Technology, Privacy & Internet Law

Old constitutional rules are constantly getting tested by new technology, from location tracking to AI training data. This section explains where the law currently lands on platform liability, digital surveillance warrants, and AI copyright disputes: the rules that determine what companies can do with your data and your work.

  1. Reviewed Jul 2026 Tech & Privacy

    Section 230, Explained

    The twenty-six words that shaped the internet, what they actually cover, and the cases testing their edges.
  2. Reviewed Jul 2026 Tech & Privacy

    Geofence and Keyword Warrants

    When police ask a company for everyone near a place or everyone who searched a term, the Fourth Amendment gets tested.
  3. Reviewed Jul 2026 Tech & Privacy

    Carpenter v. United States, Explained

    Getting a week of a phone's location history from a carrier is a search that usually needs a warrant.
  4. Reviewed Jul 2026 Tech & Privacy

    AI and Copyright Infringement

    Whether training a model on copyrighted work is fair use is being fought out in court right now. The state of play.

Other sections

Constitutional & Civil Rights The rights the Constitution protects, and the tests courts use to weigh them, from free speech to search and seizure. Criminal Justice The rules that govern arrest, trial, and release: Miranda, the burden of proof, plea bargains, and bail. Business, IP & Employment Law The rules of work and ownership: non-competes, trademarks and copyrights, fair use, and at-will employment. Courts & the Legal System How the system runs: the path to the Supreme Court, circuit splits, precedent, and who has standing to sue.