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Hot Off the Presses: YJoLT Volume 14, Winter Issue

We are so pleased to announce the publication of the Winter Issue of Volume 14 of the Yale Journal of Law and Technology.  Please click on over to “Current Issue” to view articles on neuroimaging and Daubert from J.R.H. Law, MDY and its complications for open source software licensing from Professor Robert W. Gomulkiewicz, computer games and legal narrative from Professor Lucille A. Jewel, and a new experimental look at liability versus property rules in patent law from Professors Andrew W. Torrance and Bill Tomlinson.

People Like You

Omer Tene, Vice President of Research and Education, IAPP
November 28, 2015

For more than a decade, the policy debates around informational privacy have focused on the fickle notion of identifiability. Companies and government agencies sought to collect and use personal information to deliver services, improve products and conduct research, while at the same time protecting individuals’ privacy by de-identifying (anonymizing) their data. Surely, by reliably unlinking personal information from individual identities, organizations could reduce the privacy impact of their actions.

Hate the Game: Government Surveillance and the Market for Privacy

Amanda Lynch

Even before Edward Snowden called a press conference using a Lavabit email address, the FBI was interested in the secure email service.  Lavabit founder Ladar Levison tried to cater to the savvy consumer: providing private communication in a market where participants are increasingly aware of the government’s access to their data.  However, Levison shuttered his email service in August, after receiving a 

The Problem with the New York Cybersecurity Guidelines

Brian Mund
November 7, 2017

For most companies, it is only a matter of time before a savvy hacker slips through their Information Technology security infrastructure and accesses material non-public information. Unlike in the past, data breaches now trigger a slew of regulatory hurdles for the victimized company.

Toward a Textualist Paradigm for Interpreting Emoticons

John S. Ehrett, J.D. Candidate, Yale Law School
October 27, 2015

Introduction

As online communications have proliferated, discursive norms unique to the medium have emerged. The use of emoticons and, more recently, emojis—pictograms often conveying multiple layers of semantic meaning—has figured prominently in this process.[i] In the normal course of online interaction, Internet users routinely parse the symbolic significance of various emoticons and emojis.