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November 2, 2009
Google's desire to scan old books has critics casting it as Goliath

November 2, 2009
New online law journal created by University of Miami law professor

October 31, 2009
The Global Antitrust Battle Over Google's Library

October 28, 2009
In re Bilski - Let us get back to work

October 26, 2009
Online Data Present A Privacy Minefield

October 26, 2009
Judge Urged To Not Restrict Comments on Google Settlement

October 26, 2009
EPO style oppositions would bring substantial benefits to the US, report claims

October 23, 2009
FTC, drugstores sue Solvay over delay in generic AndroGel

October 22, 2009
Nokia sues Apple for patent infringement

October 20, 2009
Research Roundup

October 16, 2009
Balancing Innovation and Access: Patent Challenges Tip the Scales

October 15, 2009
CA Computer Scientists Charge U.S. EAC Misused Security Findings from Landmark E-Voting Study

October 13, 2009
Google Books Is Not a Library

October 7, 2009
Google to Revise a Book Pact by Nov. 9

October 1, 2009
Editorial: The Google Wars

September 30, 2009
Ad Tracking Widely Opposed, Study Says

September 29, 2009
Claim Construction: A Structured Framework

September 29, 2009
Two-Thirds of Americans Object to Online Tracking

September 24, 2009
Google Book Settlement 1.0 Is History

September 20, 2009
Patent Auctions Offer Protections to Inventors

September 16, 2009
Google Books Settlement: Taking the Long View

September 10, 2009
Feeling lucky? Enough to trust Google with UC's library holdings?

September 10, 2009
Academics, ProQuest, Networks Object to Google Settlement

September 9, 2009
The Case For Goliath

September 8, 2009
Google's Book Search

September 8, 2009
EU Officials Offer Tepid Praise for Google Books Search Deal

September 8, 2009
National Coalition of Authors Urge Rejection of Google Book Search Deal

September 8, 2009
Will Privacy Concerns Kill Google Books Settlement?

September 8, 2009
EFF, ACLU says Google Books will chill reading, speech

September 4, 2009
Google Book Privacy Policy: Good Start, Much More Needed

September 4, 2009
New Blog Alert: Cyberlaw Cases

September 4, 2009
Management skills required

September 2, 2009
Tech Influence Spending Unaffected By Recession

September 2, 2009
Google's Book Scanning Has Authors On Edge

August 29, 2009
More questions than answers on Google Books

August 28, 2009
The Single Best Question Asked at the Google Books Settlement Conference

August 28, 2009
Privacy Missing From Google Books Settlement

August 28, 2009
Fashion blogger's Google suit seen as weak

August 25, 2009
UC Berkeley Law Scholar Tells Google, 'I Don't Want The Money'

August 23, 2009
RIAA Copyright Crime vs Child Abduction

August 20, 2009
Is Google book deal a threat to privacy?

August 19, 2009
Google book project far from settled

August 19, 2009
Is $22,500 Per Song Unconstitutional?

August 19, 2009
Sites pulling sneaky Flash cookie-snoop

August 17, 2009
Flash Cookies Track Even Privacy-conscious Surfers, Study Finds

August 17, 2009
Many Sites Using Flash Cookies to Silently Track Users

August 17, 2009
LifeLock tries to fend off legal battles

August 15, 2009
How were Social Security numbers given away?

August 14, 2009
More Seek Privacy from Google Book Search Settlement

August 13, 2009
National Writers Union Opposes Google Book Settlement

August 12, 2009
Another Quarter of Triple-Digit Growth for E-Books

August 12, 2009
Flash Cookies Used to Track User Behavior

August 11, 2009
More Pushback Against the Google Book Search Settlement

August 11, 2009
Adobe Flash cookies pose privacy questions

August 10, 2009
The Audacity of the Google Book Search Settlement

August 10, 2009
You Deleted Your Cookies? Think Again

August 6, 2009
Shooter's online rants were like trees in forest

July 30, 2009
Ads Follow Web Users, and Get More Personal

July 30, 2009
BT: Creepy Or Perception

July 29, 2009
James Boyle On: Strategies For The Digital Age: Beyond Mocking the Clueless

July 28, 2009
Organizations Urge Google To Ensure Privacy Protection in Book Search

July 27, 2009
ACLU, EFF Urge Google Books to do Better Job Keeping Users' Reading Private

July 24, 2009
Chilled Innovation v. Balanced Evolution: Reflecting on Indirect Copyright Liability in the Digital Age

July 24, 2009
Google Book Search Privacy Under Fire

July 23, 2009
Don't Let Google Close the Book on Reader Privacy!

July 23, 2009
Ex-FTC economist Baker joins FCC

July 17, 2009
A Decade Later, Amazon Finds Itself on Other Side of '1-Click' Patent Battle

July 15, 2009
Google Alert: Search Engine Links to Stolen Credit Cards from Russian Site

July 15, 2009
San Jose Family Finds Credit Card Info Online

July 14, 2009
Inequitable punishment

July 8, 2009
Briefs: Live Nation, Joel Tenenbaum, Spotify

July 6, 2009
Social Security Numbers Deduced From Public Data

July 6, 2009
Social Security Numbers Are Easy to Guess

July 5, 2009
Google Book Search Settlement Inquiry Announced

July 5, 2009
Mayor Hickenlooper wants database to help track kids' trends

July 2, 2009
DOJ Officially Opens Investigation Into Google Book Search

June 26, 2009
Michael Jackson, RIP, FAQ

June 22, 2009
Will File-Sharing Case Spawn a Copyright Reform Movement?

June 21, 2009
What's next for Jammie Thomas-Rasset?

June 18, 2009
American to lead U.N. agency's patent division

June 18, 2009
Record Labels' $1.9 Million Win in Thomas Retrial Constitutional?

June 16, 2009
Google urged to beef up Gmail security

June 11, 2009
How Facebook and Twitter Are Changing Data Privacy Rules

June 11, 2009
Mommy blogger family photo swiped, used for Czech grocery store ad

June 10, 2009
Reports: DOJ turns up the heat on Google's book deal

June 4, 2009
Judge Tosses Warrantless Wiretap Cases

June 2, 2009
Google Is Top Tracker of Surfers in Study

May 21, 2009
FTC Chairman Appoints Willard Tom as General Counsel and Announces Four Other Senior Appointments

May 15, 2009
Consumers Left in the Dark on Net Privacy

May 11, 2009
Google's book scanning faces scrutiny

May 1, 2009
Google in dispute over book project

April 30, 2009
Manufacturing Outrage

April 30, 2009
Urging Global Access for Medical Breakthroughs

April 29, 2009
Judge delays Google books hearing

April 20, 2009
Google Books Rival Objects to Settlement

April 17, 2009
Opposition to Google Books Settlement Jells

April 17, 2009
Legally Speaking: The Dead Souls of the Google Booksearch Settlement

April 12, 2009
Profs protest massive P2P damage awards

April 8, 2009
To noted lawyer, it's an open and shout case

April 3, 2009
Google's Plan for Out-of-Print Books Is Challenged

March 18, 2009
Cuomo Wins Ruling to Name Merrill Bonus Recipients

March 11, 2009
Advertisers Get a Trove of Clues in Smartphones

March 9, 2009
Do Breach Notification Laws Work?

March 9, 2009
Cali Law Interns Find Career Options in D.C.

March 6, 2009
California Looks to Expand Data Breach Notification Law

March 6, 2009
Lawmaker: Consumers need details in data breach warnings

March 1, 2009
Amend telecommunications surveillance laws

February 25, 2009
FCC to Telecoms: Explain Privacy Protection or Pay Up

February 25, 2009
Top UC Law Schools Launch Collaborative Field Placement Program in Washington, D.C.

February 22, 2009
Google Tracker can show where you are

February 20, 2009
Too Much Information? Critics Decry Sites That Mine Public Data

February 18, 2009
FTC Announces Third in Series of Hearings on Evolving Intellectual Property Marketplace

February 16, 2009
EFF Raises Privacy Concerns with Google Latitude

February 16, 2009
Google Tracker Appeals to Facebook Crowd, Spurs Privacy Worries

February 13, 2009
New guidelines for tracking consumers online

February 12, 2009
Campaigning for patent reform

February 12, 2009
Privacy groups slam new rules

February 12, 2009
Privacy Advocates: FTC's BT Guidelines Not Sufficient

February 12, 2009
FTC: No Privacy Laws For BT

February 10, 2009
Death Threats Follow Web Map of Donors

February 10, 2009
Public Greets Massive Data Breach With Collective Yawn

February 9, 2009
Creative Commons Panel at Harvard Cyber Law

February 7, 2009
Prop 8 Donor Web Site Shows Disclosure Law Is 2-Edged Sword

January 27, 2009
Data Privacy Day's messages for Obama, consumers

January 20, 2009
The Bible

January 13, 2009
Future of Privacy Forum Issues Recommendations for the New Presidential Administration

November 26, 2008
Identity safeguards help

November 25, 2008
Who's Been Reading My Cell-phone Records?

November 21, 2008
A Wealth of Data, and Nobody in Charge

November 17, 2008
Barack Obama's Privacy Challenge

November 14, 2008
Q&A: Brad Simon, PlayFirst Inc.

October 29, 2008
GOOG, YHOO, MSFT Set Rules of Engagement for Iron-Fist Countries

September 28, 2008
Who Owns the Law? Arguments May Ensue

September 27, 2008
Sebastopol man puts code manuals online

September 26, 2008
Business Method Patents And The Potential For Inequitable Conduct Claims

September 9, 2008
Google Tightens Data Retention Policy - Again

September 3, 2008
Privacy policies don't protect privacy

September 3, 2008
A Digital Divide For Online Shoppers?

September 3, 2008
He's giving you access, one document at a time

August 28, 2008
Best Western forced to play defense on data breach disclosure

July 8, 2008
Visiting Google might compromise your privacy

July 8, 2008
'Red Flags Rules' for Identity Theft on the Way

July 6, 2008
Stimmen und Details zum umstrittenen Gerichtsurteil

July 4, 2008
Golpe judicial contra Google

July 4, 2008
Datenschutz-Seilzeihen um YouTube-Filme

July 4, 2008
Ochtendgloren: Google/Yahoo bezwaren

July 4, 2008
Google Told to Turn Over User Data of YouTube

June 30, 2008
Students Persuade Lender to Reduce Risks of Identity Theft, But Security Lapses Remain

June 28, 2008
U.S. and Europe Near Agreement on Private Data

June 25, 2008
Association for Computing Machinery's Flagship Magazine Launches New Editorial Scope and Format; Changes Reflect Need to Inform Today's Dynamic Computing Community

June 13, 2008
New Robert Barr Scholarship Honors BCLT's Executive Director

June 12, 2008
Privacy vs. Profit on the Internet

June 9, 2008
Leading Legal Scholar Questions Radical Measures to ''Streamline'' Music Licensing on the Internet

June 8, 2008
Report: Data Breach Disclosure Laws Don't Slow Down Identity Theft

June 4, 2008
Privacy Advocates Ask: 'What's Google Got to Hide?'

May 30, 2008
Google Seeks Dismissal Of Street View Lawsuit

May 23, 2008
The Digital Wisdom of Richard Sennett

May 18, 2008
My space

May 15, 2008
Most don't know personal data can be sold

May 9, 2008
FTC Airs Mobile Marketing's Dirty Laundry

April 23, 2008
Online Advertising Conference Recap

April 23, 2008
Google Re-Wows Investors With Ad Quality

April 21, 2008
Banks: Fess up

April 19, 2008
Tough cookies for Web surfers seeking privacy

March 2008
Environmentalists in Outer Space

March 17, 2008
Accounting for information

March 17, 2008
Conferees Debate Whether Patents Still Matter With Today's Technologies

March 12, 2008
Patent Filing: Is it a Predictor of Survival?

March 12, 2008
IP Litigation Insurance, Defensive Licensing Are Explored at U.C. Berkeley Conference

March 11, 2008
Every click you make, they'll be watching you

March 6, 2008
Entrepreneurial Companies and the Patent System

February 28, 2008
Banks, phone companies identity-theft targets

February 27, 2008
The Promise of Berkeley

February 27, 2008
Bank of America, HSBC Most Prone to I.D. Theft, Report Says - Updated

February 27, 2008
Ranking Corporate America on Identity Theft

February 15, 2008
Wearable Tracking Tags Test Privacy Boundaries at the U. of Washington

February 15, 2008
Bush battles to keep spy law

February 4, 2008
Mobblog: The New Servitudes

February 1, 2008
Up Against Big Brother

February 1, 2008
Microsoft, Yahoo! Await Antitrust Scrutiny

February 1, 2008
California Representative wants tougher breach, ID theft laws

January 16, 2008
H5 Appoints Former Oracle General Counsel Raymond L. Ocampo Jr. to Board of Directors

January 16, 2008
Justices Get Another Shot at Patent Law

January 15, 2008
Middle-aged guys seek reunion with the beloved wheels of their youth

December 17, 2007
How Sony BMG lost its mind and rootkitted its CDs -- prepublication law paper

December 16, 2007
Privacy laws need better controls, technology, panelists say

December 14, 2007
Innovations in Robotics and Automation: Focus IEEE & UC Berkeley

December 10, 2007
Sun Microsystems to Host Panel on Internet Privacy and the ''Network of You'' on December 12th

December 5, 2007
Facebook's Beacon just the tip of the privacy iceberg

December 4, 2007
Who's Tracking Your Web Movements?

December 3, 2007
Safeguarding Privacy on the Public Internet

November 30, 2007
Your Privacy and Facebook

November 19, 2007
Space property rights and the 3:10 to Yuma

November 7, 2007
Facebook Is Marketing Your Brand Preferences (With Your Permission)

November 6, 2007
Battling a new type of Identity Theft

November 3, 2007
Most Americans Unaware Their Online Moves Are Tracked All The Time

November 2, 2007
Most Consumers Clueless About Online Tracking

November 1, 2007
Worldwide: IP Strategy – More Than Meets The Eye

November 1, 2007
Most consumers clueless about online tracking, behavior profiling

October 14, 2007
Chris Hoofnagle on Privacy and Search Engines

October 5, 2007
Why the RIAA should have won (though the fine was too high)

September 27, 2007
Calculating the Costs of Cyber Crime

September 9, 2007
Why Security And Liberty Fit Hand In Glove

September 9, 2007
UN: Berkman Center Announces 07-08 Fellows

September 4, 2007
Steve Ranger's Notebook: Don't let sleeping data dogs lie

September 3, 2007
Data breach laws 'make companies serious about security'

August 13, 2007
Find Answers at the Crossroads of Privacy

August 1, 2007
Researchers recommend tougher post-election audits

July 24, 2007
New, Frightening Form of ID Theft

July 24, 2007
A DMCA Fix Needed To Eliminate Online Copyright Loophole

July 11, 2007
Closing the Loopholes on Data Theft

July 8, 2007
Form Of ID Theft Has Thieves Creating Fictional Personas

June 29, 2007
Final charges dropped in HP 'pretexting' case

June 19, 2007
Synthetic ID Theft Uses Social Security Numbers

May 31, 2007
Hershey Vs. Pot Dealer in Trademark Suit

May 29, 2007
Clintons Benefited from Public Company

April 9, 2007
U.S. Takes Chinese Trade Complaints to WTO

April 1, 2007
Who's guarding your data in the cybervault?

March 21, 2007
To Fight Identity Theft, a Call for Banks to Disclose All Incidents

March 19, 2007
Schools Tout Clinics for Real-World Legal Experience

March 15, 2007
Critics to Google: Privacy, please

March 9, 2007
Search For Digital Rights Middle Ground-Protecting Copyrights And Consumer Rights

February 28, 2007
Lawmakers get less combative on data-breach bills

February 24, 2007
Think Your Social Security Number Is Secure? Think Again

February 21, 2007
Complexity of Copyright Act's Licensing Regime Recurring Theme at Net Conference

February 9, 2007
Radio Waves-Can the definition of 'monopoly' be flexible?

January 29, 2007
How to protect your private information

January 24, 2007
Hillary: The Privacy Candidate?

January 21, 2007
Merges: Back to the Shadows, or Onward and Upward? Current Trends in Patent Law

January 15, 2007
Hollywood Asks YouTube: Friend or Foe?

December 22, 2006
Patents get harder to come by

December 8, 2006
Spying suit costs HP $14.5 million

December 8, 2006
Freeze! That security law may be unconstitutional

November 27, 2006
Software patent conference outlines problems, possible solutions

November 21, 2006
Justices hand victory to free speech online

November 16, 2006
ChoicePoint's Comeback Tour

November 15, 2006
Rising cost of data breaches fuel security spending

November 12, 2006
Keeping Your Enemies Close

November 8, 2006
Experts debate: Is DRM good or bad for consumers?

November 5, 2006
Counting on security

October 23, 2006
We're Google. So Sue Us.

October 18, 2006
What's Holding Up A Pretexting Law

October 12, 2006
Class action suit over ID theft tossed out

October 10, 2006
Delegates From China to Visit UC Berkeley for New Innovation and Intellectual Property Rights Program

October 09, 2006
YouTube may add to Google's copyright worries

October 06, 2006
Companies send clear message about e-mail

September 27, 2006
Smile, you're on culinary candid camera!

September 26, 2006
Starbucks sued over "unchecked ambition"

September 26, 2006
IBM putting patent apps online

September / October 2006
Private Eyes

September 19, 2006
Fuzzy Laws Come Into Play in the H.P. Pretexting Case

September 15, 2006
State's HP Case May Be Tough to Win

September 15, 2006
Judge seals files in MediaNews trial

September 13, 2006
Hewlett-Packard Under Scrutiny

September 12, 2006
Hewlett-Packard Chairman Steps Down Amid Media Leaks Scandal

June 03, 2006
Local officials support U.S. Plan to save Web data

May 15, 2006
Groups Cheer Top Court Ruling in EBay Case

April 12, 2006
Getting China Jazzed on Copyrights

 


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