Thanks to Rachel Miller, you can watch the video of the panel on WikiLeaks, and learn quite a bit about the archiving and records management profession to boot!
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Last night, Egypt severed its connections with the wider Internet. (Coverage from the New York Times and Global Voices, for example, and see coverage of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s remarks.) There are at least two worrisome implications of this move. First, Egyptian protesters are using the Net to coordinate, and to keep in touch [...]
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Saturday Night Live has a great skit on Julian Assange. Any bit that includes the phrase “good-natured birds” has to be awesome, and it is. (Hat tip: Jen Schwartz, who knows her cybersecurity.)
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Our own Bill McGeveran discusses how labor law, and corporate culture, will be reshaped by the advent of social media in today’s New York Times “Room for Debate.” And now, if you’ll excuse me, I need to go delete some Facebook posts.
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Today, I moderated a panel at the Cybersecurity Workshop at Central European University on the role that information law will play in cybersecurity. (Thanks to Kate Coyer, Stefaan Verhulst, Monroe Price, and Roxana Radu for inviting me!) Here’s basically what I said: Cybersecurity may be the issue that leads states to re-fight the old battle [...]
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Paul Ohm has a terrific new paper out on SSRN, Broken Promises of Privacy: Responding to the Surprising Failure of Anonymization (forthcoming in UCLA Law Review). It discusses how statistical techniques have made it increasingly easy to re-identify anonymized data sets, and to apply that information to other identification problems (for example, taking information from [...]
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From blog post to journal article! I am pleased to report that the new issue of the University of Illinois Law Review includes my article, Disclosure, Endorsement, and Identity in Social Marketing. The ideas for the article began in posts on this blog, starting here and continuing here. Here’s the full abstract of the new [...]
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This isn’t exactly fast-breaking news, but since I wrote a long post last year about the Lori Drew case and then noted the judge’s decision to rescind her conviction, I wanted to point out that the judge has now issued a written opinion explaining his reasoning. Eric Goldman has some cogent analysis. Like Eric, I [...]
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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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In an astonishing overreaction, Horizon Realty Group, a large Chicago landlord, has filed a defamation lawsuit against a former tenant, Amanda Bonnen, over this tweet sent on her (now defunct) Twitter account: @JessB123 You should just come anyway. Who said sleeping in a moldy apartment was bad for you? Horizon realty thinks it’s ok. Assuming [...]
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