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CISPA 2.0 Likely Stalled in Senate
According to a US News report, a spokesperson for the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation suggests that the Senate will not take up CI…
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CISPA 2.0 Clears The House: Outcome Hazy
As expected, CISPA 2.0 passed the House of Representatives yesterday and the various privacy protections sought through amendments were dropped. Although much…
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Pain Rays and Robot Swarms: The Radical New War Games the DOD Plays
Cross-posted from The Atlantic. In the year 2025, a rogue state--long suspected of developing biological weapons--now seems intent on using them against U.S. a…
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Automated Vehicles are Probably Legal in the United States
Cross posted from the Robotics and the Law blog. “One of the most significant obstacles to the proliferation of autonomous cars is the fact that they are illeg…
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"Brain Spyware"
As if we don’t have enough to worry about, now there’s spyware for your brain. Or, there could be. Researchers at Oxford, Geneva, and Berkeley have created a…
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Fair Use Project, International Documentary Association, MPAA, and Film Independent Ask Fourth Circuit to Recognize Creators’ Interest in Repurposing Copyrighted Material for Historical Use
Frederick Bouchat has been serially litigating against the NFL and the Baltimore Ravens organization for more than a decade. Bouchat continues to press his clai…
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Transparency, but what are we seeing?
Cross-posted from http://katewestmoreland.wordpress.com/ Now that Microsoft has come to the party and is publishing a regular transparency report, there is a m…
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Letter to Goodlatte Criticizes CFAA Anti-Reform Language
I am a signatory to a letter to Rep. Robert Goodlatte and other legislators critiquing draft legislation reportedly slated for consideration this month that wou…
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Here's How to Legalize Phone Unlocking
In the wake of a public petition to allow people to unlock their cellphones for use on the wireless network of their choice, both the White House and the Federa…
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Doctrinal Precedence Among the Hatch-Waxman Act, the Patent Act, and the Sherman Act
Crossposted from PatentlyO.org On March 25, 2013, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in Federal Trade Commission v. Watson Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a cas…
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Congressional Hearing Tomorrow on CFAA Reform
Tomorrow, the U.S. House Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing on reforming the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA). Before you start thinking, "it'…
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New Phone Unlocking Bill
Senator Klobuchar's bill to legalize phone unlocking would require the Federal Communications Commission to direct wireless providers to unlock mobile devic…