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Reforming The Law Of Reputation, Frank A. Pasquale
Reforming The Law Of Reputation, Frank A. Pasquale
Faculty Scholarship
Unfair and deceptive practices of controllers and processors of data have adversely affected many citizens. New threats to individuals’ reputations have seriously undermined the efficacy of extant regulation concerning health privacy, credit reporting, and expungement. The common thread is automated, algorithmic arrangements of information, which could render data properly removed or obscured in one records system, nevertheless highly visible or dominant in other, more important ones.
As policymakers reform the law of reputation, they should closely consult European approaches to what is now called the “right to be forgotten.” Health privacy law, credit reporting, and criminal conviction expungement need to …
A Randomized Experiment Assessing The Accuracy Of Microsoft's "Bing It On" Challenge, Ian Ayres, Emad H. Atiq, Sheng Li, Michelle Lu, Tom Maher, Christine Tsang
A Randomized Experiment Assessing The Accuracy Of Microsoft's "Bing It On" Challenge, Ian Ayres, Emad H. Atiq, Sheng Li, Michelle Lu, Tom Maher, Christine Tsang
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
In advertisements associated with its "Bing It On" campaign, Microsoft claimed that "people preferred Bing web search results nearly 2:1 over Google in blind comparison tests." We tested Microsoft's claims by way of a randomized experiment involving U.S.-based Amazon's. Mechanical Turk ("MTurk") subjects and conducted on Microsoft's own www.bingiton.com website. We found that (i) a statisticallysignificant majority of participants preferred Google search results to Bing search results (53% to 41%); and (ii) participants were significantly less likely to prefer Bing results when randomly assigned to use popular search terms or self-selected search terms instead of the search terms Microsoft recommends …
How The Ftc Could Beat Google, Robert H. Lande, Jonathan L. Rubin
How The Ftc Could Beat Google, Robert H. Lande, Jonathan L. Rubin
All Faculty Scholarship
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission is rumored to be deciding whether to bring a “pure Section 5” case against Google as a result of complaints that the company unfairly favors its own offerings over those of its rivals in its search results. But the case will fail miserably at the hands of a reviewing court and the agency will be confined to relatively non-controversial enforcement violations if the FTC fails to impose upon itself a tightly bounded and constrained legal framework that contains clear limiting principles. The only way a court will allow the FTC to pursue a pure Section …