Peter Fleischer writes: There’s an entire, vibrant privacy conference business. There are privacy conferences somewhere in the world every week of the year. Some are commercial, some are taxpayer-funded. Why are they so boring? Because they take one of the most interesting topics in the world, privacy, and discuss and debate it from an insular…
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PETs, Law and Surveillance
Omer Tene writes: … the two frameworks for privacy protection, information privacy and constitutional privacy are premised on diametrically opposed conceptions of a data controller as a hero (information privacy) or villain (constitutional privacy). This tension is manifest, for example, in the highly contentious “third party doctrine”, which has taken hold in US privacy law in…
A rose by any other name: The curious politics of privacy newspeak
Simon Davies writes: My friend and colleague Robert Ellis Smith was kind enough recently to reprint my “twenty privacy principles that they never taught you at school” blog in his excellent US publication Privacy Journal. I’ve subsequently received a few messages suggesting that I should consider writing about the new language of privacy. This is…
Recording Romney, Part Two
The second part of Jeffrey P. Hermes’ analysis of the legality of recording Mitt Romney at a private fundraiser is now up on Citizen Media Law Project (Part One here). What a great example of information being freely available on the Internet. Kudos to Jeff Hermes and CMLP for informing those of us who want…