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Regarding the Politics of Surveillance Reform
Since 9/11 the spectre of 'terrorism' and the ethos of what I term 'Everwar' and the permanent state of national emergency have permeated the Co…
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Academic Perspectives on Automotive Software Licensing
There's recently been some great reporting and advocacy regarding the legal status of the software running modern motor vehicles. Here are a few academic pe…
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Is your design inspired or stolen?
"Am I a crook?" A design client recently asked me this question about one its designs, and whether is was legally inspired by or stolen from other wor…
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Tesla and Liability
An interesting article in last week’s Wall Street Journal spawned a series of unfortunate headlines (in a variety of publications) suggesting that Tesla had som…
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453 days later...
Welcome news today from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit. By a vote of 11 to 1, the court overturned its injunction against the controversial video…
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Automated Vehicle Crashes
Earlier this week, the Associated Press reported on several past crashes involving automated vehicles. (Per SAE Standard J3016, I use the term "automated v…
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April 2015 in Retrospect: Intermediary Liability News and More from the Internet and Jurisdiction Project
April 2015 in Retrospect is available here: http://www.internetjurisdiction.net/observatory/retrospect/2015-april/ Retrospect is the monthly newsletter of the…
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"Tool Without a Handle: 21st Century Privacy – A Quantum Puzzle
“Tool Without a Handle”: 21st Century Privacy – A Quantum Puzzle As I have been analyzing the ways in which the “tool” metaphor has better explanatory power t…
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A Right To Be Forgotten for Hosting Services?
European courts are beginning to sort through one of the most important follow-up questions to last spring’s “Right To Be Forgotten” ruling in Google v. Costeja…
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March 2015 in Retrospect: Intermediary Liability News and More from the Internet and Jurisdiction Project
March 2015 in Retrospect is available here: http://www.internetjurisdiction.net/observatory/retrospect/2015-march/ Retrospect is the monthly newsletter of the…
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Targeting Safe Harbors to Solve the Music Industry’s YouTube Problem
Last week, the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) released its 2015 Digital Music Report—an annual state of the industry update for di…
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Technologists oppose CISA/information sharing bills
Today we sent a letter to lawmakers expressing security experts' opposition to the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA) as well as two other pending…