Michael Zimmer, PhD, is a digital privacy and data ethics scholar at Marquette University
A group of legal, cultural, and social scholars have published a "Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Online Video", providing an important framework to help address the growing challenge of allowing fair use of online content in the…
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Similar to the Yale Information Society Project's "9.5 Theses" and CFP's "Letter to the Next President," the Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT) has created an issue document targeted to the next President and Congress: "The Internet in Transition: A…
On the heels of growing public awareness of how "large Web companies are learning more about people than ever from what they search for and do on the Internet, gathering clues about the tastes and preferences of a typical user…
Read More Proposed NY Law to Limit the Web Tracking also Requires Access to Data Collected
The German Constitutional Court, ruling on the constitutionality of secret online searches of computers by government agencies, has created a new "basic right to the confidentiality and integrity of information-technological systems" as derived from the German Constitution. The AP reports:…
This spring I am running a reading group at the Yale Information Society Project (but open to all) titled "Technology, Law, Society, Values and Design." The description and draft syllabus are below -- comments and suggestions are welcome! Technology, Law,…
Read More Yale ISP Reading Group: Technology, Law, Society, Values and Design
In many of my recent presentations on privacy and information policy, I've drawn on differences in the legal and regulatory frameworks applied to the flows of personal information in the United States compared to the European Union. In short, the…
Read More Privacy Protection in the Network Society: “Trading Up” or a “Race to the Bottom”?
Creative Commons recently celebrated its fifth birthday, and Larry Lessig announced some exciting developments (borrowing from his post): Current TV will start integrating CC licenses into their citizen created content system. CC0: CC will be releasing a beta protocol to…
One of my duties at the Information Society Project at Yale Law School has been to organize our weekly lunch speaker series. Last week we welcomed Samir Chopra, a philosopher who is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer…
I am unable to reconcile an inconsistency between the common appeal search engines make that data retention laws require them to store user search query histories, and what these laws (where enacted) actually require. For example, this post at Google's…
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On the heels of recent revelations that the FBI abused their power to issue national security letters for illegal domestic surveillance, the FBI now also admits that they have contracts with AT&T, Verizon and MCI to harvest phone records on…
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