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It's About Time: Privacy, Information Life Cycles, And The Right To Be Forgotten, Meg Leta Ambrose Aug 2012

It's About Time: Privacy, Information Life Cycles, And The Right To Be Forgotten, Meg Leta Ambrose

Meg Leta Ambrose

The current consensus is that information, once online, is there forever. Content permanence has led many European countries, the European Union, and even the United States to establish a right to be forgotten to protect citizens from the shackles of the past presented by the Internet. But, the Internet has not defeated time, and information, like everything, gets old, decays, and dies, even online. Quite the opposite of permanent, the Web cannot be self-preserving. One study from the field of content persistence, a body of research that has been almost wholly overlooked by legal scholars, found that 85% of content …


Where The Federalist Approach Makes No Sense, Recent Developments Call For Reform Of Federal Gaming Laws, Yannick Adler Jun 2012

Where The Federalist Approach Makes No Sense, Recent Developments Call For Reform Of Federal Gaming Laws, Yannick Adler

Yannick Adler

Recent developments in mobile technology (marketing and simple broadcasting) call for a change in the patch work approach of American gaming laws. Federal action is becoming inevitable. Recent court cases and out of court settlements show that substantial questions of interstate sweepstakes’ law remain unsettled. Where mobile technology neither cares about state borders nor about specific state laws it will be impossible to keep mobile sweepstakes from traveling through the country, just as a participant carries his cell phone across the border. The problem is intensified by the variance in defining common terms as lottery, sweepstakes, and contests, where a …