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Gotta Book – Supreme Court Rules that Generic Words Coupled With Domain Suffix May Have Trademark Protection
On June 30, the U.S. Supreme Court held that the company Booking.com could hold a valid federal trademark in the name “Booking.com” even though the term “booking” is a generic term for…
POST Haste – NYC Proposes Law to Require NYPD Disclose ALL Surveillance Techniques
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? In the wake of allegations that the Customs and Border Patrol was running surveillance drones over protest sites in Minnesota and other places, and that government agencies were collecting…
What A Tulsa BLM Protesters Arrest Tells Us About Computer Crime
This is not a political rant. I promise. Tulsa teacher Shelia Buck was arrested outside the President’s rally after campaign officials saw that she was wearing a t-shirt that said…
Qualified Impunity – Federal Appeals Court Rules
No Constitutional Right to Information Privacy from Police Disclosure of Sexual Assault Victim Information to the Press On June 15, 2020, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to take up the…
Federal Court Rules that Location Privacy Rights Depend on Technology Used to Invade It
Do you have a reasonable expectation of privacy in your whereabouts outside such that the government needs to get a search warrant to invade it? Magic 8 ball says —…
The Department of Justice is Going After Tech Platforms With Threats of Criminal Prosecution and Removal of Immunity if they DO and if they DON’T Block Speech the Government Doesn’t Like
On June 17, the Department of Justice released its proposed guidelines for making social media entities and carriers liable for the contents of what third parties post on their sites. The proposal…
When Tech Giants Commit Cyber Crimes; eBay’s Campaign of Threats and Harassment Leads to Criminal Charges in Boston
For $12.98 (or best offer) you can buy live adult hissing Madagascar cockroaches on eBay. For 15.95 you can buy a bloody pig mask. Forty bucks gets you a funeral…
Zooming [In]Security
With the COVID-19 Pandemic (remember the COVID-19 Pandemic?) workers were forced to find other means of communicating — including Zoom meetings. While there were a spate of high-profile security issues…
Scraping By – California Court Limits Use of Computer Crime Statute for High Volume Scraping
When you “access” a website, what are you authorized to do? And how would you know what is “authorized?” The federal Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, 18 USC 1030 makes…