The Net Neutrality Battle Has Been Lost
Cross-posted from Slate. The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals just issued its long-awaited decision striking down the FCC’s network neutrality rule. This is the s…
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They're watching. How can that be a good thing?
Cross-posted from Stanford Magazine. WHAT IS IT ABOUT ROBOTS? Our fascination with these machines dates back centuries. The ancient Greeks built them. Robots h…
New Report Questions Value of Section 702 Warrantless Surveillance
Cross-posted from Just Security. Today over at the New America Foundation, researchers have published a paper examining the role of dragnet programs in the Uni…
Trade Promotion Authority Bill Falls Short of Ensuring Transparency and the Public Interest
Cross-posted from Infojustice.org. Contacts: Sean Flynn, American University Washington College of Law, 202-274-4157, sflynn@wcl.american.edu Margot Kaminski,…
Why Grandma Shouldn't Have Posted Instagram Pics On Facebook
Cross-posted from Forbes. A well-intentioned grandmother accidentally hurt her grandkids’ feelings. She took screenshots of their delightful Instagram photos a…
Just the Right Amount of Cyber Fear
Cross-posted from The Atlantic. If our leaders don’t even use email, can we trust them to make decisions about our brave new e-world? In a book released a few…
The Need to Be Open: U.S. Laws Are Killing the Future of Robotic
Cross-posted from Mashable. The next step in transformative technology is already here, and the United States runs the risk of getting left behind. The amount…
Prediction: Fourth Amendment Evolves in 2014
Cross-posted from Just Security. When should courts follow legal precedent and when should the law change? This is a debate that underlies this month’s contra…
The best week for privacy in a long time
Cross-posted from CNN. When President Barack Obama responded to this summer's torrent of disclosures about the National Security Agency by commissioning a…
NSA's Creative Interpretations Of Law Subvert Congress And The Rule Of Law
Cross-posted from Forbes. In the wake of today’s tremendously important ruling by the District Court for the District of Columbia that bulk collection of telep…
How the NSA Piggy-Backs on Third-Party Trackers
Cross-posted from Slate. By Edward Felten and Jonathan Mayer Snooping on the Internet is tricky. The network is diffuse, global, and packed with potential tar…
Mass Location Tracking: It’s Not Just For the NSA
Thanks to Edward Snowden we now understand that the NSA runs many dragnet surveillance programs, some of which target Americans. But a story yesterday from Wash…