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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…
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Web 2.0 Expo: User Generated Content and Privacy
Attached is my power point presentation from the Web 2.0 Expo on user generated content and privacy web2.0expo.ppt…
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User Data = 2 x Video
Anyone still in doubt whether user data is valuable? Take a look at the news and learn: User data is worth the double of what Google paid for YouTube –– Googl…
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Must RFID-Legislation Be Technology Neutral?
It is a common mantra both of industry’s and consumers’ advocates that legislation related to radio frequency identification ("RFID") should be techno…
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the agents of normalcy and entrenchment
Interesting backlash to the O'Reilly's Blogger Code of Conduct. Nate Anderson on Ars Technica talking about "the tyranny of good intentions":…
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UK Internet Libel and Privacy Case Settles Before Judgement
The Guardian reports that an internet libel and invasion of privacy case based on allegations over posts made on the blogs of advertising group WPP has been set…
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(Cyber) Crime and Punishment - Worries about the Convention on Cybercrime
href="http://www.cioinsight.com/article2/0,1540,2100916,00.asp">My column in this month's CIO Insight describes a few of the big concerns I hav…
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Rules for the Revolution - featured in iTunes!
In January I started my first podcast series, Rules for the Revolution. The focus of the program is to answer general legal questions about the laws affecting…
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The Future Of Political Media: An Example And A Metaphor
This video may be our first glimpse of just how different, if not revolutionary, the 2008 presidential election may be. The ability of ordinary people to creat…
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Viacom v. YouTube: Uncertainty, Investment And Innovation
A lot has been said about Viacom's billion dollar lawsuit against YouTube and Google. In his editorial in last Sunday's New York Times, Larry Lessig po…