful for propaganda efforts. This pos…
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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…
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"Smart Cities" Are Too Smart for Your Privacy
No one wants to live in a “dumb” city. But I question whether anyone ought to want to live in a really smart city either. I’d prefer to just live in a smarter…
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Legislative Shout Outs to Georgia and Virginia
How Governments Can Promote Automated Driving recommended that governments conduct "legal audits" to "identify and analyze every statute and regu…
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Internet & Jurisdiction's January in Retrospect: fake news in the EU, “toxic” content in Vietnam, and other cases
The January 2017 edition of Retrospect is now available.Retrospect is the flagship, open-access publication of the Internet & Jurisdiction policy network, d…
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Wiretap Reports Not So Transparent
I have been writing for some time about the huge discrepancy between the number of wiretaps reported annually by the Administrative Office (AO) of the US Courts…
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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…
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Remember That Time We Saved the Internet?
My Twitter feed tells me that today is the fifth anniversary of the day the Internet “went dark” in protest of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect…
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Using Transparency to Fight Takedown Trolls – A Model from the DMCA
The Internet is full of trolls. So it’s no surprise that notice and takedown systems for online speech attract their fair share of them – people insisting that…
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DMCA Counter-Notice: Does It Work to Correct Erroneous Takedowns?
This blog post is excerpted from our filing in response to the U.S. Copyright Office's 2016 Notice and Request for Public Comment on notice and takedown pra…