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Privacy Concern In Google Voice Call Recording, Michael Katz, James Tuthill

Michael Katz

The Federal Communications Commission, taking note of AT&T's complaint, has written to Google with questions about its call blocking. But the implications for our privacy of software-managed call services like Google Voice are a much greater threat to consumers, and that's where the FCC should direct its energy - immediately.

Parcerias Público-Privadas No Setor Da Saúde, Carolina Altoé Velasco, Manoel Messias Peixinho

Carolina Altoé Velasco

Contemporaneamente é visível a importância conferida às questões de saúde pública. A fim de que o desenvolvimento de políticas públicas se torne efetivo, é necessário que haja esforços das esferas de governo para a efetiva melhoria da qualidade de vida da sociedade de modo equânime. Com base nas deficiências que o setor da saúde apresenta, o artigo propõe a possibilidade de implementação das parcerias públicoprivadas na área da saúde, de forma a atrair o setor privado a investir em projetos de interesse comum. Em outros termos, significa aproximar a iniciativa privada a fim de que seja fornecido o seu expertise …

Aplicabilidade Das Parcerias Público-Privadas Nas Técnicas De Reprodução Assistida Direcionadas A Portadores Do Vírus Hiv – Aids No Âmbito Brasileiro, Carolina Altoé Velasco

Carolina Altoé Velasco

No abstract provided.

A Defense Of Stem Cell Research, Gregory Dolin

Gregory Dolin

Isolation of human embryonic stem cells in 1998 simultaneously caused great excitement and concern in the scientific community and the population at large. The great promises that the discovery held were viewed with suspicion by many, because the isolation of these stem cells involved destruction of an embryo, and thus, according to some, destruction of innocent human life. Full ten years later, the debate still rages. The present Article proposes a solution to this debate.The solution concedes that the embryo is a human being entitled to full moral protection. Having made that concession, however, the Article proceeds to argue that …

Legal And Ethical Implications Of Employee Location Monitoring, Gundars Kaupins, Robert Minch

Robert P. Minch

Location technologies allow employers to monitor the location of employees. The technologies range from global positioning systems able to determine outdoor locations worldwide to sensor networks able to determine locations within buildings. Few international laws and no American laws directly address location monitoring. International privacy laws, the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, the USA Patriot Act and other laws involving Internet and e-mail monitoring might provide the pattern for future location monitoring legislation. Ethical considerations such as privacy, accuracy, inconsistency, security, and reputation also may affect future legislation. In writing corporate policies governing location monitoring, the employer’s business interests may outweigh …

Luces Y Sombras De La "Nueva" Corte Suprema (2003 - 2009), Horacio M. Lynch

Horacio M. LYNCH

Balance y análisis crítico de lo actuado por la NCSN desde que comenzó el cambio en su integración en 2003, hasta la fecha del informe en 2009, en las distintas dimensiones de su labor, su función de control de la constitucionalidad, como el Tribunal de última instancia de la Nación, y como cabeza del Poder Judicial, y en su preocupación por la Justicia del país. Analiza lo que hizo y lo que no hizo, se incluye un balance, propuestas y líneas de trabajo, e información.

The Legal And Practical Aspects Of Atm's In Tanzania, Daudi Mwita Nyamaka Mr.

Daudi Mwita Nyamaka Mr.

The concern of our study was to examine the legal and practical aspects of ATMs in Tanzania. The major problems that were being examined are; the 24 hours operation on ATMs vis-à-vis system failure or error and the system of one bank allowing cardholders of another bank to use its ATMs. With the first problem, all banks in Tanzania with ATMs have attractive advertisements to customers that affirm sufficient services in any time of the day but in reality, the machines usually fail to respond the instructions of the cardholder regardless the fact that the cardholder inserts the card and …

Caméras De Surveillance : La Cohabitation Légale Reste Houleuse…, Franck Dumortier

Franck Dumortier

La nouvelle loi du 21 mars 2007 relative à l’installation et à l’utilisation de caméras de surveillance (ci après « loi caméras) est loin d’être la seule norme juridique réglant l’utilisation des caméras en Belgique. Outre cette loi existent, en effet, un certain nombre de textes généraux et particuliers ayant une incidence normative sur l’installation et l’utilisation des yeux électroniques. Il s’agit notamment de la loi du 8 décembre 1992 relative à la protection de la vie privée à l’égard des traitements de données à caractère personnel , de la loi du 2 septembre 2005 simplifiant la loi du 10 …

Facebook And Risks To De-Contextualization Of Information, Franck Dumortier

Franck Dumortier

No abstract provided.

Digital Divide Older People And Online Legal Advice, Subhajit Basu, Joe Duffy, Helen Davey

Subhajit Basu

Many older people are not aware where and when advice is available. Furthermore they may be unaware that advice is needed

Cuarto Congreso Nacional De Organismos Públicos Autónomos, Bruno L. Costantini García

Bruno L. Costantini García

Memorias del Cuarto Congreso Nacional de Organismos Públicos Autónomos

"El papel de los Organismos Públicos Autónomos en la Consolidación de la Democracia"

Fiber Optic Foxes: Virtual Objects And Virtual Worlds Through The Lens Of Pierson V. Post And The Law Of Capture, John W. Nelson

John W. Nelson

Virtual worlds are more successfully blurring the lines between real and virtual. This tempts many to try and equate virtual property with tangible property. Such an equation creates problems when the common law of property is applied to virtual objects over which users can not possess complete dominion and control. The result is a conversion of the tangible resources that support virtual worlds into a virtual commons. Accordingly, the common law of contracts, rather than that of property, should be used to govern transactions between a user and owner of a virtual world.

Comments Submitted To The Us Patent Office On Deferred Examination For Patent Applications, Ron D. Katznelson

Ron D. Katznelson

No abstract provided.

From Making Money Without Doing Evil To Doing Good Without Handouts: The Google.Org Experiment In Philanthropy, Shruti Rana

Shruti Rana

From its inception, Google has promoted itself as a company that dares to be different in its pursuit of innovation and information. The company’s new philanthropic arm, Google.org, promises to be just as pioneering in its search for social returns through the mechanism of profit. This Essay takes a closer look at the Google.org experiment in philanthropy. It argues that Google.org’s uniqueness lies not in its “hybrid” model that merges for-profit and charitable aims, but in the ways it seeks to use market mechanisms to harness the social benefits of information technology for the public good. Google.org also has enormous …

Fulfilling Technology's Promise: Enforcing The Rights Of Women Caught In The Global High-Tech Underclass, Shruti Rana

Shruti Rana

In the early 1980s, Malaysian women working in electronics factories began to experience hallucinations and seizures. Factory bosses manipulated their employees' religious and cultural beliefs, convincing the women that their bodies were inhabited by demons. In this manner, they avoided confronting the more likely causes: the rigid, paternalistic work environment, the intense production pressures placed on the women, and the lengthy shifts and potentially hazardous conditions that the women were forced to endure. This example illustrates the use of gender, religion, and to control and exploit women's labor in the high-tech industry. Unfortunately, this is not an isolated situation. This …

Arguing Patentability With Motif Analysis And Gene Sequence Alignments, Brendan O. Baggot

Brendan O. Baggot

No abstract provided.

Survey Of The Law Of Cyberspace: Electronic Contracting Cases 2006-2007, Juliet Moringiello, William Reynolds

William L. Reynolds

In this annual survey, we discuss the electronic contracting cases decided between July 1, 2006 and June 30, 2007. In the article, we discuss issues involving contract formation, procedural unconscionability, the scope of UETA and E-SIGN, and contracts formed by automated agents. We conclude that whatever doctrinal doubt judges and scholars may once have had about applying standard contract law to electronic transactions, those doubts have now been largely resolved, and that the decisions involving electronic contracts are following the general law of contracts pretty closely.

Survey Of The Law Of Cyberspace: Electronic Contracting Cases 2005-2006, Juliet M. Moringiello, William L. Reynolds

William L. Reynolds

This article analyzes the judicial decisions involving Internet and other electronic contracts during the period from July 1, 2005 to June 30, 2006. The authors explain that this year's cases show a maturation of the common law of electronic contracts in that the judges are beginning to recognize the realities of electronic communications and to apply traditional contract principles to those communications unless the realities of the technology justifies a different result.

Digital Ethics In Bridging Digital Divide, Subhajit Basu

Subhajit Basu

Our information society is creating parallel systems: one for those with income, education and literacy connections, giving plentiful information at low cost and high speed: the other are those without connections, blocked by high barriers of time, cost and uncertainty and dependent upon outdated information. Hence it can be expressed the DD is nothing but a reflection of social divide. The question is what is the best strategy to construct an information society that is ethically sound? Most people have the views that ICT and underlying ideologies are neutral. This Technology has become so much naturalized that it can no …

How To Fix The Google Book Search Settlement, James Grimmelmann

James Grimmelmann

The proposed settlement in the Google Book Search case should be approved with strings attached. The project will be immensely good for society, and the proposed deal is a fair one for Google, for authors, and for publishers. The public interest demands, however, that the settlement be modified first. It creates two new entities—the Books Rights Registry Leviathan and the Google Book Search Behemoth—with dangerously concentrated power over the publishing industry. Left unchecked, they could trample on consumers in any number of ways. We the public have a right to demand that those entities be subject to healthy, pro-competitive oversight, …

Les Aspects Légaux De La Vidéosurveillance En Belgique: Analyse De La Loi Du 21 Mars 2007, Franck Dumortier

Franck Dumortier

No abstract provided.

Droit À La Vie Privée Et "Cloud Computing", Franck Dumortier

Franck Dumortier

No abstract provided.

Open Source Software Licensing Patterns, Halina Kaminski, Mark Perry

Mark Perry

No abstract provided.

Three Separate And Distinct Spheres: Patents, Regulation And Liability, Drew Kershen

Drew L. Kershen

No abstract provided.

Artfully Discriminating: How Hall V. Nalco Co. Applies Title Vii To Adverse Employment Actions Based On Assisted Reproduction Technologies, Patrick F. Madden

Patrick F. Madden

No abstract provided.

Etat Des Droits De L'Homme En Matière De Fichage Et De Respect Du Droit À La Vie Privée, Franck Dumortier

Franck Dumortier

Le déploiement de nouvelles technologies de l’information et de la communication lié à certains développements sociopolitiques contemporains défient la liberté individuelle en ce qu’ils induisent un type de contrôle particulier communément appelé « fichage ». Ce phénomène, qui s’est considérablement amplifié ces dernières années, menace tout particulièrement le droit au respect à la vie privée en raison de plusieurs de ses tendances récentes a priori hétérogènes les unes aux autres mais qui pourtant se renforcent entre elles : l’utilisation de technologies d’identification réputées plus précises et plus fiables, un recours accru à la technologie RFID (identification par radio-fréquences) permettant la …

Patenting Strategies Under A Proposed First-To-File Patent System, Ron D. Katznelson

Ron D. Katznelson

No abstract provided.

Rethinking Anticircumvention's Interoperability Policy, Aaron K. Perzanowski

Aaron K. Perzanowski

Interoperability is widely touted for its ability to spur incremental innovation, increase competition and consumer choice, and decrease barriers to accessibility. In light of these attributes, intellectual property law generally permits follow-on innovators to create products that interoperate with existing systems, even without permission. The anticircumvention provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) represent a troubling departure from this policy, resulting in patent-like rights to exclude technologies that interoperate with protected platforms. Although the DMCA contains internal safeguards to preserve interoperability, judicial misinterpretation and a narrow textual focus on software-to-software interoperability render those safeguards largely ineffective. Subjecting restrictions on …

International Harmonization Of Regulation Of Nanomedicine, Gary E. Marchant, Douglas J. Sylvester, Kenneth W. Abbott, Tara Lynn Danforth

Gary E. Marchant

Nanomedicine holds enormous promise for the improved prevention, detection and treatment of disease. Yet, at the same time, countervailing concerns about the potential safety risks of nanotechnologies generally, and nanomedical products specifically, threaten to derail or at least delay the introduction and commercial viability of many nanomedicine applications. All around the globe, national governments are struggling with balancing these competing benefits and risks of nanotechnology in the medical and other sectors. It is becoming increasingly clear that reasonable, effective and predictable regulatory structures will be critical to the successful implementation of nanotechnology. The question examined in this paper is whether …

International Harmonization Of Regulation Of Nanomedicine, Gary E. Marchant, Douglas J. Sylvester, Kenneth W. Abbott, Tara Lynn Danforth

Gary E. Marchant

Nanomedicine holds enormous promise for the improved prevention, detection and treatment of disease. Yet, at the same time, countervailing concerns about the potential safety risks of nanotechnologies generally, and nanomedical products specifically, threaten to derail or at least delay the introduction and commercial viability of many nanomedicine applications. All around the globe, national governments are struggling with balancing these competing benefits and risks of nanotechnology in the medical and other sectors. It is becoming increasingly clear that reasonable, effective and predictable regulatory structures will be critical to the successful implementation of nanotechnology. The question examined in this paper is whether …