by Lauren Babst | Jan 22, 2015 | Legal/Tech News, Technology
This past May, the Court of Justice of the European Union approved “the right to be forgotten” in a case brought by Mario Costeja against a newspaper and Google, a move which fundamentally changed our notions of Internet privacy. More than a decade earlier, Costeja...
by jmacpher | Mar 21, 2012 | Commentary, Quick Links
Last year, two teams of researchers funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) succeeded in genetically modifying the H5N1 avian flu virus. The modified virus is capable of respiratory transmission between ferrets, suggesting that it would also be...
by Suman Tatpudy | Mar 20, 2012 | Commentary
The Bollywood film industry has been using ideas from foreign films since its inception. This “borrowing” has ranged from melodies for background scores to entire plot summaries and even translated dialogues. However, with the advent of technology and the increasing...
by anickow | Feb 1, 2012 | Commentary
The social media website Twitter announced in a recent blog post entitled “The Tweets Must Still Flow” its plan to enact a new censorship initiative. “Starting today,” Twitter announced, “we give ourselves the ability to reactively withhold content from users in a...
by zhangsy | Jan 25, 2012 | Commentary
SINA WEIBO is the most widely used micro-blog in China, which has more than 300 million users by the end of 2011. WEIBO is like the Chinese version of Twitter. On December 16th, 2011, “Beijing Micro-blog Development Management Rules” were released by Beijing...
