Networks, the Internet, and Cloud Computing

Prediction, Preemption, Presumption: How Big Data Threatens Big Picture Privacy

Future search engines could use artificial intelligence (AI) and big data to predict users’ desires and needs. Governments and others could use big data to predict people’s behavior. This could undermine our right to travel, the presumption of innocence, and other rights.

Platform Performance Investment in the Presence of Network Externalities

Managers of platforms must decide whether to invest more in core platform performance or less, to reduce costs to third-party developers. This study creates a model for such investments based on the video game industry.

Peaches, Lemons, and Cookies: Designing Auction Markets with Dispersed Information

This technical article develops a mathematical model of search term auctions and presents some implications.

The Case for Online Obscurity

Information on the Internet can be hard to find. Internet users rely on obscurity to protect their privacy. But courts treat information posted online as public. Defining “obscurity” better could help courts recognize when users need more privacy protection.

The Right to Be Forgotten

The European Union (EU) has created a new privacy right, the right to be forgotten. Individuals can insist that information about themselves be deleted.

The Deciders: The Future of Privacy and Free Speech in the Age of Facebook and Google

Private companies make key decisions affecting privacy, or deciding what content appears online. Public opinion will often determine whether the courts will rule that some policies are unconstitutional.

Sustaining Privacy and Open Justice in the Transition to Online Court Records: A Multidisciplinary Inquiry

This article evaluates privacy issues and possible solutions for courts to transition from paper to digital records.

Social Networks, Privacy, and Freedom of Association: Data Empowerment vs. Data Protection

Social networks provide a platform for forming personal associations based on sharing information with other people, but the opportunity to broadly share information also raises privacy concerns. A free association doctrine modeled on the US concept of free speech is suggested, and then the doctrine is applied to several proposed privacy laws.

The Impact of News Aggregators on Internet News Consumption: The Case of Localization

This paper examines how the habits of news readers change when they can use an online news aggregator.

Network Neutrality on the Internet: A Two-Sided Market Analysis

This article describes conditions under which network neutrality is an economically optimal policy.