SCOTUS & Cell Phone Searches: Digital is Different
Cross-posted from Just Security. Today, the Supreme Court unanimously invalidated warrantless searches of cell phones incident to arrest in Riley v. California…
Other Writing
Are General Threats of Violence Against Groups Punishable?
Cross-posted from Forbes. Under the name “Foss Dark,” University of Washington student Keshav Bhide wrote online: Everything Elliot did is perfectly justified…
New Ruling Shows the NSA Can’t Legally Justify Its Phone Spying Anymore
Cross-posted from Wired. The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals said no this week to tracking your movements using data from your cell phone without a warrant w…
John Oliver’s Hilarious Net Neutrality Piece Speaks the Truth
Cross-posted from Slate. Last Sunday, on John Oliver's new HBO show Last Week Tonight, the former Daily Show fixture introduced net neutrality to millions…
Lessons from the Elliot Rodger Attack: Taking Online Threats Seriously
Cross-posted from Forbes. To New York Times reporter Jennifer Medina, Professor Adam Winkler wisely remarked that although there isn’t an easy solution to mass…
Charges Against Chinese, and U.S. Policy on Hacking
Cross-posted from The New York Times Opinion Pages. To the Editor: Re “5 in China Army Face U.S. Charges of Cyberattacks” (front page, May 20): On Monday, fe…
What the Debate About Internet Fast Lanes Is Missing
Cross-posted from Slate. Last Thursday, the FCC proposed authorizing Verizon to make an exclusive deal with MSNBC making it the exclusive premium news provider…
The Right Response to the “Right to Delete”
Cross-posted from Recode.net. Co-authored by Omer Tene and Jules Polonetsky. Last week’s decision by the European Court of Justice, requiring Google to delete…
Google Can’t Forget You, But It Should Make You Hard to Find
Cross-posted from Wired. Co-authored with Evan Selinger. As soon as news spread that the European Court of Justice now requires search engines like Google to…
Saving Privacy
Reed Hundt proposes democratic action in response to our government’s secret infrastructure for monitoring and controlling modern communications. “Citizens,” he…
Saving Privacy
Reed Hundt calls for alternatives to framing surveillance issues in terms of privacy versus security, but the hard fact is that we cannot avoid tradeoffs. We ha…
Snapchat and FTC Privacy and Security Consent Orders
Cross-posted from LinkedIn. Co-authored with Daniel Solove. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) recently entered into a consent order with the media service Sn…