The Case for Rebooting the Network Neutrality Debate
The Internet uproar about network neutrality tends to come in waves. Right now we’re riding the crest of one. In the two weeks since Federal Communications Com…
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The Robot Car of Tomorrow May Just Be Programmed to Hit You
Suppose that an autonomous car is faced with a terrible decision to crash into one of two objects. It could swerve to the left and hit a Volvo sport utility veh…
The FCC Chairman’s Many Excuses
Cross-posted from Slate. A few years ago, Internet users, democracy activists, and entrepreneurs got wind of a proposed law, SOPA, that would have changed the…
Obama Policy on Zero Days Craps Out
Yesterday afternoon, the White House put out a statement describing its vulnerability disclosure policies: the contentious issue of whether and when government…
The Changing Attitudes Towards Cyber Gender Harassment: Anonymous as a Guide?
In 2007 technologist Kathy Sierra faced graphic rape and death threats on her blog Creating Passionate Users and in her email inbox. Around the same time group…
The FCC’s New Net Neutrality Proposal Is Even Worse Than You Think
In 2008 and 2012, President Obama campaigned on the incredibly popular idea of network neutrality—a law that would forbid phone and cable companies from changin…
How Technology Broke Privacy
One of the greatest challenges of living in the future is that it mostly looks just like the present. We have self-driving cars, commercial spaceflight, powerfu…
Eternal vigilance is a solvable technology problem: A proposal for streamlined privacy alerts
Consider three recent news articles about online privacy: Google+ added a new feature that shows view counts on everything you post, including your photos. It’…
Debunking the First Amendment Myths Surrounding Revenge Porn Laws
Disclosing someone’s nude image in violation of trust and confidence (often known as nonconsensual pornography or revenge porn) is a destructive invasion of pri…
Protecting Sexual Privacy with Law
Technological change is at the heart of much information privacy law. Recall privacy law’s beginning. In 1890, Samuel Warren and Louis Brandeis, then law partne…
Yes, Net Neutrality Is A Solution To An Existing Problem
While AT&T, Comcast, and Verizon have argued -- with incredible message discipline -- that network neutrality is "a solution in search of a problem,&qu…
5 Key Quotes from the FTC v. Wyndham Decision on Data Security
Cross-posted from LinkedIn. This post was co-authored by Professor Daniel Solove. The long-awaited federal district court opinion in FTC v. Wyndham was finall…