Law professor Dan Solove’s article, Fourth Amendment Pragmatism, generated a good amount of discussion among privacy advocates and the legal community. In one discussion over on Scott Greenfield’s Simple Justice blog, both Dan and law professor/former DOJ prosecutor Orin Kerr participated. Unlike some of us who think that Fourth Amendment case law has eroded Fourth…
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A Conversation with Loopt’s Sam Altman
Interesting interview of Sam Altman, Loopt’s 25-year-old co-founder by Bloomberg contributor Antone Gonsalves in Bloomberg BusinessWeek. Altman’s comments on age and privacy were particularly interesting to me: Why have location-based services such as Loopt failed to reach folks over age 30? Why haven’t mainstream consumers embraced the technology? Time and again, people over age 29…
Book offers tips on reclaiming privacy in the digital age
Byron Acohido of USA Today interviews Frank Ahearn, co-author of “How To Disappear: Erase Your Digital Footprint, Leave False Trails, And Vanish Without A Trace.” Here’s a snippet of the interview: TL: Google CEO Eric Schmidt has said that you should not go online if you have anything to hide. What do you think about…
Article: Dying for Privacy: Pitting Public Access Against Familial Interests In the Era of the Internet
Clay Calvert, Professor & Brechner Eminent Scholar in Mass Communication and Director of the Marion B. Brechner First Amendment Project at the University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, has an article in the Northwestern University Law Review Colloquy. Here’s how the article begins: “I just killed my two kids. . . . I drowned them. ….