Your Laptop is NOT Private or Secure at US Customs

by | Case Law

  The Ninth Circuit has held that it is the right of the United States government to seize a digital device at a border crossing*, transport it to a secondary location, and retain the data from the device indefinitely until it can be accessed. It has been true...

Email Privacy Protected by 4th Amendment

by | Case Law

From the EFF Deeplinks blog, in the matter of US v. Warshak: As the Court held today, Given the fundamental similarities between email and traditional forms of communication [like postal mail and telephone calls], it would defy common sense to afford emails lesser...

Columbia Law Prof Tim Wu on Net Neutrality

by | Legal News

Still trying to get up to speed on the whole net neutrality situation? Check out the intro above for a recap of the basics — it ran during the last Engadget Show as part of our interview with Columbia law professor and noted net neutrality advocate Tim Wu. Then,...

Answer: No.

by | Social Media

Will social media kill e-mail? This posts mirrors what has always been my impression of people who think social media/twitter/FB are going to replace e-mail based upon the trending use of the sub-twenty-something set  – they don’t know what they’re...

The Irrelevance of the Traditional Media

by | Social Media

Zero Hedge recently had an entry on the complete irrelevance of traditional media in the modern world. I’m not certain if traditional/mainstream media is completely irrelevant (I love The Economist), however there are increasingly larger cracks in the...