Erin Miller writes: The following essay by Jamal Greene is part of our thirty-day series on John Paul Stevens. Greene clerked for Justice Stevens during the 2006 Term, and is now a law professor at Columbia University. In the months leading up to his confirmation hearing, news emerged that in 1981, as a fledgling lawyer…
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Comparing Ease of Deleting Accounts
Michael Zimmer writes about some comparison research he performed: Given the recent focus on increasing numbers of users deleting their Facebook accounts due to the recent privacy disaster, and some of the past barriers that made it hard to accomplish at all, I decided to perform a comparison of the relative ease/difficulty of deleting one’s…
Facebook, MySpace Confront Privacy Loophole (updated)
Emily Steel and Jessica E. Vascellaro report: Facebook, MySpace and several other social-networking sites have been sending data to advertising companies that could be used to find consumers’ names and other personal details, despite promises they don’t share such information without consent. The practice, which most of the companies defended, sent user names or ID…
NYCLU Class-Action Lawsuit Challenges NYPD’s Practice of Keeping Innocent New Yorkers in Stop-and-Frisk Database
The New York Civil Liberties Union today filed a class-action lawsuit challenging the NYPD’s practice of keeping the personal information of innocent New Yorkers who have been stopped and frisked by police officers in an electronic police database that the department uses for criminal investigations. “Innocent New Yorkers who are the victims of unjustified police…