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Monitoring and compliance in the ChoicePoint settlement
In January 2006, Choicepoint and FTC settled a case claiming that Choicepoint, a consumer-profiling company, violated the FTC Act and the Fair Credit Reporting…
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Do Internet firms have a responsibility to spread democracy abroad?
Perhaps you've heard, but if you haven't, check this out: Just last week, the House International Relations subcommittee hauled a number of executives…
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How Divided Are We?
James Q. Wilson, the Ronald Reagan professor of public policy at Pepperdine University, has a very interesting piece in this month's Commentary. Here are s…
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Domestic Spying—Privacy & Security Interests
Feb 17- Moderating panel on "Domestic Spying—Privacy & Security Interests" at Stanford Law & Policy Review Symposium.…
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Court Orders Justice Department to Release NSA Surveillance Documents in EPIC Lawsuit
Wowsers! In response to a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed by the Electronic Privacy Information Center, a federal judge has ordered (pdf) the Departme…
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Ripping my own CD's is infringment?!?
The EFF posted this very interesting article about the RIAA's filing in the DMCA rule-making proceedings -- apparently, the RIAA thinks that ripping my own…
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Proposed fair use exemptions to DMCA anticircumvention
H.R. 4536 proposes adding an exception to 17 U.S.C. § 1201 for circumvention of access control or copy protection provided that the circumvention is "neces…
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Should we be using RFID tags to monitor workers?
A few days ago FT.Com ran a story (available here) about an Ohio company that has embedded RFID (radio frequency ID) technology in two of its employees. Ostens…
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Shameful Behavior
It disturbs me to no end to say that, when viewing these pictures (warning: they are graphic), it is difficult not to be ashamed as an American, even if these a…
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Nurturing the African Commons Project blog!
"So the main idea behind the African Commons Project is about nurturing the idea of an “information commons” in Africa - discovering what that is, what it…
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Goldstein and Friedman
Some random thoughts I had about two books I read recently: "Copyright's Highway" by SLS Prof. Paul Goldstein, and "The World is Flat" b…
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The Religion of Liberalism
In yesterday’s New York Times the distinguished law professor Stanley Fish offered some provocative commentary on the recent furor over the Danish cartoons: “T…