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21 Jul 2016, 9:05 pm
[Southeast Texas Record on filing just before runout of statute of limitations] “Woman Sues Construction Company For Allowing Man To Kill Himself By Jumping From Hi-Rise And Landing On Her Car” [CBS Los Angeles] “Families: Hamas on Facebook, so firm must pay $1B after terror deaths” [Cyrus Farivar, ArsTechnica] Cloud of blame: “W.V. [read post]
21 Sep 2014, 11:00 am
Cyrus Farivar RICHMOND, CA—Of all the places that have come up with a clever way to protest Yelp’s alleged aggressive advertising tactics, a small plucky Italian restaurant in a strip mall just northeast of San Francisco, is as unlikely as they come. [read post]
8 Nov 2016, 10:40 am
(credit: Cyrus Farivar) Today is Election Day in the United States, so we are resurfacing this story on auditing election results that originally ran in 2012. [read post]
8 Oct 2014, 3:30 pm
Cyrus Farivar PALO ALTO, CA—Speaking at the gym at the high school where he used to play basketball in the 1960s, Sen. [read post]
3 Mar 2015, 2:28 pm
The NYPD may soon become the latest police department to begin paying private license plate tracking corporation Vigilant Solutions for access to the company’s nationwide location database, according to a report in the New York Daily News and documents unearthed by Ars Technica's Cyrus Farivar. [read post]
20 Oct 2020, 10:30 am
Cindy was followed by our keynote speaker, longtime friend of EFF, author, and one of the top reporters researching all things tech, Cyrus Farivar. [read post]
8 Mar 2013, 7:35 am
At the very least, they don’t have a lot of faith in what Johnny Law is likely to do with their location data – and it’s something the rest of us outside the Republic of T. may all eventually benefit from.According to a report by Ars Technica’s Cyrus Farivar, legislators in Austin have proposed two mobile privacy bills that are stricter than any yet seen by any other US governmental entity – even tougher than the one California Governor Jerry… [read post]
13 Dec 2017, 2:53 am
NCAA [Ilya Shapiro/Cato, Jacob Sullum, earlier] At recent federal court showdown with Waymo, things went from bad to worse for Uber’s lawyers [Cyrus Farivar, ArsTechnica] Tags: discrimination law, school lunch, Supreme Court, taxis and ridesharing December 13 roundup is a post from Overlawyered - Chronicling the high cost of our legal system [read post]
31 Jul 2013, 8:00 am
Cyrus Farivar OAKLAND, CA—At a regularly scheduled city council meeting last night, the Oakland City Council unanimously accepted a $2 million federal grant that would create a round-the-clock "Domain Awareness Center" (DAC) in the West Coast port city. [read post]
5 Apr 2015, 9:05 pm
Arkansas passes first-in-nation law to protect photographers’ rights, including right to film public employees/officials [Dan Greenberg, The Arkansas Project] “Colorado, Texas and California Lawmakers Introduce Bills to Protect Rights of Citizens to Record Cops” [Carlos Miller, Photography Is Not A Crime] On the other hand: “Texas Bill Would Make It Illegal For You To Film A Cop Beating You” [Lowering the Bar, more (“if you tell me I can’t film you in… [read post]
4 Aug 2014, 12:00 pm
Cyrus Farivar SAN FRANCISCO—A three-person Korean-American team—including two 17-year-old college students—won a weekend-long hackathon sponsored by the Human Rights Foundation (HRF) designed to help people in North Korea. [read post]
24 Feb 2013, 10:15 am
Cyrus Farivar Since Julian Assange has been holed up as an asylum grantee in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, Assange and his people have maintained a GMail account, ecuembpress@gmail.com, for the press to communicate with them. [read post]
2 Jan 2011, 7:24 pm
The Risks Posed by New Wiretapping Technologies (February) Siva Vaidhyanathan – The Googlization of Everything, and Why We Should Worry (March) Cyrus Farivar – The Internet of Elsewhere: The Emergent Effects of a Wired World (May) Eddan Katz & Ramesh Subramanian (Eds.) [read post]
15 Apr 2016, 8:20 am
(credit: Cyrus Farivar) On Wednesday morning, less than two hours before journalist Matthew Keys’ sentencing hearing in federal court, Ars received an e-mail with an attached nine-page letter making a shocking claim, which for now is impossible to confirm: "Matthew Keys is innocent. [read post]
7 Dec 2018, 5:08 am
[Evan Tager and Matthew Waring, WLF] California lawyers sue electric scooter companies and manufacturers after users run into pedestrians on street, park improperly in handicapped spaces, and leave them in places where they can be tripped over [Cyrus Farivar, ArsTechnica] Defendants obtain fees and costs in suit against siren maker over firefighter hearing loss [Stephen McConnell, Drug and Device Law] Some safety advocates’ flip-flops on autonomous vehicle legislation in… [read post]
2 Dec 2016, 6:10 am
(credit: Cyrus Farivar) OAKLAND, Calif. [read post]
12 Oct 2015, 9:05 pm
[Tennessee: Watchdog] Louisiana town getting 87% of its revenue from traffic tickets has 188 people, 5 cop cars [Marshall Project via Balko] For second time, this time in Chicago case, former CEO of red light camera company cops a federal plea [Cyrus Farivar, Ars Technica] Opposition from law enforcement shoots down asset forfeiture reform in California [Scott Shackford/Reason, more] Despite talk of being friendlier to forfeiture reform, Department of Justice fed talking points to… [read post]
24 Jan 2018, 9:16 am
. * May 14, 7-8:30pm: In another event we haven’t officially announced yet, Cyrus Farivar will be speaking about his book, Habeas Data: Privacy v. the rise of Surveillance Tech Also, on March 24, the Internet Law Works-in-Progress conference–a joint project of Santa Clara Law and New York Law School–rotates back to NYC. [read post]
13 Aug 2013, 6:30 am
As Ars' Cyrus Farivar reported, the NSA tried to set the context of its activities with a Carl Sagan-like metaphor: According to figures published by a major tech provider, the Internet carries 1,826 Petabytes of information per day. [read post]
11 Jan 2017, 10:45 am
So in remembrance of the man, we're resurfacing Cyrus Farivar's memories of Swartz that originally ran on January 12, 2013. [read post]
