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The Lawyer Protecting Your First Amendment Rights
"When a federal civil rights case accusing a Yale professor of sexual misconduct landed on BuzzFeed reporter Katie Baker’s desk, the words that had dominat…
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Blocked and banned by social media: When is it censorship?
"Neil Richards, a law professor at Washington University School of Law in St. Louis, compared social networks to town squares of centuries past — an analog…
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Legislating Against Revenge Porn: The Constitutional Pitfalls
"Revenge porn is a relatively new, yet extremely contentious topic. The act of violating someone's privacy in this manner, exposing their most intimate…
A First Amendment For Social Platforms
The great 21st-century platforms — Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Snapchat, and the rest — have this year found themselves in the middle of the speech wars. Twitte…
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Facebook Fourth Estate? Two Questions Lawyers Should Answer
In defending Facebook against government scrutiny by invoking First Amendment rights, we’ve overlooked the legal consequences for CDA 230 and risk constitutiona…
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Apple May Use a First Amendment Defense in That FBI Case. And It Just Might Work
"“The human equivalent of the company signing code is basically saying, ‘We believe that this code is safe for you to run,'” says Jennifer Granick, dir…
Bloomberg Law Brief: Apple Invokes First Amendment
Bloomberg Law Brief with June Grasso. Andrea Matwyshyn, a law professor at Northeastern University, and Nate Cardozo, a lawyer at the Electronic Frontier Founda…
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Should Apple Help Customers Hide Personal Info From Government?
""Can you force Apple to design their product in a particular way and that also could have a speech component?" wondered Ryan Calo, an assistant…
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Apple's Best Arguments Against the U.S. Over iPhone Access
"Indeed, the act wasn’t meant to lead to new lawmaking, said Jeffrey Vagle, executive director of the Center for Technology, Innovation and Competition at…
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Apple-FBI Fight Asks: Is Code Protected as Free Speech?
""The signature is part of Apple’s security ecosystem; it’s a promise that Apple believes this code is safe for you to run," said Jennifer Granic…
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This is Apple's Most Likely Game Plan for Fighting The FBI
"Apple could argue that being required to create and provide specific computer code amounts to unlawful compelled speech, said Riana Pfefferkorn, a cryptog…
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Europe and U.S. have different approaches to protecting privacy of personal data
""Every developed country in the world has a general privacy law — except us," said Neil Richards, a law professor at Washington University in St…