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2015

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California Western School of Law

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Internet Giants As Quasi-Governmental Actors And The Limits Of Contractual Consent, Nancy Kim, D.A. Jeremy Telman Jan 2015

Internet Giants As Quasi-Governmental Actors And The Limits Of Contractual Consent, Nancy Kim, D.A. Jeremy Telman

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Although the government’s data-mining program relied heavily on information and technology that the government received from private companies, relatively little of the public outrage generated by Edward Snowden’s revelations was directed at those private companies. We argue that the mystique of the Internet giants and the myth of contractual consent combine to mute criticisms that otherwise might be directed at the real data-mining masterminds. As a result, consumers are deemed to have consented to the use of their private information in ways that they would not agree to had they known the purposes to which their information would be put …


Flexibility And Stability In Contracts, Thomas D. Barton, Helena Haapio, Tatiana Borisova Jan 2015

Flexibility And Stability In Contracts, Thomas D. Barton, Helena Haapio, Tatiana Borisova

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