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Draft June 16 , 2011 Forthcoming 114 West Virginia Law R eview * Assistant Professor, University of Louisville, Louis D. Brandeis School of Law; J.D., University of Michigan. The author extends thanks to the many scholars who helped with this piece. The author cannot overstate her appreciation for Nancy Levit ‘s review of earlier drafts. […]

[…] A police officer who has just pulled over a driver for speeding may query a database of driving records to determine if the driver has received speeding tickets in the past. A keyword search through a database of seized e -ma ils may reveal positive “hits” where the keyword appeared. In all of these […]

Repairing Online Reputation:    A New Multi-Modal Regulatory Approach  Jacqueline D Lipton, Ph.D. *    Abstract    In  today’s  interconnected  digital  society,  high  pro file  examples  of  online  abuses  abound.    Cyberbullies  lau nch  attacks  on  the  less  powerful,  often  significantly  d amaging  victims’ reputations.   Outside of reputational dam age, online  harassment, bullying and stalking has led to severe  emotional  distress, loss of employment, physical assault and  even death.   Recent  scholarship  has  identified  this  phenomenon  b ut  has  done  little  more  than  note  that  current  […]

[…] done. You interact with Siri by just saying, in your own words, what you want to do.” [FN140] Siri can help you search for and purchase movie tickets, for instance, and share informa- tion with friends, all through voice command. Particularly in the West, individuals spend a significant portion of their time in cars. […]

[…] pertinent information on basically any subject imaginable. This physical convenience is buttressed by the economic convenience provided by the Internet. E-consum ers can purchase anything from airline tickets to pet supplies online merely by placing items in an electronic shopping cart, entering payment information and providing delivery instructions. These purchases take mere moments compared […]

Chattering Laptops Tuomas Aura 1 , Janne Lindqvist 2 , Michael Roe 1 , Anish Mohammed 3 1 Microsoft Research, Cambridge, UK 2 Helsinki University of Technology, Finland 3 Royal Holloway, University of London, UK Abstract. Mobile computer users often have a false sense of anonymity when they connect to the Internet at cafes, hotels, […]

  THE BOUNDARIES OF PRIVACY HARM    M. Ryan Calo *   A BSTRACT     This  Essay  describes  the  outer  boundaries  and  core  properties  of  privacy  harm, an important, unique, but chronically under-t heorized injury.  I argue  that  the  vast  majority  of  privacy  harms  fall  into  j ust  two  categories.    The  subjective  category  of  privacy  harm  is  the  unwanted   perception  of  observation.    This  category  describes  unwelcome  men […]

[…] its associated data management practices were unknown . This is a problem, since states can easily use basic mathematical calculations based on RFID tracking to give speeding tickets and impli cate criminals. If people know that their data could be used in this way, it is far less lik ely that they would accept […]

[…] the New York Times Travel Section online, and reads an article about what to do during a weekend visit to Baltimore. An advertiser selling Baltimore Ori- oles tickets would love to target this user for an offer for baseball tickets. The ticket seller is likely to pay an advertising network a premium to deliver […]

[…] force, people still used fixed line telephones and postal mail to communicate. They searched for infor- mation for research and recreation in public libraries; and purchased flight tickets in travel agencies, music in (vinyl) record stores, and second hand products in flea markets. They watched TV shows and were obliged to wait an entire […]