Month: September 2021
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This piece, on Facebook's behaving more like an autocratic, hostile state than a large company, is worth the read. Here's an excerpt: "Perhaps Americans have become so cynical that they have given up on defending their freedom from surveillance, manipulation, and exploitation. But if Russia or China were taking the exact same actions to undermine…
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I was both saddened and stunned this morning to read of the passing of Charles Mills. I first met him at a SPEP years ago; I was having lunch at some random sandwich shop with friends. He knew one of us, and asked if he could join. Nevermind that we were all junior. I managed…
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Shameless self-promotion dept… here's the preprint for my new paper, "The Death of the Data Subject," now forthcoming in Law, Culture and the Humanities. And here's the abstract: This paper situates the data privacy debate in the context of what I call the death of the data subject. My central claim is that concept of…
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And what does that mean? Now is a good time to ask. The Court has let stand a 5th Circuit decision upholding a Texas law that is plainly unconstitutional under current SCOTUS jurisprudence (it bans abortion at 6 weeks) and involves an enforcement mechanism that comes straight from Stalin’s playbook (it allows individuals to sue…
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