Category: Misc

Michael Birnhack writes: Privacy allows us to be a hypocrite, and this is a good thing too. That is the intriguing argument laid down by Stephen Taylor in his notes towards a theory of privacy. He emphasises the importance of the home as the quintessential space for freedom of thought—“the privacy of our own skulls”,…

Omer Tene writes: I’ve just returned from a week at the Schloss Dagstuhl Leibniz Center for Informatics, where I attended a “Perspectives Workshop” on “Online Privacy: Towards Informational Self-Determination on the Internet”. […] Last week’s session included industry leaders such as Caspar Bowden from Microsoft, Jan Camenisch from IBM, Claire Vishik from Intel, and Alma…

Julian Sanchez writes: Reading Orin Kerr’s new paper outlining an “equilibrium-adjustment theory” of the Fourth Amendment, I found myself reflecting on how thoroughly the language of “balancing” pervades our thinking about legal and political judgment. The very words “reasonable” and “rational” are tightly linked to “ratio”—which is to say, to relative magnitude or balance. We…

Daphne Guerrero blogs on the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada. There truly is an app for everything. Recently, the digital world has been aflutter with news of the first-ever app approved by the Catholic Church – Confession, an app that helps Catholics prepare for the sacrament of confession by guiding the user through…