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When Mobile Telecommunications Routes Become Banks
Lately, I have been puzzled by the proliferation of bank-mobile operator partnerships in the developed and emerging countries. The mobile carriers provide the…
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Curating Instead of Abusing the Internet’s Town Crier Capacity
With the U.S. Presidential Election season out of the gate, a shrill bloodbath of social media soon will decry or herald the records of President Barack Obama a…
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Word of Mouth 04.28.2012
Ever get the feeling that someone is watching you? Well, you may want to get used to it. While the US government has been putting un-manned drones to heavy use…
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The Real Problem with Driverless Cars
When a company sells a car that truly drives itself, the responsibility will fall on its maker. “It’s accepted in our world that there will be a shift,” says Br…
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Has the Internet Run Out of Ideas Already?
The internet was another one of those gloriously creative, anarchic technologies that spawned utopian dreams. Its internal architecture – its technical DNA, if…
Chain-Link Confidentiality
Disclosing personal information online often feels like losing control over one’s data forever; but this loss is not inevitable. This essay proposes a “chain-li…
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Look Up and Smile for the Drone
The Wall Street Journal noted one expert, Stanford Law School researcher Ryan Calo, who said “the domestic use of drones will likely grow as more machines are b…
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IP Lawyers Meet Tupac's Hologram
One IP issue that has been discussed recently is ownership and usage of a dead person's image. As Ryan Calo, the director for privacy and robotics at the St…
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A Glance Inside The Clearance Culture
The clearance culture is the set of norms and practices within the entertainment industry that mandates—whether or not the law actually requires it—that every s…
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Chain-Link Confidentiality
I have just uploaded a new essay about online privacy to SSRN that will appear in Volume 46 of the Georgia Law Review. The essay, titled "Chain-Link Confid…
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Fair Use during submittal of prior art during patent prosecution: John Wiley & Sons v. McDonnell Boehnen
Dennis Crouch today reports on John Wiley & Sons v. McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff. The crux of this case concerns the disclosing and submitting…
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Couple Win $14 Million after Un-Masking Anonymous Internet Trolls who Labeled them Sexual Deviants
'If the award is upheld, then people will think twice about what they say,' said Ryan Calo (CIS Director of Privacy and Robotics).'Defamation is one…