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Restricting Speech to Protect It
Attitudes to cyber harassment have changed. Lawmakers, law enforcement officers, and the public recognize that online stalking, threats, and “revenge porn” interferes with victim’s ability to speak and engage online.
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Danielle Citron |
2019 |
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More Than Money: Correlation Among Worker Demographics, Motivations, and Participation in Online Labor Market
Demographic factors such as age, gender, education and income sources explain participation in online labor markets such as Amazon’s Mechanical Turk. Men and women feel equal pressure to earn money, but schedule work differently.
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Mary L. Gray, Siddharth Suri, Wei-Chu Chen |
2019 |
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Big Data, Health Law, and Bioethics
Big data is expected to transform health care and medicine. Today’s ethical guidelines and laws may not adequately protect users against threats to privacy and the risk of discrimination. Third-party firms may function as go-betweens for patients and health care providers.
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Urs Gasser, Effy Vayena, Holly Fernandez Lynch, I. Glenn Cohen |
2018 |
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Auctions versus Posted Prices in Online Markets
When eBay first became popular, most sellers listed goods for sale in an auction format. Over time, posted prices began to predominate. Sellers were influenced by two factors, growing competition between sellers, and buyers’ preference for the convenience of posted prices.
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Jonathan Levin, Chiara Farronato, Liran Einav, Neel Sundaresan |
2018 |
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Facebook Was Letting Down Users Years Before Cambridge Analytica
In 2011, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) found that Facebook had deceived users about how much data it shared with third-party apps, and how that data was used. Facebook was required to ensure that outsiders did not obtain such data, but failed to do so.
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Siva Vaidhyanathan |
2018 |
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Law, Virtual Reality, and Augmented Reality
Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) will be widely used for social and commercial purposes. AR and VR will sometimes be used to harm others, testing the limits of criminal, civil, and constitutional law.
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Mark Lemley, Eugene Volokh |
2018 |
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The Many Revolutions of Carpenter
The Supreme Court’s opinion in Carpenter v. United States is revolutionary. The Supreme Court recognizes that Fourth Amendment privacy rights were intended to preserve a society free of constant surveillance.
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Paul Ohm |
2018 |
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The First Amendment in the Second Gilded Age
Social media firms give users freedom of speech in exchange for access to personal data. The digital public sphere depends on the business models of firms like Google and Twitter.
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Jack M. Balkin |
2018 |
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Fixing Social Media's Grand Bargain
Social media firms like Facebook offer services for free in exchange for data from end users, using the data to sell advertising. This bargain encourages social media firms and advertisers to manipulate users.
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Jack M. Balkin |
2018 |
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Free Speech is a Triangle
Increasingly, nation-states censor speakers by co-opting the expertise of internet-based businesses like Google. Defending free speech means resisting this type of censorship, and protecting users from manipulative uses of data.
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Jack M. Balkin |
2018 |