MOOCs and My Future Employment Prospects?
Massive open online courses are a new, rapidly evolving platform for delivering educational instruction. Since their appearance just a half-decade ago, multiple platforms now...
Read MoreBuying and Selling Privacy Paper
Judge Alex Kozinski has offered to pay $2,400 a year to protect his privacy. Meanwhile, Federico Zannier started a Kickstarter to “data mine” himself...
Read MorePrivacy Protections from FISA Court May Not Compute
This is cross-post on the American Constitution Society’s blog. After the events of the past few weeks, a discussion presented by the American Constitution...
Read MoreThe Rhetoric and Law of Government Surveillance
Two weeks ago, after the President’s national security address, I was left with little reaction other than the speech sounded good. The President made overtures...
Read MoreParsing the Purpose Limitation Principle
Last month, the European Union’s Article 29 Working Party (WP29) released an opinion analyzing the data protection principle of purpose limitation. That principle, which...
Read MoreCivil Rights to Human Rights: The Legacy of Bayard Rustin
A year ago today, I helped organize a discussion on civil/human rights rhetoric in America at the Schomburg Center. The impetus for the program was...
Read MoreThe Supreme's Take on Same-Sex Marriage
I didn’t have much time this week to gather my thoughts on the Supreme Court’s handling of the Proposition 8/DOMA arguments (yet I did...
Read MoreKeeping Secrets from Society
While the first round of oral arguments surrounding gay marriage was the big event before the Supreme Court today, the Court also issued a...
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