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United States v. Buckner
Yesterday, Circuit Judge Diana Gribbon Motz issued an interesting opinion on behalf of a unanimous three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth…
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An Unpopular Position on Net Neutrality
I've already gone on record opposing "net neutrality" legislation, (see "What's Wrong With Net Neutrality," http://www.cioinsight.co…
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Happy Holidays...
Generally around this year, I receive a number of requests for financial support from charitable organizations, civil rights groups, and the educational institu…
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Search Law & Policy @ Haifa
Search is becoming an increasingly important topic in cyberlaw. After several sessions and conferences looking at the issue (including at CFP 2004, Yale Law Sch…
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FTC's application of disclosures to blogs, podcasts etc.
Jason Van Orden brought an issue about FTC rules as they apply to "affiliate marketing" to my attention today. He writes about an issue raised by Gary…
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Data Mining for Killers
One of the most challenging problems for national security is predicting and stopping terrorist attacks before they happen. The government proposes that data mi…
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"Fighting jihad in cyberspace"
This article from this month's Sydney Morning Herald describes the means by which terrorists have used the Internet to communciate and avoid detection, as w…
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Washington Post Poll and Cato Institute Report
As my biography notes, I am presently researching the alleged chilling effect of post-9/11 government security measures on the use of technology, principally th…
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Most blogged article on NYT today is a primary source document
Many people have been saying for a long time that one great benefit of publishing news online is that publishers are not constrained by page limits. Today, the…
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On the HP Debacle
In my column in CIO Insight this month, http://www.cioinsight.com/article2/0,1540,2059021,00.asp, I note that in addition to legal alternatives to getting the i…
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Participatory culture report
The Rise of Participation Culture reports and summarizes a number of trends and explains "why the Internet and a new wave of Web applications have been emb…
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youtube vs. google vs. revver (from Chris Pirillo)
This is too funny. I had to share it here. Check out Chris Pirillo's comparison of YouTube vs. GoogleVideo vs. Revver. When I do the comparison from my DSL…