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Privacy

Facebook and the market for privacy

by Massimiliano Trovato on June 1, 2010 • View Comments

Market pressure explains pretty much everything about the new Facebook privacy settings. It is helping in two different ways: by spreading information about the risks of oversharing and by favoring a more reliable access to social networking.

Facebook is not too big to fail

by Jerry Brito on May 26, 2010 • View Comments

Government action is unnecessary to address the privacy trouble in which Facebook has recently found itself. But this means the market could kill Facebook.

A new wave of privacy paternalism

by Massimiliano Trovato on May 13, 2010 • View Comments

We are facing a new wave of privacy paternalism. This approach overlooks the ability of users to care about their privacy and the freedom of companies to pick their business model

The end of anonymity

by Massimiliano Trovato on May 10, 2010 • View Comments

Lawmakers all over the world have been trying to criminalize anonymous access to the internet. In fact, this is both undesirable and unfeasible.

Big Brother’s Watching Is Not Helping

by Gabriel Okolski on May 4, 2010 • View Comments

Calls to expand urban surveillance camera systems in the wake of last weekend’s failed Times Square bombing represent little more than a knee-jerk reaction.

James Grimmelmann on online harassment, anonymity, and the Google Books settlement

by Jerry Brito on April 5, 2010 • View Comments

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James Grimmelmann, Associate Professor of Law at the New York Law School and faculty member of the Institute for Information Law and Policy, discusses online harassment and anonymity. The discussion also turns to a new proposal to combat online harassment and the Google Books settlement.

To protect or to inform poor multi-taskers?

by Stefanie Haeffele-Balch on April 4, 2010 • View Comments

A new study shows that reaction time is reduced while driving and talking on the phone. Is this a justification for more regulation?

Nathaniel Gleicher on the Stored Communications Act and the need for reform

by Jerry Brito on March 22, 2010 • View Comments

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Nathaniel Gleicher, Affiliated Fellow at the Yale Information Society Project and a Henry Luce Scholar advising the technology regulator in Korea for the year, discusses the Stored Communications Act and the need to reform it. The discussion also turns to online privacy, the lack of 4th Amendment protection on the Internet, and how users are tracked as they browse the web.

Ethan Zuckerman on internet censorship and the limits of circumvention

by Jerry Brito on March 8, 2010 • View Comments

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Ethan Zuckerman, Senior Researcher at Harvard University’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society, discusses internet censorship and the limits of circumvention technology. The discussion also turns to censorship in China and other countries, Twitter’s role in last year’s disputed Iranian elections, and online public spaces.