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Gimme Shelter: International Political Asylum In The Information Age, Jacob Stafford
Gimme Shelter: International Political Asylum In The Information Age, Jacob Stafford
Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law
On June 5, 2013, an article in the Guardian revealed highly classified information about surveillance operations being performed by the United States National Security Administration (NSA). The source of this information was a former NSA contractor named Edward Snowden. After arriving in Moscow on June 23, Snowden spent the next forty days in the transit area of Sheremetyevo International Airport in a bizarre state of geopolitical purgatory. Eventually, Russia granted Snowden temporary asylum for one year, followed by a three-year residency permit. This Note uses Snowden's circumstance to consider the current state of international political asylum within the context of …
Fool's Gold: An Illustrated Critique Of Differential Privacy, Jane Bambauer, Krishnamurty Muralidhar, Rathindra Sarathy
Fool's Gold: An Illustrated Critique Of Differential Privacy, Jane Bambauer, Krishnamurty Muralidhar, Rathindra Sarathy
Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment & Technology Law
Differential privacy has taken the privacy community by storm. Computer scientists developed this technique to allow researchers to submit queries to databases without being able to glean sensitive information about the individuals described in the data. Legal scholars champion differential privacy as a practical solution to the competing interests in research and confidentiality, and policymakers are poised to adopt it as the gold standard for data privacy. It would be a disastrous mistake. This Article provides an illustrated guide to the virtues and pitfalls of differential privacy. While the technique is suitable for a narrow set of research uses, the …