Today, I moderated a panel at the Cybersecurity Workshop at Central European University on the role that information law will play in cybersecurity. (Thanks to Kate Coyer, Stefaan Verhulst, Monroe Price, and Roxana Radu for inviting me!) Here’s basically what I said:
Cybersecurity may be the issue that leads states to re-fight the old battle of [...]
I’m attending the Cybersecurity Workshop at Central European University in Budapest, Hungary. The workshop seeks to help researchers set an agenda for studying cybersecurity policy and issues. Tomorrow, I’m moderating a panel on the role that information law plays in cybersecurity, and I’ll post a precis of my talk here afterwards. There’s a great mix [...]
Over at Tim Bray’s Android Developers Blog, there is a fascinating post by Dan Morrill, the Open Source & Compatibility Program Manager for Android. (“Program Manager” is tech-speak; it generally means someone who tries to make sure that the trains run on time and that a given program / project stays on track to meeting [...]
Professor Richard Epstein (U. Chicago) and I have been debating Internet censorship, and the exchange is posted at the State Department’s America.gov site. This is a rematch of our Legal Affairs debate in 2006. I think the heart of the debate is Epstein’s position that there are universal moral norms that should govern (and, largely, [...]
An op-ed version of my article Cybersieves is available at The Legal Workshop. It’s a condensed, hopefully snappier version of the piece, and is intended for the general public in addition to cyberlaw geeks like me. Many thanks to Lee Davis and the Duke Law Journal staff for their excellent work!
On Friday, March 19, Brooklyn Law School hosts a symposium on data security and data privacy in the payment system. There’s a terrific lineup of speakers, including James Grimmelmann of NYLS, Chris Jay Hoofnagle of Berkeley, Sarah Jane Hughes from Indiana-Bloomington, Adam Levitin of Georgetown, Juliet Moringiello from Widener, Frank Pasquale of Seton Hall, and [...]
My friend Dave Levine, who teaches IP and Internet law at Elon University School of Law, has posted an episode of his cool podcast, Hearsay Culture, where he talks with me and Oliver Day (a Berkman friend who is a hacker) about how IP law gets in the way of software security research. Oliver and [...]
Paul Ohm has a terrific new paper out on SSRN, Broken Promises of Privacy: Responding to the Surprising Failure of Anonymization (forthcoming in UCLA Law Review). It discusses how statistical techniques have made it increasingly easy to re-identify anonymized data sets, and to apply that information to other identification problems (for example, taking information from [...]
The class action lawsuit against the Google Books program has receded from its former prominence in news reports, but there has still been a lot of activity. The parties retreated into seclusion to negotiate a settlement last fall and then, faced with objections from the Department of Justice, negotiated some more and reached a new [...]
An anonymous student at BLS has started a great blog, You Can Wordify Anything If You Just Verb It. It collects the more… interesting… things said by both profs and students. I’m already spending significant cycles trying to guess the provenance of some of these quotes. Given that certain of them mention Internet Law, I [...]