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DoJ Misleads Court on CALEA in the Apple Case
The Department of Justice (DoJ) filed its response yesterday to Apple's motion to vacate the court’s order that directed Apple to write new code and certify…
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Berkeley Talk on Apple vs. the FBI
On March 7, 2016, I had the pleasure of giving a talk to the Berkeley Information Privacy Law Association at Berkeley Law. I discussed the so-called "Apple…
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Trademarks as Keywords: Spanish Supreme Court finds no infringement
The Spanish Supreme Court (TS) has recently ruled on the legality of using someone else’s trademark as a keyword to trigger sponsored ads in Google Adwords. The…
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Tool Without a Handle: Tools for Terror, Tools for Peace
“Tool Without a Handle”: Tools for Terror; Tools for Peace This blog has addressed principles and challenges in countering odious online content – both conten…
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CIS Files Amici Curiae Brief in Apple Case on Behalf of iPhone Security Experts and Applied Cryptographers
Right now, all eyes are on Riverside, California, where a federal magistrate judge issued an unprecedented and dangerous order to Apple on February 16 compellin…
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FBI v. Apple -- Can doesn't mean should obey.
The FBI investigates a grizzly murder. You are a bank president. The murderer stored his phone book in your bank's safety deposit box, the code for which is…
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February 2016 in Retrospect: Intermediary Liability News and More from the Internet and Jurisdiction Project
February 2016 in Retrospect is available here: http://www.internetjurisdiction.net/observatory/retrospect/2016-february/ Retrospect is a flagship publication…
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Apple Order Would Permit Vendor-Delivered Wiretap Capability But For CALEA
Apple filed its brief yesterday to vacate the court’s order to write software to disable the security features of the iPhone so that the government could gain a…
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Reflections on the FBI's Attempt to Dragoon Apple Into Subverting iPhone Security
On Monday, I wrote a post for Just Security where I reflected on last week's news concerning the FBI's attempts to coerce Apple into creating a forensic…
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Technologists' Brief in Wikimedia v. NSA
Today, the Stanford Center for Internet and Society and attorney Matthew J. Craig of Shapiro Arato LLP filed an amicus brief on behalf of Internet networking ex…
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More CALEA and Why It Trumps the FBI's All Writs Act Order
The Director of the FBI has made an emotional appeal to get support to compel Apple to crack its own security to provide access to the locked phone it seized fr…
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CALEA Limits the All Writs Act and Protects the Security of Apple's Phones
The government filed a brief today to compel Apple to circumvent its standard security features on the iPhone the government recovered from San Bernadino terror…