This blog moves from discussion of cases of justified and widely supported regulation to examine current topics that are more complex and more hotly contested.…
Cross-posted from Slate. This essay is excerpted from Hate Crimes in Cyberspace, by Danielle Citron, published by Harvard University Press. “Jane” allowed her…
"“People are starting to be sensitized that there is a right way and a wrong way to do data security,” said Jennifer Granick, director of civil liberties a…
Facebook's announcement — establishing guidelines, review processes, training and enhanced transparency for research projects — marks another milestone in t…
"“This is a company whose lifeblood is consumer data. So mistrust by the public, were it to reach too critical a point, would pose an existential threat to…
"“We have a much higher standard in the U.S. when it comes to what constitutes threatening speech,” Citron explained. And even if a Twitter threat or a fri…
"“Generally speaking, tort law frowns on self-help and that includes drones,” says Ryan Calo, a robotics and cyber-law scholar at the University of Washing…
Listen to the full piece at Marketplace.org. "Now Neustar might lose the contract to Ericsson, which is based in Sweden. Neustar says this would be bad fo…
"Jennifer Granick, the director of civil liberties at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society, said recently. “When it comes to privacy, the United St…
"Richard Salgado, director of law enforcement and information security at the search giant, notes that several countries have responded to the Snowden reve…
"“You have to prove this business model, the whole business model, is ‘We’re helping you commit a crime,’ ” said Danielle Citron, a University of Maryland…
"“It’s really the interior audio that triggers various wiretap laws,” says Ryan Calo of the University of Washington School of Law. “But not if the owner w…