Law Professor and Computer Fraud and Abuse Act expert Orin Kerr wrote today in his usual thorough and well-informed fashion about the legal claims in Aaron Swar…
Over the weekend, I learned that Aaron Swartz had taken his own life. I cried, and am still crying, for him, his family, for the close friends who loved him, a…
Notorious hacker "Weev" joins Hufftington Post after being found guilty on charges of breaching AT&T's security. Is his conviction a blow to f…
From Ashley Hurst's CIS Speaker Series talk on October 25, 2012. The extent to which internet intermediaries such as Facebook and Google should be liable f…
Stanford Center for Internet and Society Speakers Series Talk - Ashley Hurst - October 25, 2012 The extent to which internet intermediaries such as Facebook an…
CIS Affiliate Scholar Marvin Ammori and New America Senior Fellow Rebecca MacKinnon discuss Google's decision to restrict access to an anti-Islamic video th…
“It’s a little bit of censorship and a little bit of diplomacy in a difficult situation,” said Jennifer Granick, director of civil liberties for the Stanford La…
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…
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…
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…
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…
If Twitter were to turn over the user's identity at the first request, it could be liable for any mistake or potential invasion of privacy, according to Jen…