Cyberlaw

Cyberlaw, Department of Justice, Jury Duty, Military / Military Law, Technology, Trials

Finding an Impartial Jury For Bradley Manning Is Going to Be… Difficult

As the Bradley Manning court-martial continues stutter-stepping forward, the attorneys involved in the case struggle with jury selection.

Cyberlaw, Department of Justice, Military / Military Law

Court-Martial Begins for Bradley Manning; He Faces 22 Counts and Life in Prison

Bradley Manning, the American traitor or human rights champion depending on your perspective, was back in court yesterday. His court-martial officially began, and he now faces 22 serious charges that could carry a life sentence, if he is convicted. The 24-year-old Army intelligence analyst allegedly gave more than 700,000 classified documents to Julian Assange, the […]

Cyberlaw, Facebook, Sex, Sex Scandals, Sexual Harassment, Social Media, Social Networking Websites, Technology

Sex Offenders, Welcome to Facebook (Well, Kind Of)

Sex offenders are the easiest people to take away rights from. Even other criminals hate sex offenders. Their crimes are heinous, it’s unclear if recurring sex offenders can ever be “cured,” and if they ever get out of jail, even most progressives are happy to severely curtail their rights and freedoms. It’s tough to take […]

Cyberlaw, Google / Search Engines, Law Professors, Technology

Are Lawyers Officially No Longer Technophobic?

The first month of 2012 was a crazy one for internet law. The Stop Online Piracy Act gloriously crashed and burned, Apple is getting sued in China for naming rights to the iPad, and in America someone is suing to show that porn doesn’t deserve copyright protection. In the wake of all the hot debate […]

Cyberlaw, Department of Justice, Technology

SOPA Be Damned, DOJ Has Sent a Message to Internet Pirates. And the Internet Sent a Message Right Back

While the Internet was throwing itself a party for taking down the Stop Online Piracy Act, getting drunk off its own power and shooting pistols into the air like a Mexican fiesta, the Department of Justice was already throwing up a big middle finger to offshore rogue websites, or whatever they’re calling pirates now. Everyone’s favorite hacker collective, Anonymous, struck back in revenge almost immediately. The group launched massive denial of service attacks against every media and governmental website their deranged hive mind could think of….

Cyberlaw, Google / Search Engines, Social Networking Websites, Technology, Wikipedia

SOPA Protests Will Make Tomorrow Super Boring

Tomorrow is going to be the most boring day in the recent history of the Internet. For 24 hours — on January 18 — several high-profile websites will go dark, to protest the Stop Online Piracy Act. No one will be able to research potentially fake facts about their favorite celebrities, discover the newest nerdy […]

Cyberlaw, Intellectual Property, Technology, Trademarks

Under New Internet Rules, URLs Like AboveTheLaw.YourMom Will Soon Be Available

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers has been busy lately. First, the Southern California-based non-profit responsible for the Internet’s address system created a porn-only, top-level domain. And on January 12, ICANN will start allowing people to register top-level domains of whatever they want. .Com, .net, and .org — your days of tyranny are […]

Cyberlaw, Department of Justice, Laurence Tribe, Military / Military Law, Technology

The Soldier Accused of Leaking Military Cables to WikiLeaks Is in Court Right Now

The former military intelligence analyst accused of leaking hundreds of thousands of documents to WikiLeaks has spent the last four days in a Maryland military court, undergoing a hearing to determine whether or not his case will proceed to court-martial. For those new to the party, 24-year-old Bradley Manning is accused of committing the biggest […]

Cyberlaw, Facebook, Intellectual Property, Social Networking Websites, Technology, Trademarks

Model Who Says, ‘I’m Too Sexy For This Trademark’ Loses $81K Suit

The Internet may be infinite, but people still are constantly fighting over online real estate. It happens in the porn industry, and it happens to celebrities. Even Miami Dolphins cheerleaders have to fight for their right to party at their own website. The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida recently ruled in […]

Cyberlaw, Google / Search Engines, Technology, Twittering

New Piracy Bill Could Lead to National Censorship Nightmare

As we mentioned in yesterday’s Non-Sequiturs, congressional hearings for the proposed Stop Online Piracy Act began yesterday. People are really not happy about the bill. Google’s CEO called SOPA, as the bill is known for short, “draconian.” Time’s Techland blog ran the headline this morning, “SOPA Won’t Stop Online Piracy, Would Censor Everyone Else.” What […]

Conferences / Symposia, Cyberlaw, Duane Morris, Madonna, Pornography, Privacy, Technology

How Not to Screw Up on the Internet

Last week, Christopher Danzig went to the Computer Forensics Show in San Francisco. He sat in on one legal technology-related panel that was particularly entertaining and informative. What he heard underscored was the importance of maintaining a technology dialogue between legal and other parts of the business. It was also chance to hear some awesome war stories from a veteran partner at a major law firm….

Cyberlaw, Federal Government, Google / Search Engines, Privacy, Technology

If the Government Wants Your Email, It Gets Your Email

We’ve been talking a lot recently about the secretly authorized stuff our government does to us — like killing us, or molesting us at airports. Here’s another one for the list: digging through our emails or Twitter feeds or cell phone data, without probable cause, our permission, or our knowledge. How does the U.S. government circumvent basic probable cause and search warrant requirements when it wants electronic information? Let’s see….

Bad Ideas, Crime, Cyberlaw, Free Speech, Police, Technology

San Francisco Subway Shuts Off Cell Service, Hackers Get Angry

I rode BART into San Francisco on Monday for dinner. As our train approached the Embarcadero station, the driver came on the intercom. “We aren’t stopping at this station. Don’t want to drop you in the middle of a protest.” So my roommate and I got off a block later and backtracked. We encountered a […]

California, Crime, Cyberlaw, Facebook, Privacy, Social Networking Websites, Technology

Don’t Mess With Your Friend’s Facebook; It Might Be a Felony

When I was in college, it was not altogether uncommon for people to leave their laptops unattended with their Facebook accounts still logged in. It was not altogether uncommon for an enterprising prankster to creatively twiddle with said account. A little switch of sexual preference here, a mildly offensive profile picture there, and maybe a […]