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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.

Who Will Control the Internet?

Wanling Su

This month, as 193 governments gathered in Dubai to create a treaty that will govern the future of the Internet, Syria had just emerged from an Internet shutdown that was most likely caused by its government. According to the CEO of SecDev, an Internet analytics firm:

The Technological "Gaydar" – The Problems with Facial Recognition AI

Anat Lior

January 11, 2018

Often, our environment shapes the way that we see ourselves. If those around us perceive us in a certain way, we may begin to act in accordance with those perceptions. This self-fulfilling prophecy is a significant part of our social lives and the way we interact with our environment. Now imagine that artificial intelligence (AI) software allowed society to publicly label important aspects of your identity from an early age. How would this label affect your self-perception? What effect would it have on your freedom of choice and autonomy?