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Alalalai! . . . Rojadirecta is Up for Battle Again in Italy
The ongoing claims against the Rojadirecta website for linking to streams of sporting events are novel and quite important in defining the rights and responsibi…
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Welcome Giancarlo Frosio!
We here at CIS are delighted to welcome Giancarlo Frosio to our team. Giancarlo is our new Intermediary Liability Fellow, studying the ways that liabilities, i…
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Recurring Myths About the Legal Obligations of Online Platforms
Cross-posted from Ammori.org In recent months, some copyright holders, pharmaceutical companies, and state attorneys general have made allegations against Inte…
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Madness And Privacy Harm
Recent research suggests a new trend among paranoid schizophrenics: they believe they are secretly being taped by hidden cameras for purposes of a reality show.…
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My Dinner with General Alexander
On July 30, 2013, I had the pleasure of having dinner with General Keith Alexander, Director of the National Security Agency. Just a few weeks earlier, NYU Law…
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The FTC and the New Common Law of Privacy
Daniel Solove and I have recently posted a draft of our new article, The FTC and the New Common Law of Privacy. One of the great ironies about information priv…
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CIS Affiliate Scholars Win Best Paper Award at 2013 PLSC
CIS affiliates Ryan Calo and Woodrow Hartzog won the two best paper awards at the 2013 Privacy Law Scholars Conference. Ryan Calo for his paper “Digital Market…
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Why Opt Out Of Tracking? Here's A Reason
The Stanford Center for Internet and Society, where I am an affiliate scholar, is a thought leader on consumer privacy and a source for potential solutions. Th…
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Initial Thoughts on POTUS surveillance reforms
During a rare mid-afternoon late summer Friday press conference, President Obama outlined several actions that he believes will help restore American citizens&#…
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The NSA/DEA Team-Up vs. Enemies Foreign and Domestic
The latest chapter in the ongoing tale of NSA overreach may be the most troubling one yet. Reuters has revealed that NSA has been sharing information with a sec…
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Give Me Complicity or Give Me Death: Lavabit Chooses Death
Today, Lavabit, an email service provider that promised its customers better privacy and security than other publicly available services, shut its doors. Readi…
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Ninth Circuit Rules That Celebrity "Rights" Trump Free Speech
Cross-posted from EFF. Should a minor celebrity's right to wring every drop he can from his fame trump the right to create a realistic work? The Ninth Circ…