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The Battle for “Nice”
"Woodrow Hartzog, an associate professor at Samford University’s Cumberland School of Law, whose focus includes intellectual property law, says that the fe…
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Empirical Evidence of “Over-Removal” by Internet Companies under Intermediary Liability Laws
NOTE: I periodically update this post. Last update was May 8, 2020. The "Over-Removal" Issue Most intermediaries offer legal “Notice and Takedown”…
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Computers, Freedom, and Privacy 2015
I am heading to (and speaking at) the 25th Anniversary Computers, Freedom, and Privacy (CFP) this week over in Alexandria, VA. Looking forward to seeing old fr…
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Google should 'inform more' on right to be forgotten
"And lack of awareness may not be the only reason for the apparently low number of appeals, said Martin Husovec, a Slovak-born assistant professor at the T…
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This Week In Data Collection News, And The Privacy Paradox
""There's a bit of a disconnect between what people say and what they do," says Ryan Calo, a law professor at the University of Washington wh…
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Would You Pull the Trolley Switch? Does it Matter?
"Gerdes has been working with a philosophy professor, Patrick Lin, to make ethical thinking a key part of his team’s design process. Lin, who teaches at Ca…
David Brin - Hearsay Culture Show #245 - KZSU-FM
A talk show on KZSU-FM, Stanford, 90.1 FM, hosted by CIS Affiliate Scholar David S. Levine. The show includes guests and focuses on the intersection of technolo…
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The Coming Collision Between EU Privacy Regulation And American Free Speech
"Earlier this week, we wrote about the EU Court of Justice's decision that the NSA's surveillance of the internet meant that the EU-US data protect…
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As Safe Harbour ruled invalid, lawmakers reconsider CISA
"Omer Tene, vice president of research and education at the International Association of Privacy, told SCMagazine.com that the Safe Harbour decision would…
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What Makes a War Crime?
"“There’s no scenario where the United States would have wanted this outcome,” said Beth Van Schaack, visiting professor of human rights at Stanford. “The…
Users' Patronage: The Return of the Gift in the "Crowd Society"
In this work, I discuss the tension between gift and market economy throughout the history of creativity. For millennia, the production of creative artifacts ha…
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Intermediary Liability and User Content under Europe’s New Data Protection Law
Cross-posted to the Internet Policy Review News & Comments and Inforrm blogs. A big new law is coming, and a lot of companies doing business online aren’t…