The Case for Online Obscurity
Cross-posted from The Atlantic On the Internet, obscure information has a minimal risk of being discovered or understood by unintended recipients. Empirical re…
Academic Writing
Regulation and Technology
This Article consists of some general observations and a few examples that illustrate them. First, technology can benefit tremendously from government involveme…
Managing Autonomous Transportation Demand
“Today we are well underway to a solution of the traffic problem.”1 This claim, made by Robert Moses in 1948, is as true today as it was then. Which is to say,…
Automated Vehicles are Probably Legal in the United States
Bryant Walker Smith, Automated Vehicles Are Probably Legal in the United States, 1 Tex. A&M L. Rev. 411 (2014) (SSRN) This 2014 law review article (an upda…
The Life, Death, and Revival of Implied Confidentiality
The concept of implied confidentiality has deep legal roots, but it has been largely ignored by the law in online-related disputes. A closer look reveals that i…
On Banning Autonomous Lethal Systems: Human Rights, Automation and the Dehumanizing of Lethal Decision-making
This article considers the recent literature concerned with establishing an international prohibition on autonomous weapon systems. It seeks to address concerns…
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…
To Track or “Do Not Track”: Advancing Transparency and Individual Control in Online Behavioral Advertising
Authors: Omer Tene & Jules Polonetsky From the Minnesota Journal of Law, Science & Technology Voume 13, Issue 1, Winter 2012. * Publication Type:Aca…
Third-Party Web Tracking: Policy and Technology
John Mitchell and I have written a new paper that synthesizes research on policy and technology issues surrounding third-party web tracking. It will appear at t…
The Social Layer of Freedom of Information Law
It is now received wisdom that a properly functioning democracy requires transparency and accountability — information shared with the public that allows the pu…
Valuing Attribution and Publication in Intellectual Property
This is the third in a series of articles focusing on the experimental economics of intellectual property. In earlier work, we have experimentally studied the w…
SOPA/PIPA Copyright Bills Also Target American Sites
SOPA/PIPA Copyright Bills Also Target American Sites: A blog post in Ammori.org. * Publication Type:Academic Writing * Publication Date:12/31/2011…