Catherine Crump writes for San Francisco Chronicle, June 1, 2016
Just strapping cameras to police officers, however, won’t solve anything. The commission’s rules are a reasonable starting point, but it must monitor deployment closely and be prepared to shift course if the program falters.
Steven Davidoff Solomon writes for The New York Times, May 31, 2016
Sumner Redstone’s failure to quickly remove Philippe P. Dauman as chief executive of Viacom may have been a misstep, a symptom of a man who is struggling with the predicament of ill health. To understand why Mr. Redstone may be acting too slowly, it is probably worth reflecting on what he might have done 20 years ago.
Steven Davidoff Solomon writes for The New York Times, May 31, 2016
By forcing everything onto the web, we lose the personal interaction. Everyone logs in and watches a preprogrammed set of questions and answers. And then everyone goes away. … It’s a modern world that is frightening in its disengagement.
Peter Menell interviewed by The Recorder (registration required) May 27, 2016
“Declaring code is not poetry,” he said. Menell said he expects the jury’s verdict to remain intact in the face of post-trial motions and a potential appeal. “I just think it is going to be very surprising to have this completely reversed in any sense,” Menell said.
Steven Davidoff Solomon writes for The New York Times, May 27, 2016
Any hostile bid must be paired with a bid to replace the target board. As the many hostile takeover deals out there show, though, sometimes this is not that easy.
Christopher Hoofnagle quoted in Mother Jones, May 26, 2016
“Privacy law in the U.S. is technology- and context-dependent,” Hoofnagle said. “As an example, the medical information you relay to your physician is very highly protected, but if you go to a medical website and search for ‘HIV’ or ‘abortion,’ that information is not protected at all.”
Pamela Samuelson quoted in The New York Times, May 26, 2016
The case could go to the Supreme Court, though it was unclear whether the court would rule definitively on copyright, said Pamela Samuelson. … “They don’t usually like to go against what the appeals court established,” she said.
Susan Gluss writes for The Mercury News, May 26, 2016
Young, college-aged, women, are you feeling the Bern? If so, this one’s for you. I’m voting for Hillary Clinton. Please hear me out. It’s important that women get this.
Stanley Lubman writes for The Wall Street Journal, May 25, 2016
The thrust of the new law is very clear: It is consistent with a vigorous neo-Maoist campaign launched by President Xi Jinping against foreign ideologies and other influences on Chinese social and political development, and is intended to strengthen control by the Chinese Communist Party over Chinese society.
Christopher Hoofnagle interviewed by Rewire, May 25, 2016
“The reality of this stuff is that no one’s asking what marketers will do with their information when they click, ‘I Agree,’ when an app asks if it can use their location,” Hoofnagle said. “If one consents to that tracking, and consents for it to be used for advertising purposes, that’s pretty much the end of the story.”