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Tool Without a Handle: "Trustworthy Tools"
“Tool Without a Handle: Trustworthy Tools” “’What is truth?’ said jesting Pilate, who did not stay for an answer.” – Francis Bacon, Of Truth (Essays, Civil an…
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Should Government Agencies Know Precisely Where You Get Picked Up and Dropped Off?
I submitted comments this week to the New York City Taxi and Limousine Commission as the Director of Privacy at the Center for Internet and Society (CIS). The e…
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Uber vs. the law
Uber is testing its self-proclaimed “self-driving” vehicles on California roads without complying with the testing requirements of California’s automated drivin…
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Tool Without a Handle: "A Dust Cloud of Nonsense"
Tool Without a Handle: “A Dust Cloud of Nonsense” On October 30, 1938, the “Mercury Theater on the Air” broadcast a radio drama adaptation of H.G. Wells’ scie…
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CEIPI Opinion on a EU Proposal for a Neighboring Right for Press Publishers Online
At CEIPI, I have co-authored with Christophe Geiger and Oleksandr Bulayenko a position paper discussing the proposed introduction in EU law of neighboring right…
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My Dissent from Professor Kerr's Opinion on the Consequences of the Microsoft Ireland Case
In his November 29, 2016, Volokh Conspiracy post, Professor Orin Kerr raised some important points about the unintended or unanticipated consequences of the so-…
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Dear Silicon Valley: Great satire can be fake news!
Watch out! Fake news is coming to get you! Lock your doors and iPhones, guard your dogs and children, and hold on to your comb overs! But is fake news so bad, a…
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Wiretap Numbers Still Don't Add Up
Earlier this year, I wrote that the wiretap numbers reported by the Administrative Office (AO) of the US Courts in its 2014 Wiretap Report and those disclosed i…
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Global Right to Be Forgotten Delisting: Why CNIL is Wrong
The French Data Protection Agency, CNIL, is currently before a French court, arguing that Google needs to do more to comply with “Right to Be Forgotten” or “Rig…
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Points of Consensus on Rule 41
Senator Chris Coons, Democrat from Delaware, offered a bill today that would delay implementation of proposed changes to Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 41 f…
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This election was not hacked – but it was attacked
This election was not hacked – but it was attacked Richard Forno, University of Maryland, Baltimore County The presidential campaign of 2016 thankfully – and…
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What the Second Circuit Just Got Wrong about the DMCA in EMI v. MP3Tunes
With the Second Circuit’s recent decision in EMI v. MP3Tunes, the formerly small body of case law interpreting § 512(i) of the DMCA – the “repeat infringer” pro…