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I Know What You Did Last Summer: A User’S Guide For Internet Investigations, Sean O'Brien, Quinn O'Brien
I Know What You Did Last Summer: A User’S Guide For Internet Investigations, Sean O'Brien, Quinn O'Brien
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Coauthored with licensed private investigator Quinn O'Brien, this article provides important ethical considerations, practice tips, and technical advice about the preparation, execution, preservation, and follow-up investigation of subjects using the Internet.
Analysis Of Freedom Of Information For Its Effect On Society By Considering 2011, The Year Of The Arab Spring, Paul D. Callister, Kimberlee Everson
Analysis Of Freedom Of Information For Its Effect On Society By Considering 2011, The Year Of The Arab Spring, Paul D. Callister, Kimberlee Everson
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2011, the year of the Arab Spring, presents a unique opportunity to look back and study how the relative freedom and development of information environments affect stability in nations throughout the Middle East and world. Such study raises interesting questions about whether freedom of information and speech are ultimately stabilizing influences for society in terms of loyalty, violence and political unrest — questions all the more important as societies face the onslaught of the internet, mobile devices and cell phones. Are non-democratic regimes “better off” by monopolizing and controlling the flow of information over new information channels? Are democratic societies, …
Twenty-First Century Pillow-Talk: Applicability Of The Marital Communications Privilege To Electronic Mail, Mikah K. Thompson
Twenty-First Century Pillow-Talk: Applicability Of The Marital Communications Privilege To Electronic Mail, Mikah K. Thompson
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The marital privilege has two parts: the testimonial privilege and the communications privilege. Originally, the testimonial privilege prevented one spouse from testifying against another. According to the United States Supreme Court, spousal disqualification sprang from two canons of medieval jurisprudence: first, the rule that an accused was not permitted to testify in his own behalf because of his interest in the proceeding; second, the concept that husband and wife were one, and that since the woman had no recognized separate legal existence, the husband was that one. Thus, if a husband were not permitted to testify, then his wife, as …
The Internet, Regulation And The Market For Loyalties: An Economic Analysis Of Transborder Information Flow, Paul D. Callister
The Internet, Regulation And The Market For Loyalties: An Economic Analysis Of Transborder Information Flow, Paul D. Callister
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As the Internet has gained prevalence, attention has turned to its regulation. Indeed, regulation proves to be a unique and complex problem, given the Internet's lack of traditional borders and boundaries. Highlighting possible avenues of regulation, the author discusses neo-classical economic theory, specifically Monroe E. Price's market for loyalties theory. Although originally applied to the regulation of broadcasting, the author contends that the market for loyalties theory can also be applied to the Internet. Building on Professor Price's pioneering analysis, the article extends the theory to examine market elasticity's effect on the loss of monopoly control over information flow (as …