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Using Architectural Constraints And Game Theory To Regulate International Cyberspace Behavior, Van N. Nguy
Using Architectural Constraints And Game Theory To Regulate International Cyberspace Behavior, Van N. Nguy
San Diego International Law Journal
The debate over whether cyberspace can or should be regulated is essentially dead. This is the conclusion being taught in law schools today. The battle between Judge Frank Easterbrook and Professor Lawrence Lessig over "laws" and "horses", infamous among cyberspace legal scholars, became irrelevant when geographically-based governments began regulating Internet related activities. However, debate over how the Internet should be regulated continues. One way of framing this debate is in terms of deciding how to regulate behavior in cyberspace. Professor Lessig postulated four kinds of constraints regulate behavior: (1) social norms, (2) markets, (3) law, and (4) architecture. This comment …
Online Surveillance: Remembering The Lessons Of The Wiretap Act, Susan Freiwald
Online Surveillance: Remembering The Lessons Of The Wiretap Act, Susan Freiwald
Susan Freiwald
This Article explores those features of electronic surveillance that have made it challenging to regulate effectively. In balancing interests, lawmakers must create a workable law for an exceedingly complex topic, rein in law enforcement agents without crippling them, and draw a line between prohibited and permitted conduct despite society's ambivalence about surveillance. This Article demonstrates that lawmakers met those challenges when they regulated traditional wiretapping, but they have failed to meet them in the online context. It argues that the law should extend the significant restrictions on wiretapping to online surveillance, just as judges did in the case of video …