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A Duty of Loyalty for Privacy Law

Author(s): 
Woodrow Hartzog
Publication Date: 
October 29, 2020
Publication Type: 
Academic Writing

It wasn’t supposed to be like this. When the Internet emerged in the mid-1990s, it was heralded as an unprecedented technology of human empowerment; a place where human beings could meet, learn, and express themselves, transforming our society for the better. It was also hailed as a realm of privacy, in which those empowered humans could read, connect and communicate on their own terms, safely cocooned in bubbles of anonymity where, as the famous New Yorker cartoon put it, ‘no one knows you are a dog.’  Read more about A Duty of Loyalty for Privacy Law

The Senate’s twin threats to online speech and security

Author(s): 
Riana Pfefferkorn
Publication Date: 
July 13, 2020
Publication Type: 
Academic Writing

This is a cruel summer. The COVID-19 toll increases daily. Millions are out of work and risk losing their homes. The senseless loss of Black lives continues despite weeks of mass protests. Behind it all lurks the climate crisis. Amid these pressing issues, members of the Senate have decided to spend their time creating their own threat to Americans: legislation that would make Americans less safe, while simultaneously harming online speech, privacy, and encryption.

It's all linked: How communication to the public affects internet architecture

Author(s): 
Giancarlo Frosio
Publication Date: 
June 2, 2020
Publication Type: 
Academic Writing
The architecture of the Internet is changing. A novel expansive construction of communication and making available to the public has been shaking the Internet ecosystem. It reaches into basic online activities, such as linking. Departing from well-established international approaches, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has recently decided a multitude of cases that redesigned the notion of communication to the public in the Internet, while discussing linking activities in particular.

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