Recent Academic Papers and Reports of Interest

[An FDA for Algorithms](http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2747994) (pdf; 29 pages; March 15, 2016) – Andrew Tuft

[The Fourth Amendment in the Information Age](http://www.yalelawjournal.org/forum/fourth-amendment-information-age) (April 27, 2016) – Robert Litt (General Counsel, Office of the Director of National Intelligence)

[The Fourth Amendment in the Coming Drone Age](http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2763374) (pdf; 29 pages; December 3, 2015) – Brooke Hofhenke (American University – Washington College of Law)

[Norms of Computer Trespass](http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2601707) (pdf; 42 pages; May 2, 2015) – Orin Kerr (The George Washington University Law School)

[Searching Places Unknown: Law Enforcement Jurisdiction on the Dark Web](http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Papers.cfm?abstract_id=2742706) (pdf; 45 pages; March 5, 2016) – Ahmed Ghappour (UC Hastings College of the Law)

[International Signals Intelligence Law: Provisions and History](https://lawfare.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/staging/2016/International%20Signals%20Intelligence%20Law.pdf) (March 2016) – A.M. Rutkowski

[Inefficiently Automated Law Enforcement](http://digitalcommons.law.msu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1149&context=lr) (pdf; 34 pages; May 4, 2016) – Woodrow Hartzog, Gregory Conti, John Nelson and Lisa A. Shay

[How Governments Can Promote Automated Driving](http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2749375) (pdf; 46 pages; March 17, 2016) – Bryant Walker Smith (University of South Carolina – School of Law)

05/10/2016: 

Some Recent Academic Papers and Reports of Interest

[Encryption and Evolving Technology: Implications for U.S. Law Enforcement Investigations](http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R44187.pdf) (pdf; 12 pages) – Kristin Finklea of the Congressional Research Service

“Don’t Panic – Making Progress on the ‘Going Dark’ Debate” – Berkman Center Report (overview [here](https://cyber.law.harvard.edu/pubrelease/dont-panic/); the [Report pdf here](https://cyber.law.harvard.edu/pubrelease/dont-panic/Dont_Panic_Making_Progress_on_Going_Dark_Debate.pdf) (37 pages, including notes and appendices))

[T-Mobile’s Binge On Violates Key Net Neutrality Principles](https://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/downloads/vanSchewick-2016-Binge-On-Report.pdf) – Barbara van Schewick (Stanford Law School; Stanford CIS)

[Consenting to Computer Use](http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2710757) – James Grimmelmann (University of Maryland Law School)

[Information Fiduciaries and the First Amendment](http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2675270) – Jack Balkin (Yale Law School)

[Who Should Define Injuries for Article III Standing?](http://www.stanfordlawreview.org/sites/default/files/online/articles/68_Stan_L_Rev_Online_76_Townsend.pdf) – Daniel Townsend

**See also:**

[Daedalus’ Winter 2016 issue](http://www.mitpressjournals.org/toc/daed/current#) on “The Internet” – edited by Yochai Benkler and David Clark ($, also available for kindle at [Amazon](http://www.amazon.com/Daedalus-145-Winter-2016-Internet-ebook/dp/B01ABCBFUK))

02/1/2016: 

Some Recent Academic Papers of Interest

[Constitutional Malware](http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2633247) – Jonathan Mayer

[Surveillance Duration Doesn’t Affect Privacy Expectations: An Empirical Test of the Mosaic Theory](http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2629373) – Lior Strahilevitz and Matthew B. Kugler

[Can Americans Resist Surveillance?](http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2635181) – Ryan Calo

[Investigating the Computer Security Practices and Needs of Journalists](http://www.franziroesner.com/pdf/journalism-sec15.pdf) – Susan McGregor, Franziska Roesner, Polina Charters and Tobin Holliday

[Circuit Fingerprinting Attacks: Passive Deanonymization of Tor Hidden Services](http://people.csail.mit.edu/devadas/pubs/circuit_finger.pdf) – Albert Kwon, Mashael AlSabah, David Lazar, Marc Dacier, and Srinivas Devadas

09/15/2015: 

Interesting Cyberlaw Papers

[**Bulk Metadata Collection: Statutory and Constitutional Considerations** (2013)](http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2344774) by Laura K. Donohue (Georgetown University Law Center); Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy (forthcoming). Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2344774
(#metadata)

[**The Mosaic Theory of the Fourth Amendment** (2012)](http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2032821) by Orin S. Kerr (George Washington University Law School); Michigan Law Review, Vol. 110, Forthcoming 2012. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2032821
(#mosaic #fourth amendment)

[**The Path of Internet Law: An Annotated Guide to Legal Landmarks** (2012)](http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1799578) – Michael L. Rustad (Suffolk University Law School) and Diane D’Angelo (Suffolk University Law School); Duke Law & Technology Review, Vol. 2011, No. 012; Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1799578

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