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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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
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Couple Win $14 Million after Un-Masking Anonymous Internet Trolls who Labeled them Sexual Deviants
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Jennifer Holt - Hearsay Culture - Show #160 - KZSU-FM
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In his talk, Alessandro Acquisti links two streams of research he is conducting at Carnegie Mellon University: the "behavioral economics of privacy,"…
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An evening conversation with CIS Executive Director of the Fair Use Project Anthony Falzone and Congressman Darrell Issa where they will discuss topics about SO…