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Privacy law expert and law professor Dan Solove (I reviewed his latest book, The Digital Person, here) and Chris Hoofnagle (of EPIC) have published the first draft of “A Model Regime of Privacy Protection.” From the abstract: Privacy protection in the United States has often been criticized, but critics have too infrequently suggested specific proposals [...]

Privacy Digest reports that an update to AOL’s Instant Messenger Terms of Service includes an explicit waiver of privacy. From the subsection “Content You Post” (emphasis added): Although you or the owner of the Content retain ownership of all right, title and interest in Content that you post to any AIM Product, AOL owns all [...]

The Electronic Frontier Foundation has an excellent page summarizing the MGM v. Grokster case and a complete listing of all the supporting court documents and amicus briefs related to the case. From their page: EFF is defending StreamCast Networks, the company behind the Morpheus peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing software, in an important case that will be [...]

ComuterWorld reports that a senior legislator in Japan is calling for the addition of data privacy rights to the country’s constitution: An influential Japanese politician earlier this month called for the right to information privacy to be added to the country’s constitution. The collection, storage, use and transfer of personal information should be banned unless [...]

GW Law professor Orin Kerr has posted a draft of his new (and important) paper “Search Warrants in an Era of Digital Evidence.” Here is the abstract: This Article contends that the legal rules regulating the search warrant process must be revised in light of the demands of digital evidence collection. Existing rules are premised [...]

Today I attended the latest Colloquium on Information Technology & Society hosted by the Information Law Institute (of which I’m a Student Fellow), at New York University School of Law. Professor Niva Elkin-Koren of Haifa University Law School gave an excellent talk entitled “What Contracts Can’t Do: The Limits of Private Ordering in Facilitating a [...]