A South African court on Friday denied President Jacob Zuma's appeal of a prior court ruling that he should face nearly 800 corruption charges. Judge Aubrey Ledwaba stated "e seriously considered whether the appeal would...
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Attorneys for Chelsea Manning, the former US military soldier who leaked secrets to WikiLeaks , on Thursday, filed a brief to appeal her 35-year prison term for violating the Espionage Act. Manning is asserting that...
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) filed a personal privacy violation complaint on Tuesday with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) against Google . The complaint outlines that the default "sync" setting of Chromebooks [product...
Despite flaws, CISA represents progress for federal government action on cybersecurity
JURIST Guest Columnist Markus Rauschecker of University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law discusses the recent Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act...Over the past few years, Congress made many attempts to pass cyber threat data sharing legislation. Until this year,...
Human Rights Watch (HRW) filed suit Tuesday accusing the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) of collecting records of the organization's telephone calls to foreign countries. The DEA attempted to make the existence of...
JURIST Guest Columnist Gregory Fouladi, Valparaiso University School of Law Class of 2016, discusses the Constitutional ambiguity surrounding Federal Agency phishing techniques ... Imagine a scenario where you are sitting in a private area of your home browsing on your...
Federal appeals court hears arguments in NSA surveillance case
A three-judge panel for the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Tuesday heard oral arguments in a case challenging the National Security Agency's (NSA) phone data surveillance program. Prior to oral arguments,...
A Definite Problem of Patent Law: Nautilus v. Biosig Instruments
JURIST Guest Columnist Charles Duan of The Patent Reform Project at Public Knowledge discusses problems in Patent Law and Nautilus v. Biosig Instruments... The patent system is intended to incentivize invention and the spread of knowledge. As part of dispatching...
Federal judge rules panhandling ban in Maine unconstitutional
The United States District Court of Maine ruled on Wednesday that a city ordinance banning people from panhandling in median strips of streets was unconstitutional. US District Judge George Singal found that the...
