Hyperloop Law: Autonomy, Infrastructure, and Transportation Startups
In 2013, Elon Musk proposed an "open source transportation concept" of levitating vehicles zooming passengers through vacuum tubes at 760 miles an hou…
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WikiLeaks Publishes Files It Says Are Biggest Leak of Secret CIA Documents
"Tuesday’s document dump mirrors the one WikiLeaks carried out when it exposed cyber toolkits used by the National Security Agency, and frankly, is not tha…
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The Feds Would Rather Drop a Child Porn Case Than Give Up a Tor Exploit
"In United States v. Jay Michaud the indictment will be dismissed without prejudice, meaning that the DoJ can pick the case up again within the statute of…
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IBM Gives Up Out-Of-Office Email Patent EFF Called 'Stupid'
"Speaking by phone to Law360, Nazer said Thursday he believed the disclaimer was directly linked to his post given the timing, and the fact that IBM filed…
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IBM gets a patent on “out-of-office” e-mail messages—in 2017
"The "invention" represented in the '842 patent is starkly at odds with the real history of technology, accessible in this case via a basic G…
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Waymo's Uber Lawsuit May Be Start Of A Google Patent War
"“I’ve been warning that we could eventually see automated driving patent wars that rival the smartphone patent wars from several years ago,” Bryant Walker…
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Twitter to police abuse in major shift
""Twitter has been proceeding carefully and thoughtfully in thinking through and rolling out tools designed to help harassment victims," said Uni…
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Our Bots, Ourselves
"According to university law professors Woodrow Hartzog and Danielle Citron, “It is the first such complaint by the FTC that involved bots designed to acti…
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Checks and balances: an uncertain future for the intelligence sector
"According to Richard Forno, a professor at UMBC and the director of UMBC’s graduate cybersecurity program, “Politics should never interfere with intellige…
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Is Posting on Facebook a Fundamental Right?
"“That’s of importance to anyone who uses the internet and digital products and services,” says Neil Richards, a Washington University law professor who sp…
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The Startup That’s in Charge of the Biggest Private Satellite Fleet
"The higher resolution will likely raise privacy and security concerns, however, just as Google’s Street View did in its early days. Making public precise…
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ICANN Is Moving Toward Copyright Enforcement, Academic Says
"The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is on an “ambivalent drift” into online content regulation through its contractual facilit…