Category: Misc

Michael B. Farrell reports: Two luminaries of the Boston tech community have contributed $1 million to launch an initiative at the American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts meant to safeguard privacy in an era when government agencies have greater access than ever before to personal data. The initial donation from Paul Sagan, former chief executive…

Lior Strahilevitz has an article in Harvard Law Review, Vol. 113, No. 1, 2013: Abstract: Privacy law creates winners and losers. The distributive implications of privacy rules are often very significant, but they are also subtle. Policy and academic debates over privacy rules tend to de-emphasize their distributive dimensions, and one result is an impoverished…

Thanks to Danielle Citron, who reminds us that the 2013 edition of Dan Solove and Paul Schwartz’s Privacy Law Fundamentals is out now. And it’s not exactly Gangnam style, but check out their promo:

Senator Rand Paul did something noteworthy yesterday – he delayed John Brennan’s confirmation as director of the CIA with an old-fashioned filibuster to make a point about the use of drones for targeted killing of Americans on U.S. soil. For almost 13 hours – with some quick breaks while fellow Senators helped him out by asking…