Brian,

This was a fantastic article. I especially enjoyed because it was similarly related to my first article. It is incredibly interesting to see all the ways in which the "third-party" doctrine inhibits privacy in the age of computer technology. I think the "third-party" doctrine is another antiquated doctrine that needs to be abolished or narrowed in its application. The author I recommended for you, Orin Kerr, has a great examination of the "third-party". It's called "A Case for the Third-Party Doctrine." He ultimately concludes that the "third-party doctrine" is still a good thing overall, but despite my disagreement with his conclusion, it has some great analysis of both sides of the argument.

As an aside, do you have any idea if the datamining that is involved with Google Books also occurs with Google Reader and its RSS articles?

-- EdwardBontkowski - 07 May 2010

Oh, by the way here's a direct link for the Orin Kerr article. I forgot to include it.

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1138128

-- EdwardBontkowski - 07 May 2010