Evolving Property Rights In Domain Names,
2010
Seton Hall Law
Evolving Property Rights In Domain Names, Jeffrey R. Wiedmann
Student Works
No abstract provided.
Privacy As Product Safety,
2010
Cornell Law School
Privacy As Product Safety, James Grimmelmann
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
Online social media confound many of our familiar expectations about privacy. Contrary to popular myth, users of social software like Facebook do care about privacy, deserve it, and have trouble securing it for themselves. Moreover, traditional database-focused privacy regulations on the Fair Information Practices model, while often worthwhile, fail to engage with the distinctively social aspects of these online services.
Instead, online privacy law should take inspiration from a perhaps surprising quarter: product-safety law. A web site that directs users' personal information in ways they don't expect is a defectively designed product, and many concepts from products liability law could …
