On May 11, 2022, the Fifth Circuit reinstated Texas state law HB 20 which allows private parties to sue tech platforms with 50M+ MAUs for their censorship of user-generated content based on “the viewpoint of a user or another person”. On May 13, technology lobbying groups NetChoice and the Computer...
Somehow we went from mild interest in December when Microsoft challenged a search warrant over user data stored in Ireland to some kind of frenzy today when Chief US District Judge Loretta Preska ruled in the government’s favor. I know it doesn’t make good sound bites, but this is not a case of...
As reported here, on June 13, 2014, the Supreme Court of British Columbia ordered Google to block a website worldwide in Equustek Solutions Inc. v. Jack. Later, Google applied for leave to appeal the decision and for an order staying the enforcement of the order. On July 23, 2014, the Court of...
Recently, the United Sates Supreme Court decided American Broadcasting Cos. v Aereo, holding that “Aereo publicly performs copyrighted works, in violation of the Copyright Act’s Transmit Clause, when it sells its subscribers a technologically complex service that allows them to watch television...
A few days ago, the Supreme Court of British Columbia issued an order requiring Google to remove websites from its worldwide index in Equustek Solutions Inc. v. Jack. The dispute involved links to the website of a company that had been found to have stolen trade secrets from a competitor and used...
Today the Fourth Circuit refrained from deciding the first legal challenge to government seizure of the master encryption keys that secure our communications with web sites and email servers. Nevertheless, the Court upheld contempt of court sanctions, because of the Lavabit owner’s foot dragging...
If US law enforcement officers want to access your private emails, they need to follow the requirements in the Electronic Communications Privacy Act. ECPA is an old and imperfect piece of legislation. Industry and civil society have long been pushing to update ECPA so that it is “technology...
The next meeting of the Stanford Intermediary Liability Lab (SILLab) will take place on Friday, February 14 at 11am in Room B13 at Stanford Law School.
Professor Dan Svantesson from Bond University in Australia will join us for an informal discussion about recent intermediary liability updates in...
The first meeting of the Stanford Intermediary Liability Lab (SILLab) will take place on Thursday, November 21 at 4pm in room Neukom 104 at Stanford Law School.
The SILLab is a project of the new intermediary liability focus area of the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School, whose...
Over at Just Security, I have a new post looking at the legal issues and new amici briefs in the Lavabit case. The case is really important because the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals is in the process of deciding the first legal challenge to government seizure of the master encryption keys that...