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Clementi And The Nature Of Privacy Harm

Ann Bartow once criticized Daniel Solove for not providing enough “dead bodies” in his discussion of privacy.  I tend to disagree that such proof is necessary.…

Press

Online Classifieds: Who Is Responsible?

Senior research fellow Ryan Calo talks to American Public Media's Marketplace about the Communications Decency Act and website liability when it comes to us…

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(Im)Perfect Enforcement

Prohibition wasn’t working.  President Hoover assembled the Wickersham Commission to investigate why.  The Commission concluded that despite an historic enforce…

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Banking on Our Privacy

Privacy is something we lose actively, not passively.  Listen to the verbs of our digital lives: * We browse the web and Google. * We tweet and Twitter. * W…

Press

Craigslist Adult Ads Under Fire

Ryan Calo, a senior research fellow at the Center for Internet & Society, talks to Michael Krasny of KQED Forum about the legality of Craigslist's adult…

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The Imponderable Privacy Problem, Again

Emotions ran high at this week’s Privacy Identity and Innovation conference in Seattle.  They usually do when the topic of privacy and technology  is raised, an…

Publication

People Can Be So Fake

People Can Be So Fake: A New Dimension to Privacy and Technology Scholarship, 114 PENN STATE LAW REVIEW 809 (2010) * Publication Type:Academic Writing * Publ…

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After the cyberlaw deluge, another deluge

If I ever had any hope of “keeping  up” with developments in the regulation of information technology—or  even the nine specific areas I explored in The Laws of…