A Quick Update: Apple, Privacy, and the All Writs Act of 1789
Here’s the latest in the encryption case we’ve been writing about in which the Justice Department is asking Magistrate Judge James Orenstein to order Apple to u…
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Notice and Takedown Under the GDPR: an Operational Overview
This is one of a series of posts about the pending EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), and its consequences for intermediaries and user speech online.…
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The GDPR’s Notice and Takedown Rules: Bad News for Free Expression, But Not Beyond Repair
Cross-posted to the Internet Policy Review News & Comments and Inforrm blogs. This is one of a series of posts about the pending EU General Data Protection…
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Salem witch gets protective order against warlock
"And, according to Professor Danielle Citron of the University of Maryland School of Law, he may have a good case. Citron, who specializes in First Amendm…
Push, Pull, and Spill: A Transdisciplinary Case Study in Municipal Open Government
Abstract: Cities hold considerable information, including details about the daily lives of residents and employees, maps of critical infrastructure, and record…
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The Accidental Victims of Online Harassment
"University of Maryland law professor Danielle Citron, who last year published a book called Hate Crimes in Cyberspace, says that when attacks on someone e…
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Dan Geer Keynote on “Intelligence” and His Remarkable Body of Work
Dan Geer – the Chief Information Security Officer at In-Q-Tel (the US Intelligence Community’s venture capital firm) and all-around-cyber-guru - recently gave a…
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The legal landscape of information security
"Some lawyers thrive on change and evolution, according to new Northeastern University School of Law professor Andrea Matwyshyn. She is a prime exam…
The All Writs Act, Software Licenses, and Why Judges Should Ask More Questions
Pending before federal magistrate judge James Orenstein is the government’s request for an order obligating Apple, Inc. to unlock an iPhone and thereby assist p…
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Faced with an iPhone they can’t unlock, cops again turn to Apple for help
"Outside legal scholars also noted that Apple has drawn the line between a locked iOS 7 device, which may technically be able to be opened, and fully encry…
Update on Apple’s Compelled-Decryption Case
Last week, we wrote about an order from a federal magistrate judge in New York that questioned the government’s ability, under an ancient federal law called the…
What is it that Homeland understands about international politics but that Robert Kagan simply doesn’t get?
Showtime’s hit show Homeland understands a key political dynamic that pundits and international relations scholars often fail to get. Global politics is less an…