Because Everyone Needs Facebook
Facebook has rolled out several proposed updates to its privacy policy that ultimately gives Facebook even more control over its users information. Coming on...
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32 ArticlesFraming Big Data Debates
If finding the proper balance between privacy risks and Big Data rewards is the big public policy challenge of the day, we can start...
Read MoreMOOCs and My Future Employment Prospects?
Massive open online courses are a new, rapidly evolving platform for delivering educational instruction. Since their appearance just a half-decade ago, multiple platforms now...
Read MorePrivacy Protections from FISA Court May Not Compute
This is cross-post on the American Constitution Society’s blog. After the events of the past few weeks, a discussion presented by the American Constitution...
Read MoreThe Rhetoric and Law of Government Surveillance
Two weeks ago, after the President’s national security address, I was left with little reaction other than the speech sounded good. The President made overtures...
Read MoreParsing the Purpose Limitation Principle
Last month, the European Union’s Article 29 Working Party (WP29) released an opinion analyzing the data protection principle of purpose limitation. That principle, which...
Read MoreKeeping Secrets from Society
While the first round of oral arguments surrounding gay marriage was the big event before the Supreme Court today, the Court also issued a...
Read MoreIs Big Brother Getting Into Our Cars?
In the public relations battle between The New York Times and Tesla over the paper’s poor review of Tesla’s Model S electric car, the real story may be...
Read MoreRural Minority Is a Vast Landed Majority
In an anecdote-filled piece on Republican obsolescence by Robert Draper in The New York Times Magazine, Draper discusses the results of a focus group of average Ohioans....
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