Every so often, I try to spend a bit of time on SSRN to see what new articles are available that might be of interest. Here are seven recently posted abstracts, below. For most of them, the full-text version is also available as a free download: Finkin, Matthew W., On Restating the Common Law of…
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Levi’s tags: more than just your jeans
I’m confident that Levis.com is not the only web site of concern, but this case study suggests that the public really often has no clue how their information is being tracked or used: Dwyer, Catherine Ann, Behavioral Targeting: A Case Study of Consumer Tracking on Levis.com (August 6, 2009). Abstract: Behavioral targeting is an online…
Google to abide with Swiss court ruling
Google will comply with an expected Swiss court ruling into whether its Street View web service fails to protect people’s privacy by showing their faces and licence plates, the company and Swiss authorities said. The company is accused of failing to obscure such sensitive images from its photo mapping application sufficiently and setting cameras at…
French court rules against Google over book copying
Sophie Hardach reports: A Paris court on Friday found U.S. Internet giant Google guilty of violating copyright by digitising books and putting extracts online, following a legal challenge by major French publishers. The court found against Google after the La Martiniere group, which controls the highbrow Editions du Seuil publishing house, argued that publishers and…