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The Architecture Of Privacy: Remaking Privacy In Cyberspace, Lawrence Lessig
The Architecture Of Privacy: Remaking Privacy In Cyberspace, Lawrence Lessig
Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment & Technology Law
This is an essay about privacy. My aim is to understand privacy through these two very different ideas. Privacy, in the sense that I mean here, can be described by these two different ideas. It stands in competition with these ideas. It is that part of life that is left after one subtracts, as it were, the monitored and the searchable. A life where less is monitored is a life where more is private; and life where less can (legally or technologically) be searched is also a life where more is private. By understanding the technologies of these two different …
Filling The Black Hole Of Cyberspace: Legal Protections For Online Privacy, R. Craig Tolliver
Filling The Black Hole Of Cyberspace: Legal Protections For Online Privacy, R. Craig Tolliver
Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment & Technology Law
The Internet is a unique and wholly new medium of worldwide human communication. This pronouncement of the United States Supreme Court echoes what most of the American population has known for some time. The emergence of cyberspace has dramatically changed the nature of electronic communications, and consumers are conducting online transactions at a tremendous pace. While this revolution has obviously increased the amount and types of information available to American consumers, it has also achieved a different result: businesses now have access to an unprecedented amount of personal information. In turn, there exists a danger that this information will be …