Henry N. Ess III Chair Lecture Notes
Notes for a chair lecture at Harvard Law School on the Path of Legal Information, the development of new digital access, and improvements for teaching, learning, and research.
Privacy
Joel Reidenberg: Transparent Citizens and the Rule of Law
Prof. Joel Reidenberg (Fordham Law; director of the Center on Law and Information Policy) starts out a luncheon talk at the Berkman Center’s Law Lab with a provocative opening theme: Transparency challenges the very existence of the Rule of Law. Some hasty/live-blogged notes follow: As a practical matter, in the cloud era, we’ve lost the … Read more
Julie Cohen: Configuring the Networked Self
At the Berkman Center, we are hearing a preview of key elements of Prof. Julie Cohen‘s forthcoming book, Configuring the Networked Self.  Some hasty live-blog notes follow: Prof. Cohen tells us that there are two disconnects that she starts with: 1) there are lots of invocations of “freedom” being floated around, but many of the … Read more
Reader Privacy Event at UNC-Chapel Hill
Anne Klinefelter, the beloved law library director at UNC-Chapel Hill (you should hear her dean introduce her; really!), is hosting a Data Privacy Day event on reader privacy. She makes the case in her opening panel remarks that, if we wish to translate library practices with respect to privacy into a digital world, we need … Read more
Tidbits from Navigate 2008 Day One
It’s Day One at Navigate 2008. Trevor Hughes and his crack team at the IAPP have established a space for thinking not about what’s urgeny, but about what’s important when it comes to privacy. The key for the event is to think big about privacy. The goal is to contribute to the global dialogue. (For … Read more
Navigating Privacy
Jonathan Zittrain and I are headed up to seacoast New Hampshire to be the “curators” of the IAPP’s new executive forum, Navigate, for the first few days of the week. It’s a beautifully organized program and a terrific line-up. It promises to be provocative and a lot of fun. Privacy turned out to be a … Read more
Daniel Solove's The Future of Reputation
The first book I’ve read in full on my Amazon Kindle is Daniel Solove‘s “The Future of Reputation: Gossip, Rumor, and Privacy on the Internet.” It’s a book I’ve been meaning to read since it came out; it did not disappoint. I was glad to have the joint experience of reading a first full book … Read more
Sears and Badware
Tonight, we at StopBadware are releasing a report that finds that Sears Holding Corporation’s MySHC Community application is badware. (We also blogged our pending review of the application a few days ago.) Our concerns are these: 1) The software does not fully, accurately, clearly, and conspicuously disclose the principal and significant features and functionality of … Read more
Cookie Crumbles Contest: Make a Video, Help Consumers, Win Cash
Have fun and help raise awareness about how the Internet really works — and possibly earn a trip to DC and $5000 if you’re really good at it! The Berkman Center, StopBadware, Google, Medium, and EDVentures present Cookie Crumbles. It’s a fun contest for people who like to make short, humorous (yet meaningful) videos and … Read more
Ira Rubinstein on Microsoft’s Corporate Privacy Guidelines
Ira Rubinstein is here with us at the Berkman Center today to talk about Microsoft’s corporate policies on privacy. Ira was joined yesterday here by Brad Smith, Microsoft’s General Counsel, who spoke last night on the topic of innovation, interoperability and IP, and Annmarie Levin, like Ira an Associate General Counsel and with whom we’ve … Read more