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By Li Wang – Edited by Henry Thomas California DMV Discuss Rules on Autonomous Vehicles The California Department of Motor Vehicles discussed tentative rules to regulate autonomous vehicles. As Fortune...
View ArticleThe EFF Challenges the DMCA Anti-Circumvention Provision: A First Amendment...
By Priyanka Nawathe – Edited by Kayla Haran 17 U.S.C § 1201 – The Anti-Circumvention Provision Electronic Frontier Foundation Complaint In 1998, Congress enacted 17 U.S.C § 1201, better known as the...
View ArticleACLU Challenges Constitutionality of CFAA Provision That Threatens Online...
By Danielle Kehl – Edited By Kayla Haran The American Civil Liberties Union (“ACLU”) announced in June that it is challenging the constitutionality of certain provisions of the Computer Fraud and Abuse...
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By Frederick Ding — Edited by Ken Winterbottom Supreme Court grants certiorari to Samsung on design patent damages In December 2015, Samsung paid $548 million to Apple after a jury in 2012 found...
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By Patrick Gallagher – Edited by Ken Winterbottom TOR Project Head Alleges FBI Paid Carnegie Mellon for Hack in Connection with Silk Road 2.0 Investigation Roger Dingledine, director of the TOR...
View ArticleSony’s $8 Million Hacking Settlement
By Ann Kristin Glenster — Edited by Ariane Moss Text of Settlement The Sony film “The Interview” was meant to take the studio laughing all the way to the top of the box office. But when an anonymous...
View ArticleData Breach Victims, Rejoice: Seventh Circuit Finds that Threat of Injury is...
Data Breach Victims, Rejoice: Seventh Circuit Finds that Threat of Injury is Sufficient for Article III Standing in Data Breach Class Actions By Brittany Doyle – Edited by Ariane Moss Last Monday, the...
View ArticleDOJ Indicts Nine for Zeus Malware Theft From Online Bank Accounts
By Emma Winer – Edited by Sheri Pan Photo By: Images Money – CC BY 2.0 United States v. Penchukov, No. 11-03074 (D. Neb. July 13, 2012) First Superseding Indictment Complaint On April 11, 2014, the...
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By Emma Winer Third Circuit Vacates Hacker Conviction for Improper Venue The United States Court of the Appeals for the Third Circuit vacated the conviction and sentence of Andrew “weev” Auernheimer on...
View ArticleHacktivist Jeremy Hammond Sentenced to Ten Years in Prison
By Mark Verstraete – Edited by Thuy Nguyen Press Release, U.S. Attorney’s Office, Southern District of New York (Nov. 15, 2013) Photo By: goblinbox_(queen_of_ad_hoc_bento) – CC BY 2.0 On Friday,...
View ArticleEx Parte TROs — Exceptional, Unless You’re A “Hacker”
Battelle Energy Alliance LLC v. Southfork Sec. Inc. By Corey Omer — Edited by Abhilasha Nautiyal Battelle Energy Alliance LLC v. Southfork Sec. Inc., No. 4:13-cv-00442-BLW (D. Idaho Oct. 15, 2013)....
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By Anne Woodworth UK Court Allows Safari Users to Sue Google over Privacy Settings Google lost a bid in the UK Court of Appeals to stop Safari users from suing the company over bypassed privacy...
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By Ken Winterbottom Judicial Watch Sues to Reveal Clinton Emails Conservative political watchdog group Judicial Watch filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of State last Wednesday seeking to...
View ArticleSilk Road 2.0 Takedown Indicates Law Enforcement May Have Developed a Method...
Photo By: archie4oz – CC BY 2.0 By Steven Wilfong — Edited by Travis West Benthall Complaint, U.S. v. Benthal (S.D.N.Y. October 29, 2014). Complaint hosted by the Department of Justice. Blake...
View ArticleSilk Road Founder Loses Argument That the FBI Illegally Hacked Servers to...
By Travis West — Edited by Mengyi Wang Order, United States v. Ulbricht, No. 14-cr-68 (S.D.N.Y. Oct. 10, 2014). Slip opinion The alleged Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht was denied the motion to...
View ArticleSnowden Documents Reveal NSA Attempts to Track Tor Users
By Travis West – Edited by Ashish Bakshi Photo By: Robson# – CC BY 2.0 The National Security Agency (“NSA”) has developed techniques to circumvent the anonymity offered by the Tor network. Tor is a...
View ArticleTowards Trans-Atlantic Interoperability: Scientific Research and Privacy...
Photo By: Nancy Pelosi – CC BY 2.0 Written By: Natalie Kim Edited By: Alex Shank Introduction Amidst heated debate and unprecedented lobbying in Brussels, European Union lawmakers are currently...
View ArticleInjunction Imposed in Volkswagen Car Hacking Case: Public Safety Favored Over...
By Jonathan Sapp – Edited by Alex Shank Photo By: Glen Edelson – CC BY 2.0 In June, a British high court ruled in favor of Volkswagen by enjoining Flavio Garcia from publishing an academic paper that...
View ArticleUnwanted Exposure: Civil and Criminal Liability for Revenge Porn Hosts and...
Written by: Susanna Lichter Edited by: Suzanne Van Arsdale Hollie Toups, the first named plaintiff in Toups v. GoDaddy, was harassed for weeks after nude pictures of her appeared on the website...
View ArticleGoogle Faces Potential Lawsuit in Connection with Celebrity Photo Leaks
By Amanda Liverzani – Edited by Mengyi Wang Demand Letter to Google, Inc. Celebrities impacted by the theft and distribution of personal images stored on Apple’s iCloud service may soon head to court...
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