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ArticleVol. 95 · Iss. 6
Candides and Cassandras: Technology and Free Speech on the Roberts Court
John Roberts assumed his position as Chief Justice of the United States just prior to the commencement of the October 2005 Term of the…
Ashutosh Bhagwat -
NoteVol. 95 · Iss. 4
Shielding Children from Pornography by Incentivizing Private Choice
In March of 2016, Playboy stopped publishing images of naked women in their magazines. According to the company’s chief executive, Scott Flanders, “[the] battle…
Karen Hinkley -
ArticleVol. 95 · Iss. 1
Privacy, Poverty, and Big Data: A Matrix of Vulnerabilities for Poor Americans
This Article examines the matrix of vulnerabilities that low-income people face as a result of the collection and aggregation of big data and the…
Mary Madden, Michele Gilman, Karen Levy & Alice Marwick -
ArticleVol. 96 · Iss. 6
Safe Social Spaces
Technologies that mediate social interaction can put our privacy and our safety at risk. Harassment, intimate partner violence and surveillance, data insecurity, and revenge…
Ari Ezra Waldman -
ArticleVol. 96 · Iss. 6
The Pathologies of Digital Consent
Consent permeates both our law and our lives—particularly in the digital context. Consent is the foundation of the relationships we have with search engines,…
Neil Richards & Woodrow Hartzog -
ArticleVol. 96 · Iss. 6
Trustworthy Privacy Indicators: Grades, Labels, Certifications, And Dashboards
Despite numerous groups’ efforts to score, grade, label, and rate the privacy of websites, apps, and network-connected devices, these attempts at privacy indicators have,…
Joel R. Reidenberg, N. Cameron Russell, Vlad Herta, William Sierra-Rocafort & Thomas B. Norton -
ArticleVol. 96 · Iss. 6
Privacy Governance for Institutional Trust (Or Are Privacy Violations Akin to Insider Trading?)
Currently, we frame individuals online as in a series of exchanges with specific firms, and privacy, accordingly, is governed to ensure trust within those…
Kirsten Martin -
ArticleVol. 96 · Iss. 6
Privacy’s Past: The Ancient Concept and Its Implications for The Current Law of Privacy
Privacy is a mysterious concept. The more apparent its significance in the real world becomes, the more obscure the core and the limitations of…
Keigo Komamura -
ArticleVol. 96 · Iss. 6
The Ironic Privacy Act
This Article contends that the Privacy Act of 1974, a law intended to engender trust in government records, can be implemented in a way…
Margaret Hu -
ArticleVol. 96 · Iss. 6
Why Sexual Privacy Matters for Trust
Every generation has preferred modes of self-disclosure. Not long ago, lovers revealed their thoughts, desires, and secrets over the phone and in letters. Today,…
Danielle Keats Citron -
NoteVol. 96 · Iss. 3
A Lawyer’s Divorce: Will Decentralized Ledgers and Smart Contracts Succeed in Cutting Out the Middleman?
Society is progressing at a rapid pace. As math and science evolve, new technologies begin to utilize these advances and create something novel. These…
Charlotte R. Young -
NoteVol. 96 · Iss. 2
Protecting the Democratic Role of the Press: A Legal Solution to Fake News
It is difficult to discuss the 2016 presidential election without including the impact of fake news in the conversation, and most commentators deplore the…
Andrea Butler