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10th Circuit Reverses Golan: URAA Passes First Amendment Test
Last year, we won an important victory for our clients when the District Court held the URAA violates the First Amendment insofar as it suppresses parties'…
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Computers Freedom Privacy... And Robotics
ACM Computers Freedom Privacy is in its 20th year. This year was exciting to me in that robots entered the mix. My panel on the topic featured forecaster and…
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Abusive Customers
Jamie Smarr on the NYT City Room blog: "Let’s face it, folks. The customer is not always right. In fact, some are just plain old abusive, cheap and crass.…
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Once Again for the First Time: What is Net Neutality?
Not surprisingly, FCC Commissioners voted 3 to 2 yesterday to open a Notice of Inquiry on changing the classification of broadband Internet access from an “info…
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Dispute Resolution iPhone App
Mike Sherry in the Kansas City Business Journal, "In a marital spat? There’s an app for that..." "In a knock-down-drag-out fight with your signi…
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Facebook's Security Screening
UPDATE: Facebook explains the security procedure here. Apparently they only use photos if you have not set up another verification means. Also, I have confirmat…
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The Criminalization of E-Personation
I was interviewed yesterday for the local Fox affiliate on Cal. SB 1411, which criminalizes online impersonations (or “e-personation”) under certain circumstanc…
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ODR and Consumers 2010
Sporadic updates on this blog as of late, but that's due to some exciting developments in other places... Check out the cooperative blog on the UNCITRAL OD…
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Face for Radio
Check out my latest eBay adventure... filling in for Griff as the host of eBay Radio: http://www.ebroadcaststudios.com/jun8,2010.html Pretty rough, but it'…
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"Legally Defensible" Security and the (Surprisingly Lacking) Right to Privacy
I participated last week in a Techdirt webinar titled, “What IT needs to know about Law.” (You can read Dennis Yang’s summary here, or follow his link to wat…
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Congress Moves on Broadband Regulation--But to Where?
The announcement yesterday from key Senate Democrats of an effort to reform the Communications Act put me in a nostalgic mood. Here follows one of my longest ef…
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Should The Law Punish Robot Tasks Differently?
I attended a fascinating thesis defense today on the subject of human-robot interaction by Stanford PhD candidate Victoria Groom. HRI experiments apparently te…