Michael Zimmer has updated and re-posted his extremely helpful directions for adjusting Facebook privacy settings. Do yourself a favor, stop what you are doing, go read and follow his instructions.
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Cyberprof Michael Risch has posted some interesting thoughts on the emerging complexity of Section 230. We’ve talked about this provision on the blog many times before. And Mark Lemley wrote a good paper on it a while back. The provision pretty much immunizes web sites and other internet providers from liability for a host [...]
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Bronxnet has a video up of a show on cyber-harassment where I get to talk about the topic. (No, I did not give a “how-to” tutorial. I charge for that sort of thing.) This has become a vexing issue legally, from the Megan Meier / Lori Drew tragedy to the AutoAdmit case. I’d love your [...]
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Two epilogues to this week’s media boomlet about the Facebook terms of service. (To review: Facebook quietly changed its terms to remove a provision that used to say all Facebookâs rights to your content terminated if you deleted your account. The Consumerist Blog pointed it out under the headline “Facebook’s New Terms Of [...]
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I blogged yesterday about the controversy surrounding Facebook’s new terms of service. This morning when I logged in to Facebook (I should note that I use it just about every day), there was a big banner message announcing that the company was returning to its old terms of service, pending their total redrafting. And the [...]
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Over the weekend the Consumerist blog started a bit of a cyberstorm when it pointed out that recent revisions to the Facebook terms of service removed a provision that used to say all Facebook’s rights to your content terminated if you deleted your account.
I was interviewed about it today on NPR’s All Things Considered, where [...]
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Former New York Times and Vanity Fair journalist David Margolick has a long and detailed article about the litigation against the AutoAdmit message board by two Yale Law School students who were targeted for harassment by the commenters there. (h/t Brian Leiter.)
My views on this topic have changed somewhat as I have learned more from [...]
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Finally, proof that this blog advances scholarship! I’ve completed a manuscript for my newest journal article, which began life as some posts (starting here) musing about the legal implications of Facebook’s then-new advertising programs, including Facebook Beacon, which notified users’ friends of their purchases. The article, Disclosure, Endorsement, and Identity in Social Marketing, will appear [...]
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A coalition of investors anchored by the New York City pension funds has filed resolutions for consideration at the 2009 annual shareholder meetings of major internet service providers, seeking more information about their network management practices and impacts on customer’s privacy and free expression. In particular, the group wants to know more about deep packet [...]
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A new privacy advocacy organization called the Future of Privacy Forum, funded by AT&T, has debuted in Washington. I might have assumed it would be another industry-driven group seeking to prevent serious policy changes, except that I have a lot of personal respect for its leadership. The director, Jules Polonetsky has a long [...]
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