By Lauren Harriman In 1984, Congress was facing a rapidly changing technological landscape. The world wide web was not yet available at the consumer level, but Internet use was growing quickly among universities. Law enforcement officers felt unprepared to handle… Continue Reading
By Kennard Herfel Among the global gossamer of controversies concerning the NSA revelations brews a key case involving Ladar Levison, the founder of the encrypted email provider Lavabit. Levison created Lavabit soon after the Congress passed the Patriot Act to… Continue Reading
By Laura Whiteside Robert Morley, Professor at Washington University in St. Louis, recently filed a patent infringement claim against Jack Dorsey and Jim McKelvey, founders of Square, Inc. Square, a startup based in San Francisco, is responsible for the white… Continue Reading
By Noah Johnson Pinterest has filed a trademark infringement suit against a startup called Pintrips in the U.S. District Court for Northern California. Pintrips is a small travel-planning startup that launched in 2012. Pintrips provides travel-planning services, such as flight… Continue Reading
By Lauren Harriman California’s new eraser law lets minors remove their posts from websites. But in a time where everything anyone posts is a google search away from being uncovered, is Internet erasability really something we want to teach the… Continue Reading
By Emily Poole Google has just been hit with a €900,000 ($1.2 million USD) fine, the maximum amount possible for violation of Spain’s data protection law. Google was found guilty of three distinct violations: (1) collecting users’ data, (2) combining users’ data… Continue Reading
By Emily Poole The European Union (“EU”) is in the process of strengthening its online data privacy laws, the far-reaching effects of which will be felt by any U.S. company or organization operating in the EU. The latest move toward… Continue Reading
By Brandon Wiebe GoldieBlox, a toy company that generated buzz this week when its recent online ad went viral, has filed a lawsuit in federal court seeking a declaratory judgment that its parody of the Beastie Boys’ song “Girls” constitutes fair use.… Continue Reading
By Emily Poole Encrypted email provider Lavabit, founded by Ladar Levison, closed shop last August after being ordered to give the U.S. government the SSL keys to the entire Lavabit website. With the keys, the government—appearing to only be after… Continue Reading
By Emily Poole Aereo, a start-up that offers subscribers access to live or time-shifted broadcast television on Internet-connected devices for a monthly fee, is in the middle of legal battle that spans the nation. Rather than paying the broadcasters for… Continue Reading
