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Data Subjects' Privacy Rights: Regulation Of Personal Data Retention And Erasure, Alexander Tsesis
Data Subjects' Privacy Rights: Regulation Of Personal Data Retention And Erasure, Alexander Tsesis
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The European Union's right to erasure came into effect May 25, 2018, as Article 17 of the General Data Protection Regulation ("GDPR"). Unlike the U.S. "marketplace of ideas" model of free speech, the GDPR gives greater weight to data subjects' privacy interests than to audiences' curiosity about others' intimate lives. The U.S. and EU models advance human thirst for knowledge through open and uninhibited debates, whereas the internet marketplace tends to favor social media companies' commercial interests: put more specifically, free speech is not entirely harmonious with the interests of social media intermediaries whose algorithms tend to favor companies' bottom …
Marketplace Of Ideas, Privacy, And The Digital Audience, Alexander Tsesis
Marketplace Of Ideas, Privacy, And The Digital Audience, Alexander Tsesis
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The availability of almost limitless sets of digital information has opened a vast marketplace of ideas. Information service providers like Facebook and Twitter provide users with an array of personal information about products, friends, acquaintances, and strangers. While this data enriches the lives of those who share content on the internet, it comes at the expense of privacy. Social media companies disseminate news, advertisements, and political messages, while also capitalizing on consumers' private shopping, surfing, and traveling habits. Companies like Cambridge Analytica, Amazon, and Apple rely on algorithmic programs to mash up and scrape enormous amounts of online and otherwise …
Categorizing Student Speech, Alexander Tsesis
Categorizing Student Speech, Alexander Tsesis
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Campus Speech And Harassment, Alexander Tsesis
Campus Speech And Harassment, Alexander Tsesis
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Multifactoral Free Speech, Alexander Tsesis
Multifactoral Free Speech, Alexander Tsesis
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This Article presents a multifactoral approach to free speech analysis. Difficult cases present a variety of challenges that require judges to weigh concerns for the protection of robust dialogue, especially about public issues, against concerns that sound in common law (such as reputation), statutory law (such as repose against harassment), and in constitutional law (such as copyright). Even when speech is implicated, the Court should aim to resolve other relevant individual and social issues arising from litigation. Focusing only on free speech categories is likely to discount substantial, and sometimes compelling, social concerns warranting reflection, analysis, and application. Examining the …