Idealism Lost: From The West Wing to Scandal
Televised depictions of the cities in which I’ve lived have always captured my imagination — Law & Order gave me a taste of New York City...
Read MoreGovernment Shutdown and Collapse: A Constitutional Crisis Caused by Rural America
As this government shutdown has come to absorb not merely the day-to-day functioning of government but also our national health care policy and the...
Read MoreAn Imbecilic Constitution Podcast
[audio https://www.joejerome.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/WhatsJoeKnow.Levinson.mp3] September 17th is Constitution Day, a day of government-mandated celebration that some have argued is blatantly unconstitutional. Professor Nelson Lund has suggested that...
Read MoreWhose Hypothetical Horribles?
Released last fall, Rick Smolan and Jennifer Erwitt’s The Human Face of Big Data is a gorgeous, coffee table book that details page after...
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Buying and Selling Privacy Essay Published by Stanford Law Review Online
My essay on how “Big Data” is transforming our notions of individual privacy in unequal ways has been published by the Stanford Law Review Online....
Read MoreBecause Everyone Needs Facebook
Facebook has rolled out several proposed updates to its privacy policy that ultimately gives Facebook even more control over its users information. Coming on...
Read MoreDigital Market Manipulation Podcast
[audio http://www.futureofprivacy.org/wp-content/uploads/FPFCast.Calo_.mp3] The other week, Rebecca Rosen wrote up a fantastic overview of Professor Ryan Calo’s new paper on “Digital Market Manipulation” in The Atlantic. “What...
Read MoreFraming Big Data Debates
If finding the proper balance between privacy risks and Big Data rewards is the big public policy challenge of the day, we can start...
Read MoreFrom Cyberspace to Big Data Podcast
In the run-up to the Future of Privacy Forum’s “Big Data and Privacy” workshop with the Stanford Center for Internet & Society, I’ve taken...
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