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Open Source and Privacy Can Co-exist and Thrive!
From ZDNet: "Google’s role in an open source world by ZDNet's Dana Blankenhorn -- Google proves you can scale an enormous company in a short time, shar…
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Doe Prevails: Motion to Unseal Seals Fuller's Fate
Cyberlaw Clinic client John Doe and his anonymous speech rights have prevailed in the fight against Global Adhesives company H.B. Fuller. Fuller has withdrawn…
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The Guardian's Readers' Editor on Why They Moderate Discussions
Siobhain Butterworth, the Guardian's Readers' Editor, recently wrote on Comment is Free that: "It has never been easier to become an author - the…
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Amicus filed in U.S. v. Andrus
Paul Ohm and I wrote an amicus brief in the 10th Circuit case of US v. Andrus, the opinion I wrote about in last week's Wired News column. In the case, the…
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Doe Wins Motion to Unseal, Bodes Well for Preservation of Anonymity
The Sixth District Court of Appeal in California has granted Cyberlaw Clinic client John Doe's motion to unseal records in H.B. Fuller v. Doe. In the trial…
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U.S. v. Andrus
My Wired News column today is Hack My Son's Computer, Please, a discussion of the Fourth Amendment opinion in U.S. v. Andrus (pdf), issued in April by the T…
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Digging the grave for next-generation DVD TPMs?
That a string of digits-and-letters receives the honor to be composed into a song is, I think, a noteworthy development. Sure, copyright law is about fostering…
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Prof. Michael Geist at CFP
Here's a quick live-blog of Prof. Michael Geist's dinner talk tonight at the Computers Freedom & Privacy conference in Montreal. Future of the Inte…
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Will Bioterror Fears Spawn Science Censorship?
Will Bioterror Fears Spawn Science Censorship? My latest Wired News column revisits an issue I wrote about in a law review article a few years ago for the Yale…
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Attorney advertising, ethical rules and the 1st amendment
Last week I moderated a panel at the Bar Association of San Francisco about the proposed California Rules of Professional Conduct 7.1-7.5 (governing attorney ad…
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US v. Heckenkamp
Last week, in United States v. Heckenkamp, the Ninth Circuit (correctly) ruled that students have a constitutionally protected reasonable expectation of privacy…
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Yahoo's Disgrace
Sadly, Yahoo is no stranger to morally questionable business decisions relating to their dealings with the Chinese government. Now, in the wake of the most r…