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State AG Threats To Craigslist Implicate Free Speech
This post is co-authored by Ryan Calo and CIS summer intern Joshua Auriemma. On Saturday Night Live’s classic segment “Really?!? With Seth & Amy,” two incr…
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Innovation and the Legal System
I haven't posted much the last few months as I finished the manuscript for a new book, "The Laws of Disruption,” which appears in October. Inc. magazin…
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WhatApp? Alpha (Preview)
A generous grant from the Rose Foundation has made it possible for the Center to develop WhatApp?, an expert and user-driven review website for software apps th…
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David Simon Goes to Washington
I believe “The Wire” was one of the best television series’ ever made, so I was greatly disappointed to learn the substance of David Simon’s recent testimony to…
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Does NAI’s Opt Out Tool Stop Consumer Tracking?
I heard a rumor that I hope isn’t true. Specifically, I heard that opting out of behavioral profiling may not stop advertising companies from tracking you as y…
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Print Journalism and the Embrace of Martyrdom
You know an industry is struggling when its establishment players start accusing everyone of stealing. It’s a familiar tale. Technology forces an industry to…
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The Dynamic Balance Between Free Speech and Privacy Interests
There have been a host of apocalyptic warnings in the blogosphere about the First Circuit’s recent decision holding that truth is not an absolute defense to a d…
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The True Danger Of The Internet: What Occurs To Us
The most interesting aspect of cyberspace is not what happens for a time to its visitors. It’s not the absence of regulation nor the presence of perfect regula…
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Scrutinizing The URAA
Two years ago, the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals broke new ground. It held the URAA's restoration of copyrights in public domain works departed from the &q…
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Accountability and Anonymity: Rethinking the Value of Anonymous Speech
This week, Harvard’s Cyberlaw Clinic filed an amicus brief with the Illinois Appellate Court in support of hefty procedural safeguards to protect the anonymity…
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Court Allows Invasion of Privacy Claim Against Tax Service Provider for Throwing Away Tax Returns in Public Dumpster
Author: José Mauro Vicki J. Pinero sued Jackson Hewitt Tax Service Inc. (“Jackson Hewitt”) for not complying with its own privacy policy and dumping her tax re…
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Privacy And Free Speech (ACLU No. Cal. Primer)
The ACLU of Northern California has published a primer (PDF) on the advantages to businesses of good privacy and free speech practices. The primer assembles ma…