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Unfair Warning: Breach Notification In The Fcc’S Enhanced Telephone Records Safeguards, Stephen L. Markus

Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy

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Accidental Privacy Spills, James Grimmelmann

James Grimmelmann

The realm of privacy law has more crimes than criminals, more wrongs than wrongdoers. Some invasions of privacy are neither intentional nor negligent; it's easy to recognize the harm, but hard to pin the blame. Laurie Garrett attended the World Economic Forum as a journalist and wrote a private email to a few close friends, only to see that email end up on a widely-read weblog.

This essay tells the story of that inevitable accident: an "accident" in that it needn't have happened, but "inevitable" in that there's no principled way to prevent similar misunderstandings from recurring, again and again …