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Why Privacy Matters
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Surveillance, Scale, and Standing
Fourth Amendment jurisprudence has always had a contentious relationship with innovation. From wiretapping pay phones to GPS units, advancing technology has con…
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FISA Amendments Act Is Way Worse for Privacy Than Title III
Advocates for renewal of the FISA Amendments Act (FAA) often argue that the statute poses no more harm to the privacy of innocent Americans than does the Wireta…
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FISA Amendments Act Misconceptions Fueled by Confusion in the Senate Committee Report
Taking a close look at the Senate Intelligence Committee report on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) Amendments Act (FAA) renewal helps explain w…
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Who owns a link? Google vs. European publishers...
Cross-posted from The Knockoff Economy. We have a new post up on the Freakonomics blog about the dispute between Google and a group of European newspapers. Th…
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The FISA Amendments Act Authorizes Warrantless Spying on Americans
Next week, the lame duck Congress will take up the issue of whether to extend the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) Amendments Act (FAA) of 2008. Th…
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Five Nonobvious Ways Seattle Is Wired
I recently moved from San Francisco to Seattle. Among my concerns were (a) weather, (b) Mexican food, and (c) the technology sector. There is a sea of clouds…
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Fair Use Prospers on Campus
Last week's decision in Authors Guild v. HathiTrust -- upholding the Mass Digitization Project (MPD) -- was a big victory for fair use. The MDP is a project…
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My Comments on BEREC’s Public Consultation on Network Neutrality and Quality of Service
(Cross-posted from netarchitecture.org) Earlier this summer, the Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications (BEREC) held a public consultation o…
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CIS Affiliates 2012-2014 Announced
We are happy to announce the new 2012-2014 CIS Affiliates. The new affiliates are the following: Affiliate ScholarsMarvin AmmoriPeter AsaroRyan CaloDanielle Ci…
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A Tool Without a Handle
This is a short essay to introduce three topics I’ll be exploring in various ways, including writing, talking, and reading: 1) How metaphor powerfully shapes t…
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On government access to communications data
The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals has recently decided in United States v. Skinner that police does not need a warrant to obtain GPS location data for mobile p…