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Regulating Real-World Surveillance, Margot E. Kaminski
Regulating Real-World Surveillance, Margot E. Kaminski
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A number of laws govern information gathering, or surveillance, by private parties in the physical world. But we lack a compelling theory of privacy harm that accounts for the state's interest in enacting these laws. Without a theory of privacy harm, these laws will be enacted piecemeal. Legislators will have a difficult time justifying the laws to constituents; the laws will not be adequately tailored to legislative interest; and courts will find it challenging to weigh privacy harms against other strong values, such as freedom of expression.
This Article identifies the government interest in enacting laws governing surveillance by private …
Government Speech And Political Courage, Helen Norton
Government Speech And Political Courage, Helen Norton
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This short essay addresses Walker v. Texas Div., Sons of Confederate Veterans, Inc., in which a divided Court upheld Texas's rejection of the Sons of Confederate Veterans' request for a specialty license plate that featured the Confederate flag. Although it agrees with the majority that specialty license plates can -- and often do -- reflect the government's own expression that the government should remain free to control without running afoul of the First Amendment, it argues that the Walker Court missed an important opportunity to refine its government speech doctrine. Not only has the Court yet to settle on a …
Outing Privacy, Scott Skinner-Thompson
Outing Privacy, Scott Skinner-Thompson
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The government regularly outs information concerning people's sexuality, gender identity, and HIV status. Notwithstanding the implications of such outings, the Supreme Court has yet to resolve whether the Constitution contains a right to informational privacy - a right to limit the government's ability to collect and disseminate personal information.
This Article probes informational privacy theory and jurisprudence to better understand the judiciary's reluctance to fully embrace a constitutional right to informational privacy. The Article argues that while existing scholarly theories of informational privacy encourage us to broadly imagine the right and its possibilities, often focusing on informational privacy's ability to …
How Do We Know When Speech Is Of Low Value?, Helen Norton
How Do We Know When Speech Is Of Low Value?, Helen Norton
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The Government's Lies And The Constitution, Helen Norton
The Government's Lies And The Constitution, Helen Norton
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Governments lie. They do so for many different reasons to a wide range of audiences on a variety of topics. Although courts and commentators have extensively explored whether and when the First Amendment permits the government to regulate lies told by private speakers, relatively little attention has yet been paid to the constitutional implications of the government's intentional falsehoods. This Article helps fill that gap by exploring when, if ever, the Constitution prohibits our government from lying to us.
The government’s lies can be devastating. This is the case, for example, of its lies told to resist legal and political …
A Few Thoughts On Free Speech Constitutionalism, Helen Norton
A Few Thoughts On Free Speech Constitutionalism, Helen Norton
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