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Accommodating Technological Innovation: Identity, Genetic Testing And The Internet, Gaia Bernstein
Accommodating Technological Innovation: Identity, Genetic Testing And The Internet, Gaia Bernstein
Vanderbilt Law Review
To evaluate the need for legal change stemming from technological innovation, we need to look beyond the accommodations of specific rules to the impact of technological innovation on social structures, institutes and values. In this Article I study how social tensions created by recent technological innovations produce a need to elevate legal interest from the shadows of legal discourse into the forefront of legal debate. Specifically, I examine two innovations that are exerting significant influence on our lives-genetic testing and the Internet-and their impact on our normative conception of identity. This socially oriented approach leads to several insights.
First, I …
A Traitor In Our Midst: Is It Your Tivo?, Teresa W. Chan
A Traitor In Our Midst: Is It Your Tivo?, Teresa W. Chan
Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment & Technology Law
Part I of this Note provides a backdrop of the different aspects of privacy law, focusing on the federal statutory schemes that are applicable to the issue of information gathering and the different possible uses of that information as a violation of privacy rights that have appeared in similar technology cases up to this point in time. This section will also focus on the capabilities of TiVo in more depth.
Part II of the Note examines both of TiVo's questionable actions: first, whether gathering information to sell to advertisers and networks in the form of aggregate data violates privacy rights; …