Jeff reports on legal issues that impact the future of the tech industry, such as privacy, net neutrality and intellectual property. He previously worked as a reporter for Reuters in Paris and New York, and his free-lance work includes clips for the Economist, the New York Times and the Globe & Mail. A frequent guest on media outlets like NPR and Fox, Jeff is also a lawyer, having passed the bar in New York and Ontario.
It’s been a lousy week so far for opponents of U.S. spy tactics: a federal judge shut down a long-running challenge to the NSA’s mass collection of customer internet data, while President Obama brushed off… Read more »
A civil liberties group has filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Marshals Service, demanding more information about a controversial surveillance tactic involving airplanes that fly over urban areas in order to sweep up… Read more »
Let the dog and pony show begin! Republicans in Congress and their cable company allies are smarting over news that the FCC will reclassify internet providers, and have responded with not one, but two… Read more »
Left Shark rose to internet super-stardom by doing his own thing — and now a man selling models of the Super Bowl shark is doing the same, bucking the Katy Perry lawyer who wants… Read more »
Warrant canaries die quietly so their passing can escape notice. But that’s less likely to happen now thanks to “Canary Watch,” a new website that tracks the health of warrant canaries used by tech firms and… Read more »
Last night’s Grammy Awards served up the usual hoopla and back-patting. But a policy plea from singer Jennifer Hudson also underscored how 2015 is likely to be the year when a long-brewing fight comes to… Read more »
Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-Va) has reintroduced a patent reform bill, known as the Innovation Act, that enjoyed bipartisan support last year, but was killed by Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vt). The prospects… Read more »
Who saw this coming? A year ago, the smart money said the cable industry would call the shots as the FCC moved to rewrite rules for the internet. But this week the agency chairman threw sand… Read more »
Chris Hulls got mugged on payday. The founder of Life360 had just raised $50 million to expand his business, a social network app for families, when a patent troll came calling… Read more »
Professional investors known as quants use hard facts about companies — share price, EBITDA, and so on — to inform the algorithms that carry out their automated trading strategies. But softer sources… Read more »