What You Don't Say About Data Can Still Hurt You
Cross-posted from Forbes. Written by Woodrow Hartzog and Evan Selinger. Big data generates big myths. To help society set realistic expectations, the right ki…
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Canada needs a sweeping strategy to fight cyberbullying
Cross-posted from The Globe and Mail. This is Bullying Awareness Week across the country, and many Canadians are calling for concrete solutions to address the…
Protecting Journalism in the Digital Era
Cross-posted from Stanford Lawyer. Imagine that you are participating in a protest on a university campus. The campus police ask everyone to leave. Some prot…
Wrap Contracts Symposium, Part I: Ryan Calo
Cross-posted from ContractsProf Blog. This is the first in a series of posts on Nancy Kim's Wrap Contracts: Foundations and Ramifications (Oxford UP 2013).…
The FAA's Drone Privacy Plan: Actually Pretty Sensible
Cross-posted from Forbes. Thursday felt like drone day. The Federal Aviation Administration released both its roadmap (PDF) to integrate private drones into d…
How to Make Revenge Porn a Crime
During the course of a long-distance relationship, Holly Jacobs shared sexually explicit photos and videos with her ex-boyfriend. She trusted him to keep them p…
How to Copy Right
Cross-posted from Foreign Affairs. PATENT PROGRESS In their essay “Fake It Till You Make It” (July/August 2013), Kal Raustiala and Christopher Sprigman urged…
A Stronger ‘Online Eraser' Law Would be a Mistake
Excited teenagers – in other words normal teenagers – have never been famous for consistently wise decisions, nor should they be. Trial and error is a critical…
We’re About to Lose Net Neutrality — And the Internet as We Know It
Cross-posted from Wired Opinion. Net neutrality is a dead man walking. The execution date isn’t set, but it could be days, or months (at best). And since net n…
Why Is Facebook Putting Teens at Risk?
Cross-posted from Bloomberg View. When Facebook Inc. recently lifted its restriction on public posts by teenagers, some privacy scholars applauded the move as…
We All Go Down Together: NSA Programs Overseas Violate Americans’ Privacy, Yet Escape FISC, Congressional Oversight
Cross-posted from Just Security. Ongoing revelations show that significant NSA surveillance activities take place outside of either Foreign Intelligence Survei…
The Ethics of Autonomous Cars
Cross-posted from The Atlantic. If a small tree branch pokes out onto a highway and there’s no incoming traffic, we’d simply drift a little into the opposite l…