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Does The Fourth Amendment Have A Posse (Comitatus)?
Earlier this month, U.S. News & World Report ran the following headline: "Court Upholds Domestic Drone Use In Arrest Of American Citizen." The ar…
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Help Drones Invade SXSW
If you read this blog, chances are you're aware of SXSW, a unique festival exploring music, film, and emerging technology. Recent years have seen one or tw…
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NYC High School Prohibits Electronic Devices.
Apparently cell phones are prohibited at Norman Thomas High School in Manhattan. Rising to the opportunity, the Pure Loyalty Mobile Device Storage truck, locate…
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UPDATED: Sixth Circuit Cell Tracking Case Travels Down the Wrong Road
Today the Sixth Circuit ruled in United States v. Skinner that police do not need a warrant to obtain GPS location data for mobile phones. Investigators obtai…
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How to build effective cyber defenses
From my opinion piece today on CNN: Top Obama administration officials have been pressing the U.S. Congress hard for legislation to improve network security fo…
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The Trouble with ID Cookies: Why Do Not Track Must Mean Do Not Collect
Co-authored with Jonathan Mayer. The debate over the meaning of Do Not Track has raged for well over a year now. The primary forum is the W3C Tracking Protecti…
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Report by the CIS Summer Research Interns on the Transportation Research Board’s 2012 Workshop on the Future of Road Vehicle Automation
Report by David Gobaud, Michael Stolte and Francesca Svarcas CIS summer research interns David Gobaud, Michael Stolte and Francesca Svarcas joined Resident Fel…
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Ninth Circuit Gives Government a Pass On Warrantless Wiretapping
Yesterday, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals dismissed a lawsuit against the U.S. Government by Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation, a now-defunct charity that fede…
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TVShack Extradition Case Tumbling as Seventh Circuit Holds Linking/Streaming is Lawful
Last week, the U.S. Department of Justice's (DOJ) criminal prosecution of British citizen Richard O'Dwyer for operating a site called TVShack hit what o…
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No Surprise, CIS Reliably Sides With Users
Last week a story appeared in Fortune magazine hypothesizing that Google and Facebook are using cy pres settlements of privacy class actions to improperly chann…
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The Industry of Good Feelings
Google's Sergey Brin and Eric Schmidt are on Twitter. Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg is on Google Plus. And Twitter's Jack Dorsey is on Facebook. Isn&#…
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A Self-Driving Crash Test
In honor of anyone who just took a bar exam, here's the wholly hypothetical scenario I used at last week's excellent multidiscliplinary workshop on road…