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2012
- ost Book Club: Justifying IP -- Putting the Horse Before Descartes (1/30/2013)
By Rob Merges, PrawfsBlawg
- Google Explains How It Handles Police Requests For Users' Data (1/28/2013)
By Martin Kaste, NPR
- Aaron Swartz: Opening Access to Knowledge (1/25/2013)
By Pamela Samuelson, SFGate
- Instagram Says Users' Photos Won't Appear in Ads (12/18/2012)
By Barbara Ortutay, Associated Press
- New Council for Identity Protection to Examine Online Identity Issues (12/14/2012)
Digital ID News
- US Majority Says ‘Do Not Mail’ (12/14/2012)
By Susan Gluss, Futurity
- How can I protect my privacy online? (12/13/2012)
By Jack Schofield, The Guardian
- Why the Supreme Court Should Grant Certiorari in Retractable Technologies (12/5/2012)
By Peter Menell and Jonas Anderson, Patently-O
- Hacker Locates John McAfee Through Smartphone Tracks (12/4/2012)
The Washington Post
- That Junk Mail We Hate? The USPS Literally Can't Get Enough (12/4/2012)
By Brian O'Connell, The Street
- Your Online Attention, Bought in an Instant (11/17/2012)
By Natasha Singer, The New York Times
- More Companies Are Tracking Online Data, Study Finds (11/12/2012)
By Natasha Singer, The New York Times
- Microsoft, Motorola Set to Square Off in Court Over Patent Payments (11/10/2012)
By Janet I. Tu, The Seattle Times
- Report: Advertisers Undermining Do Not Track Plans (10/9/2012)
By Stewart Mitchell, PC Pro
- The Patent, Used as a Sword (10/7/2012)
By Charles Duhigg and Steve Lohr, The New York Times
- Study Finds Broad Wariness Over Online Tracking (10/8/2012)
By Somini Sengupta, The New York Times
- Study: Americans Don't Know What Ad Tracking Is, But They Sure Don't Like It (10/8/2012)
By Jeff Bercovici, Forbes
- Cell Phone Location Data Raises Protection/Privacy Issues (10/1/2012)
By Eve Troeh, Marketplace Tech
- Facebook Can ID Faces, but Using Them Grows Tricky (9/21/2012)
By Somini Sengupta and Kevin O'Brien, The New York Times
- Google's Digital Library Plan Hits Another Snag (9/18/2012)
By Laura Sydell, NPR
- Will Apple Attack Google Directly in Anti-Android Campaign? (9/4/2012)
By Lisa Shuchman, Corporate Counsel
- Online Tracking and Consumer “Choice” (8/30/2012)
By Jay Stanley, Free Future
- Consumers Likely to Feel Impact of Apple Defeat of Samsung (8/27/2012)
By Scott Martin, USA Today
- Samsung Case Puts Apple Closer to Google Fight (8/27/2012)
By Claire Cain Miller, The New York Times
- Apple-Samsung Verdict May Hurt Consumers (8/27/2012)
By James Temple, San Francisco Chronicle
- Apple vs Samsung: How Verdict Can Alter the Dynamics of Smartphone Industry (8/27/2012)
By Brian X. Chen, The Times of India
- Could a 'Defensive Patent License' Fix the U.S. Patent System? (8/27/2012)
By Meghin Delaney, Corporate Counsel
- Apple Gets More than $1 Billion in Suit (8/24/2012)
SFGate
- A Verdict That Alters an Industry (8/24/2012)
By Brian X. Chen, The New York Times
- Apple Beats Samsung: First Reactions (8/24/2012)
By Brian X. Chen, The New York Times
- Jury Awards $1 Billion to Apple in Samsung Patent Case (8/24/2012)
By Nick Wingfield, New York Times
- Behavioural Tracking: You’re Being Stalked Across the Web (8/7/2012)
By Chris Sorenson, Macleans
- Surveillance Tools at Issue in Lawsuit (7/15/2012)
By Chad Bray, The Wall Street Journal
- How Google Products Go from Creepy to Cool (7/13/2012)
By Elinor Mills, CNET News
- Consumers Say No to Mobile Ad Tactics (7/13/2012)
By Stewart Mitchell
- Mobile Phone Users Sorely Mistaken About How Much Privacy They Have (7/12/2012)
By Casey Johnston, Ars Technica
- Study Shows Americans Expect Mobile Phone Data Privacy (7/12/2012)
By Dieter Bohn, The Verge
- Reforming Copyright Is Possible (7/9/2012)
By Pamela Samuelson, The Chronicle of Higher Education
- Researchers Find Web Tracking Up, Privacy Down (7/5/2012)
By Ed Bott, ZDNet
- Berkeley Law's First Web Privacy Census Is Out and It's Troubling (6/27/2012)
By Violet Blue, cnet.com
- Web Privacy Census Shows Tracking Pervasive (6/26/2012)
by James Temple, San Francisco Chronicle
- UC Berkeley Web Census Shows That Internet Users Are Constantly Tracked (6/26/2012)
By Sohan Shah, The Daily Californian
- Expert: More Transparency Needed To See True Scope of Identity Theft (6/23/2012)
By Lee Rood, The Des Moines Register
- Should We Fear Children Accessing Facebook? (6/21/2012)
By Jason Schultz, DMLcentral
- Berkeley Law Professors Propose 'Tactical Disarmament' Agreement for Patent Suits (6/13/2012)
The Verge
- "Defensive Patent License" Created to Protect Innovators from Trolls (6/12/2012)
By Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica
- Patent Granted to Encourage Purchase of Digital Textbooks (6/11/2012)
By Cyrus Farivar, Ars Technica
- Few Privacy Regulations Inhibit Facebook (6/13/2012)
Technology Review
- Facebook May Let Kids Under 13 Join With Parent's Help (6/5/2012)
By Roger Yu, USA TODAY
- Web Privacy Measurement: Genesis of a Community (6/4/2012)
33 Bits of Entropy
- White House Summit on Botnet Combat Held (5/31/2012)
Marketplace.org
- How Does Fair Use Fit Into The Critique Of Copyright? (5/18/2012)
Techdirt
- Email, Companies and Social Norms (5/7/2012)
ACLU
- Dispatch investigation | Credit scars (5/6/2012)
The Columbus Dispatch
- More CORI Reforms Go Into Effect In Mass (5/4/2012)
wbur.org
- U.S. expert Samuelson: "ACTA should concern us all" (5/3/2012)
derStandard.at
- A Dirty Debut (5/3/2012)
By Emily Yoffe, Slate
- Adapt laws to allay mobile payments privacy fears - Berkeley researchers (5/3/2012)
Finextra
- Revived Google Books case chugs onwards (5/3/2012)
paidContent
- Suits Against IP Firms Raise "Fair Use" Questions (4/30/2012)
InsideCounsel
- The New Pay Phone and What It Knows About You (4/30/2012)
By Somini Sengupta, The New York Times
- A Universal Digital Library is Within Reach (5/1/2012)
By Pamela Samuelson, Los Angeles Times
- 'Useful Overstatement': Europe's Privacy Chief, Welcoming Trans-Atlantic Policy Thaw, Runs Into U.S. Resistance to 'Right to Be Forgotten' (4/30/2012)
By Louis Trager, Washington Internet Daily
- Law School Symposium Seeks Path for Digitization of Orphan Works (4/27/2012)
By Carol Oberdorfer, Bloomberg BNA
- What Do Authors Fear from "Orphan Works" Licensing Proposals? (4/26/2012)
By Edward Hasbrouck, The Practical Nomad
- European Regulator Warns Silicon Valley About Privacy (4/26/2012)
The New York Times
- Berkeley Research: Americans' Hostility to Data Gathering in Mobile Payments Said to Call for Ban on Personal-Information Requests (4/26/2012)
By Louis Trager, Washington Internet Daily
- Why You Should Care About and Defend Your Privacy (4/25/2012)
By Alan Henry, Lifehacker
- International Battle: Copyright Libertarians Apply ACTA Lessons Toward Tying Up USTR's Efforts for Trans-Pacific Partnership (4/24/2012)
By Louis Trager, Washington Internet Daily
- Balancing Act: Cyber-Spying Becomes a Business Tool (4/24/2012)
By Cindy Krischer Goodman, The Kansas City Star
- Keeping It Simple, or How to Solve the Berne Problem, Part 2 (4/20/2012)
By Kevin Smith, Scholarly Communications @ Duke
- How to Solve the Berne Problem, Part 1 (4/18/2012)
By Kevin Smith, Scholarly Communications @ Duke
- Twitter Pledges to Limit Use of Patents in Lawsuits (4/17/2012)
Los Angeles Times
- …And the Food Was Good (4/17/2012)
By Carrie Russell, District Dispatch
- CEOs of Oracle, Google square off in court over Java (4/17/2012)
Los Angeles Times
- Legal Hackathon Challenges Lawyers To Think Like Hackers (4/17/2012)
Huffington Post
- Going Big: Copyright Office Chief Promises to Have Orphan, Library Proposals Ready for New Congress (4/16/2012)
By Louis Trager, Washington Internet Daily
- Copyright Office Chief Promises to Have Orphan, Library Proposals Ready for New Congress (4/16/2012)
By Louis Trager, Washington Internet Daily
- Serving a Public that Knows How to Copy: Orphan Works and Mass Digitization (4/14/2012)
By Peter Brantley, Publishers Weekly
- Using Unlicensed Works: Libraries Wary, Content Owners Supportive of New Run at Orphan-Works Legislation (4/13/2012)
By Louis Trager, Washington Internet Daily
- Perils of pay for play (3/30/2012)
The Deal Pipeline
- The Sound of Silence: An End to Cyber Freedom (3/14/2012)
Berkeley Political Review
- Le troppe tutele agevolano i furbi negli Usa s’indaga sulla ricchezza (3/14/2012)
Mercoledi
- ISRAEL21c and UC-Berkeley explore Israeli high-tech (3/4/2012)
ISRAEL21c
- Privacy Firsts at Berkeley Law (2/26/2012)
San Francisco Chronicle
- Google's tracking sets off another privacy debate (2/18/2012)
San Francisco Chronicle
- Report: Google, others circumvent Safari privacy settings (2/17/2012)
Seattle Pi
- Google-Motorola deal likely but scrutiny to last (2/9/2012)
Politico
- Article with headshot 12859 (2/9/2012)
Google-Motorola Deal Likely but Scrutiny to Last
- CSU, UC crack down on class note sharing (2/3/2012)
acb7news.com
- California universities make new moves in fight on notes (2/2/2012)
Sacramento Bee
- The pre-teen Facebook dilemma (1/30/2012)
Tribune Review
- Privacy policies that don't work - and some that might (1/30/2012)
The Age
- Why privacy policies don't work - and what might (1/29/2012)
San Francisco Chronicle
- Online privacy battle brings gains, setbacks (1/27/2012)
San Francisco Chronicle
- Silicon Wadi: Israeli high-tech explored at Berkeley conference (1/26/2012)
Jweekly.com
- Commentary: Deeper lines drawn on data privacy (1/26/2012)
Houston Chronicle
- USPTO Issues Report on Prior User Rights (1/17/2012)
Patent Docs
- PII 2.0 (1/16/2012)
TAP
- Google Ngram and “Information Privacy” (1/9/2012)
Blogger
- California group creates complaint center for online privacy issues (1/8/2012)
San Jose Mercury News
- Even Without Legislation, Privacy Will Be a Hot Issue in 2012 (1/5/2012)
National Journal