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Judging Journalism: The Turn Toward Privacy And Judicial Regulation Of The Press, Amy Gajda Aug 2009

Judging Journalism: The Turn Toward Privacy And Judicial Regulation Of The Press, Amy Gajda

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Saving Facebook, James Grimmelmann Jan 2009

Saving Facebook, James Grimmelmann

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This Article provides the first comprehensive analysis of the law and policy of privacy on social network sites, using Facebook as its principal example. It explains how Facebook users socialize on the site, why they misunderstand the risks involved, and how their privacy suffers as a result. Facebook offers a socially compelling platform that also facilitates peer-to-peer privacy violations: users harming each others’ privacy interests. These two facts are inextricably linked; people use Facebook with the goal of sharing some information about themselves. Policymakers cannot make Facebook completely safe, but they can help people use it safely.

The Article makes …