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Read German in English
Sight and Sight is an exiting new service being live since March 1. It offers daily abstracts of the feuilletons of Germanys (and Switzerlands) biggest newspape…
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Daniel J. Solove
Monday March 7, 2005 12:30 – 1:30 p.m. Room 271 Free and Open to all! Lunch Served In the Information Age, our lives are documented in digital dossiers maintai…
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Bush nominates John Bolton as UN Ambassador
A less diplomatic person would be hard to find. And it would be difficult to find some who despises the UN more than Bolton. It's like choosing Pat Robert…
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China Criticizes U.S. Human Rights Record
Piqued at the annual critique by the U.S. State Department, China has turned the tables and prepared its own assessment of America's human rights record for…
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Running the World Bank
Sebastian Mallaby has an interesting take on the possibility of Fiorina (or Wolfowitz) for the top job at the WB. He argues that appointing a failed private ma…
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Even Hostage Takers Like Roma football
According to the Italian reporter's account, her captors were struck by the concern of an Italian soccer star with the kidnapping: Then an almost funny in…
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Google Has A Blog
Google has a blog! This is a tricky move for a public company, and I would hope that a lawyer is vetting posts to make sure that they comply with securities la…
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Spurring an Arms Race in South Asia
Tom Friedman laments the "pacifist" EU's decision to sell arms to China. He might also lament our own decision to sell arms--including F-16s--to…
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Don't let women do science, and jail men with long ring fingers!
A new study reminds us how we should be extremely careful in interpreting supposed genetic predispositions: How long a man's second finger is relative to h…
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P2P in the wake of the Grokster case
So here is another potential example of an application of P2P systems that might even be helpful from the music industry's perspective.…
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Jennifer Granick talks Hilton Hacking
Time magazine quotes CIS Director Jennifer Granick in this short piece about information security.…
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Bloodsport in a UK prison?
BBC reports on the killing of a 19-year-old Asian man, allegedly because of his race. Mubarek was battered to death by known racist Robert Stewart at Feltham Y…