Andrew McLaughlin, until recently the Deputy Chief Technology Officer of the United States, is joining the Stanford Law School Center for Internet and Society a…
Privacy settings and other technological controls used to protect privacy have been justifiably criticized a bit lately. Danielle Citron recently blogged at Con…
Is it lawful for a car to drive itself? In the absence of any law to the contrary, it should well be. A new bill is working its way through the Nevada state leg…
Updated May 3, 2011 Updated April 21, 2011 The call for questions is now closed. Check back on May 2 when Anthony Falzone and Julie Ahrens will answer a selec…
Last week, Google Books suffered another legal attack in the form of a class action, this time in Israel. I have been reading through the complaint and the clas…
Few website users actually read or rely upon terms of use or privacy policies. Yet users regularly take advantage of and rely upon website design features like…
I am pleased to post Show #135, March 15, my interview with Prof. John Tehranian of Chapman University School of Law, author of Infringement Nation. John has w…
Joint post with Jonathan Mayer. Earlier today Mozilla announced support for Do Not Fool, a proposed mechanism for opting out of April Fools' pranks. We can…
Late last week FTC Commissioner Rosch penned a column in which he repeated a number of hackneyed criticisms of Do Not Track. Senators McCaskill and Pryor articu…
Stanford Center The FTC’s Do Not Track (DNT) proposal would essentially provide online users with a convenient universal opt-out of …. well, what exactly? Ad t…
Just when I thought that locally, if not nationally, we are flooded with law / technology conferences du jour, I realized the timeliness of yet another confab:…
An interesting case with big privacy implications looming: A Kentucky Court of Appeals holds you don’t need a person’s permission to tag them in a Facebook phot…