What Last Week's NSA Leaks Can Teach Us about Technology and Politics
Last week was a busy one for the National Security Agency. On Wednesday, the Guardian revealed a top secret court order that compelled Verizon to turn over meta…
Last week was a busy one for the National Security Agency. On Wednesday, the Guardian revealed a top secret court order that compelled Verizon to turn over meta…
Last week, President Obama met with Chinese President Xi Jinping to discuss the ongoing problem of Chinese cyber espionage. The Obama administration has recentl…
It seems like the world has been turned upside down when a US citizen flees to China seeking political asylum. And yet Edward Snowden is apparently hiding out…
The New Republic recently published a piece by Jeffrey Rosen titled “The Delete Squad: Google, Twitter, Facebook, and the New Global Battle Over the Future of F…
On Wednesday, news broke that the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) had been routinely collecting all call metadata on every Verizon (and presumably other tel…
UPDATE #1 (1900 ET): The WaPo and Guardian report this evening that through its PRISM program, NSA also is directly tapped into the systems of many leading Int…
Should individuals hold veto power over depictions of reality? That's the question at the heart of Hart v. Electronic Arts, Inc., and we here at the Fair Us…
"Will lawsuits kill the autonomous car?" That's a dramatic expression of a common question. (And one to which Twitter has a short retort.) Here’s…
Cross-posted from The Nation. Co-Authored with Ari Melber and Evan Selinger. Facebook is on the defensive again. Members of the social networking site sued the…
When Florida v. Jardines, the case where an officer approached a house with a drug-sniffing dog, first came down, Orin Kerr and others noted that the Supreme Co…
Cross-posted from The Atlantic Victims of non-consensual pornography, sometimes called "revenge porn," often receive little help from the law. Many w…
Judge Richard Posner took the occasion of the Boston bombing to remind us of his view that privacy should lose out to other values. Privacy, argues Judge Posne…