Recently, it seems almost every week there is a new data breach at a particularly large retailer. If you’ve ever used a credit card at the store, a slight panic sets in that your information could have been stolen. You…
Recently, a British politician suggested that theft of virtual items in online games should be punished like real theft. Mike Weatherley – by day the chief adviser on intellectual property to the Prime Minister, by night a mighty hero of…
When you click “I agree” on a website’s privacy policy, are you really consenting to all the terms? Is that thick block of small-font text that makes up most companies’ privacy policies sufficient to give you notice of just…
Summary of Ryan Harkins’s presentation in a panel on “Disclosure and Notice Practices in Private Data Collection” at Data Privacy & Transparency in Private and Government Data, April 4, 2014 at Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law. In addition to making visiting more…
Summary of Lorrie Cranor’s presentation in a panel on “Disclosure and Notice Practices in Private Data Collection” at Data Privacy & Transparency in Private and Government Data, April 4, 2014 at Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law. Privacy policies are everywhere. Nearly every…
As its name suggests, “big data” is huge. The meme refers to the collection and analysis of vast data sets collected everywhere in the digital domain from web searches, to social network communications, to Internet advertising, to even the numerous…
Comments from a viewer at the Data Privacy & Transparency in Private and Government Data, April 4, 2014 at Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law. In June of last year, Edward Snowden revealed to the public the lengths the NSA will go…
Summary of Helen Nissenbaum’s presentation in a panel on “Disclosure and Notice Practices in Private Data Collection” at Data Privacy & Transparency in Private and Government Data, April 4, 2014 at Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law. Notice and consent might be a…
Author: Gwendolen Akard, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Class of 2015; AELJ Volume 32 Staff Editor The future of fashion patents is always changing and evolving. On February 7th, some of the industry’s key players discussed hot topics in…
The Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal (AELJ) is pleased to announce its annual symposium, Transparency and Disclosure in Private and Government Data Collection, being held this spring at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, New York, New York. In…
Amie Gibbons, Vanderbilt University Law School, J.D. 2013 Consider these scenarios: A man on the run from a corporation who has the rights to a specific gene line in his body, and the willingness to take samples from him by…
Author: Gill Benedek, J.D Candidate, Class of 2014, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law We live in tumultuous times. Or so Professor David Nimmer, a prolific copyright law scholar, proposed during the Annual Burns Senior Lecture in Intellectual Property on January 17th 2013, at…
