"Explores evolving cyberlaw pertaining to such issues as data privacy, freedom of expression, intellectual property, e-commerce, and contract law. Free and open source software licensing raises questions regarding developer's liability and trade secrets. Recent advances in surveillance and tapping and in computerized voting technology have also raised many legal issues. The jurisdiction of cyberlaw--should the Internet be treated as a physical space?--is yet another layer. Issues of net neutrality are also considered." -- Publisher description.

1.The Communications Decency Act and Section 230. Who is responsible for online content? -- The Trump-Twitter fight ropes in the rest of Silicon Valley / Steven Overly and Nancy Scola, Politico, May 30, 2020 -- The law that made Facebook what it is today / Frank LoMonte, The Conversation, April 11, 2018 -- Biden wants Sec. 230 gone, calls tech "totally irresponsible," "little creeps" / Kate Cox, Ars Technica, January 17, 2020 -- WSJ, WaPO, NYT spread false internet law claims / Matthew Feeney, Cato Institute, August 7, 2019 -- The fight over Section 230--and the internet as we know it / Matt Laslo, Wired, August 13, 2019 -- 2. Net neutrality. Should the internet be a public utility? -- The Wired guide to net neutrality / Klint Finley, Wired, May 5, 2020 -- FCC chairman: our job is to protect a free and open internet / Ajit Pai, CNET, June 10, 2018 -- What the Microsoft antitrust case taught us / Richard Blumenthal and Tim Wu, The New York Times, May 18, 2018 -- How the loss of net neutrality could change the internet / Margaret Harding McGill, Politico, December 14, 2017 -- Net neutrality may be dead in the US, but Europe is still strongly committed to open internet access / Saleem Bhatti, The Conversation, January 5, 2018 -- 3. Digital copyright law and open-source software. The end of private (digital) ownership? -- A brief history of open source software / Andy Updegrove, ConsortiumInfo.org, December 27, 2019 -- Reevaluating the DMCA 22 years later: let's think of the users / rKatherine Trendacosta, EFF, February 12, 2020 -- To save Pepe the Frog from the alt-right, his creator has invoked copyright law's darker side / Aja Romano, Vox, September 21, 2017 -- Twitter blocks EFF tweet that criticized bogus takedown of a previous tweet / Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica, April 15, 2019 -- In 2019, multiple open source companies changed course- is it the right move? / Scott Gilbertson, Ars Technica, October 16, 2019 -- With friends like AWS, who needs an open source business? / Cliff Saran, Computer Weekly, January 7, 2020 -- 4. Privacy and cybercrime. Hackers, user rights, and government surveillance -- Senate Republicans unveil COVID-19 specific privacy bill / National Law Review, May 26, 2020 -- Mixed messages: encryption fight pits security against privacy / Mark Scott, Politico, December 23, 2019 -- One man's obsessive fight to reclaim his Cambridge Analytica data / Issie Lapowsky, Wired, January 25, 2019 -- A dark web tycoon pleads guilty. But how was he caught? / Patrick Howell O'Neill, MIT Technology Review, February 8, 2020 -- Hackers will be the weapon of choice for governments in 2020 / Patrick Howell O'Neill, MIT Technology Review, January 2, 2020 -- Proposed US law is "Trojan horse" to stop online encryption, critics say / Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica, March 5, 2020 -- Does the CFAA apply to voting machine hacks? / Derek B. Johnson, FCW, August 30, 2018 -- Helicopter government? How the internet of things enables pushbutton regulation from a distance / Clyde Wayne Crews Jr., Forbes, November 11, 2019 -- Doublecheck that ballot: controversial voting machines make their primary debut in South Carolina / Eric Geller, Politico, February 28, 2020 -- Zoombombing and the law / Eugene Volokh, The Volokh Conspiracy, April 7, 2020 -- 5. Digital nationalism and the splinternet. From unity to division -- Society's dependence on the internet: 5 cyber issues the coronavirus lays bare / Laura DeNardis and Jennifer Daskal, The Conversation, March 27, 2020 -- Battlefield internet: a plan for securing cyberspace / Michèle Flournoy and Michael Sulmeyer, Foreign Affairs, September/October 2018 -- The rising threat of digital nationalism / Akash Kapur, The Wall Street Journal, November 1, 2019 -- Make the internet American again? / John Hendel, Politico, January 23, 2018 -- Should the U.S. reclaim control of the internet? Evaluating ICANN's administrative oversight since the 2016 handover / Mark Grabowski, Nebraska Law Review, August 6, 2018.