Encryption, Our Last Line of Defense
The Implications of Weakening or Breaking Encryption Encryption is fundamental to our daily life. Practically everything we do online makes use of encryption is some form. Access to our financial...
View ArticleICANN's Single-Character .COM Malarkey
Auctions betray brands and trademark registrants. This past Saturday, a most remarkable thing happened when, for the first time in 26 years, the IANA registrar opted not to renew its registrations for...
View ArticleDomain Name Registrar Isn't Liable for Counterfeit Goods – InvenTel v. GoDaddy
InvenTel makes security cams for cars. It is trying to crack down on Chinese counterfeiters. It brought a prior lawsuit against a wide range of defendants, including GoDaddy. InvenTel voluntarily...
View ArticleThe High Cost Of Privacy In A Post-GDPR World
It has officially been over a year since the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) took effect and in that time, we've come to see both the benefits, and the very serious drawbacks...
View ArticleThe Digital Decade – A Look Back
With 2019 coming to a close, we're not just saying goodbye to the past 365 days, we're also saying goodbye to an entire decade. As we bid farewell to the 2010s, we're taking this opportunity to look...
View ArticleUnfamiliarity and Unpreparedness in Proceedings Under the UDRP
There is a difference, of course, between asserting a claim that cannot possibly succeed in an administrative proceeding under the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) and being...
View ArticleInternet Governance and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Part 3:...
Article 6-12: Personal Rights. Co-authored by Klaus Stoll and Prof Sam Lanfranco. [1] Internet Governance like all governance needs to be founded in guiding principles from which all policy making is...
View ArticleFalse Expectations: Attorney's Fees and Statutory Damages in ACPA Actions
There is a degree of dread in the investor community that prized domain names will be forfeited to trademark owners in proceedings under the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP). Since...
View ArticleWhy Are Internet Security Standards Badly Deployed and What to Do About It?
In 2019 under the aegis of the Internet Governance Forum, a pilot project was conducted into the causes of and solutions for the, in general, slow deployment of internet security standards. Standards...
View ArticleInternet Governance and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Part 4:...
Articles 13-15: Political Rights (I), Co-authored by Klaus Stoll and Prof Sam Lanfranco. [1] This is Part 4 of a series of articles published (here in CircleID) on the UDHR and human rights in the...
View ArticleTechnology Vendors Must Be Proactive in Dealing With COVID-19 Problems
Early action now on possible performance issues will "flatten the curve" of customer problems in the coming weeks and months. Here are three things technology and software vendors can do right now to...
View ArticleMalware Detection Provider Gets Important Victory Allowing It to Flag...
Despite a recent Ninth Circuit decision denying immunity to malware detection software for targeting competitor's software, court holds that Section 230 protected Malwarebytes from liability for...
View ArticleCybersquatting and Reverse Domain Name Hijacking: UDRP to ACPA
Trademark owners in the U.S. have a choice in suing for alleged cybersquatting: either the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) or the Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act (ACPA)....
View ArticlePreserving ICANN's Independence Through Bold Action – Not Inaction
This week, the ICANN Board will vote on whether to approve the transfer of control of the .ORG domain to a private equity firm called Ethos Capital. This is a weighty decision for ICANN, since in order...
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The Price of Lack of Clarity
From Ambiguity in Privacy Policies and the Impact of Regulation paper: "To see how a sentence may reflect these categories, the phrase "we generally may share personal information we collect on the...
View ArticleInternet Governance and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Part 5:...
Articles 15, (revisited)16-17, Freedom of Assembly, Economic and Social Rights. Co-authored by Klaus Stoll, Prof Sam Lanfranco, Sarah Deutsch1 Internet Governance, like all governance, needs to be...
View ArticleCircleID Launches the First in a Series of Community Dialogues on COVID-19...
A CircleID community dialogue series to assess challenges and implications of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic on the Internet. The COVID-19 pandemic has led to the rapid migration of the world's...
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Surveillance Capitalist in Chief
Co-authored by Klaus Stoll and Professor Sam Lanfranco. Surveillance capitalism monetizes private data that it collects without consent of the individuals concerned, data to analyze and sell to...
View ArticleArticle 22 of the GDPR Should Not Preclude Contemplated Automation
This post was co-authored by Russell Pangborn and Brigid Mahoney of Seed IP Law Group. There is an ongoing disagreement among various members and groups in the ICANN community regarding automation —...
View ArticleAsserting but Not Proving Cybersquatting Under the UDRP
Having trademarks (registered or unregistered) is the prerequisite for maintaining a UDRP, but having one is not conclusive of either rights or legitimate interests or registration and use in bad...
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