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Tool Without a Handle: Quantum Paradox #3
This installment on the quantum paradox extends the privacy analysis to the adjacent field of free expression and content moderation. Free expression issues ar…
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Federal judge shines a spotlight on the “going dark” debate
Last Friday, a New York federal judge joined in the contentious current debate over whether tech companies should be forced to provide law enforcement the abili…
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Empirical Evidence of “Over-Removal” by Internet Companies under Intermediary Liability Laws
NOTE: I periodically update this post. Last update was May 8, 2020. The "Over-Removal" Issue Most intermediaries offer legal “Notice and Takedown”…
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Computers, Freedom, and Privacy 2015
I am heading to (and speaking at) the 25th Anniversary Computers, Freedom, and Privacy (CFP) this week over in Alexandria, VA. Looking forward to seeing old fr…
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Intermediary Liability and User Content under Europe’s New Data Protection Law
Cross-posted to the Internet Policy Review News & Comments and Inforrm blogs. A big new law is coming, and a lot of companies doing business online aren’t…
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No more right-to-be-forgotten for Mr. Costeja, says Spanish Data Protection Authority
The man who won the right-to-be-forgotten case in the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has now been denied the right to suppress links to comments…
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Data and protecting the right to privacy
Cross-posted from the Knight Foundation. Video: Knight News Challenge: Data. Jennifer Granick is director of civil liberties at the Center for Internet and So…
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First Amendment & Cyberlaw Scholars File Brief to Defend Open Internet Rules
On Monday, September 21st, fifteen of the nation's leading First Amendment and cyberlaw scholars -- including Jack Balkin (Yale), Yochai Benkler (Harvard),…
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The ‘Right to Be Forgotten’, the right to be included, and global content regulation
Today the French Data Protection regulator, CNIL, reaffirmed its position that Google must apply European “Right to Be Forgotten” (RTBF) law globally, by removi…
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DNI and Cyber Command Shed Light on Cyber Threats and Cyber Efforts
Last week, two very interesting documents related to US national cyber security concerns and efforts were released. The first is the testimony of Director of N…
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August 2015 in Retrospect: Intermediary Liability News and More from the Internet and Jurisdiction Project
August 2015 in Retrospect is available here: http://www.internetjurisdiction.net/observatory/retrospect/2015-august/ Retrospect is the monthly newsletter of t…
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Government Cheating on the Sotomayor Surveillance Scale
In her concurring opinion in US v. Jones, 565 U.S. ___ (2012), Justice Sonia Sotomayor brought up a crucial point regarding a democracy's natural acceptance…