Richard Wronski reports that Illinois is enacting the “name and shame” approach to those who don’t pay their fines. That approach is already used in Texas and New York: Motorists who use the Illinois Tollway but refuse to pay tolls and fines may already have collection agents chasing them, but by the end of the…
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Fifty years ago today
Fifty years ago today, I wasn’t speaking to my parents. I was glued to the TV, angry at them that they had blocked me from going to Washington, D.C. for the march and demonstration in support of civil rights. The bi-racial couple across the street were going, and knowing that I was active in my…
My Dinner with General Alexander
Jennifer Granick writes: On July 30, 2013, I had the pleasure of having dinner with General Keith Alexander, Director of the National Security Agency. Just a few weeks earlier, NYU Law Professor Christopher Sprigman and I had called the NSA’s activities“criminal” in the digital pages of the New York Times, so I thought it was particularly…
Digital Personae and Profiles in Law: Protecting Individuals’ Rights in Online Contexts
Arnold Roosendaal has uploaded his doctoral dissertation, conducted at Tilburg University, to SSRN. Here’s the abstract: Every individual is represented in digital form in numerous data sets. Commercial companies use these digital representations as a basis for making decisions that affect the individual. This has implications for privacy and autonomy of the individual and the…