Search and the First Amendment

Posted on May 15th, 2013 by Derek Bambauer

Jane and I are in Arlington, Virginia, for a conference on Competition Policy in Search and Social Media at George Mason University. Jane, Neil Richards, Dawn Nunziato, and Stuart Benjamin will discuss the interplay of the First Amendment, regulation, and search / social media. I expect an entertaining fight over whether search results are speech, [...]

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A Final Report, But Just a Start

Posted on March 26th, 2012 by William McGeveran

The Federal Trade Commission today released its “final report” on consumer data privacy, updating a preliminary staff report from 2010. (Here’s a PDF of all 112 pages). The word “final” should be taken with several metric tons of salt, however — there is nothing final about this report, by its own admission. The report does [...]

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