"Implementing a pro-speech policy internationally has its own challenges because — even in the West — there is not a unified legal approach to protecting f…
With the horrifying attacks in Paris yesterday, we were witness, once again, to the remorseless brutality that can arise from extremist thinking that refuses to…
""Once the government says it has good reason to believe North Korea did it, then that is good reason to believe that the defendant did not do it unle…
"McGill University professor Shaheen Shariff, an expert on the legal and policy aspects of cyber-bullying, noted that the case comes to light after a wave…
Aaron Swartz died this month two years ago. On the evening of January 21, the American Bar Association White Collar Crime Committee is hosting an event about Aa…
We are happy to announce the new 2014-2016 CIS Affiliates. The new affiliates are the following:Affiliate ScholarsMarvin AmmoriAnnemarie BridyPeter AsaroRyan Ca…
In the previous blog, I noted that the logical next step in understanding “privacy as fairness” was to examine if it is possible to identify principles that wou…
When I first started working on mutual legal assistance treaties (MLATs), they were seen as the less glamorous, hard-working cousin of extradition treaties. An…
As Congress winds down for the holidays, it delivers yet another lump of coal for the American people. Contained in the 2015 Intelligence Authorization Act is…
""There's a common misconception that all speech is equally protected by the First Amendment," Hartzog said. "That's simply not true…
"“It’s part of what I think is going to be the next biggest fight that we see on surveillance as everyone starts to implement encryption,” said Jennifer Gr…
"‘'We usually think of freedom of speech as enhancing liberty, but this is speech that takes away someone else’s liberty,'’ said Danielle Citron, a…