Democracy in the Internet Society By EungyungEileenChoi 07 Oct 2019 Democracy requires that important decisions are made by the majority. The majority opinion ...
Bad Robot By SamSchaffer 05 Dec 2019 Though I continue to wait for my robot butler, internet bots are already here, and they are ubiquitous, even our dating lives ...
Reclaiming Data Rights By NiveditaMukhija 06 Dec 2019 The State and People's Data Recently, the Data Protection Bill, 2019, India #8217;s first comprehensive ...
Fighting Internet Shutdowns By NiveditaMukhija 11 Oct 2019 Government Doublespeak On August 5, the Indian Government announced the revocation of Article 370 ...
Has Copyright Law in the Music Industry Gone Too Far? By SamSchaffer 11 Oct 2019 As music migrates to the digital realm, it is hard to ignore the increasingly ...
Is the idea of smart cities actually smart? By JayTongkak 5 Dec 2019 Virtual Doppelgänger The idea of our data being stored everywhere is rather creepy, but it ...
The Rapidly Evolving Global Private Market of Cyber Surveillance By DonnaZamir 11 Oct 2019 In recent years, we have occasionally been provided with high profile ...
NEPA as a Model for a National Privacy Protection Act By ZaneMuller 3 Feb 2020 Anyone who has clicked #8220;I accept #8221; understands the futility of a contractual ...
Internet and its effects on freedom of speech By JayTongkak 11 Oct 2019 Given that amount of data transmitted over the internet nowadays, we have access to information ...
Should we cancel #8220;cancel culture #8221;? By JurriaanVanMil 5 February 2019 This paper discusses the sensitive topic of sexually transgressive behaviour, ...
The European Union and Netflix: Taming the Beast? By JurriaanVanMil 5 February 2020 1 Introduction The European Union ( EU ) is struggling to keep up with American ...
The Unresolvable Dilemma of Christmas Gifting By EungyungEileenChoi 05 Dec 2019 My daughter's wishlist Having put all the trick or treating and thankfulness behind ...
What the Cambridge Analytica Scandal Reveals About the State of Our Global Commons By JakeTaylor 08 Oct 2019 Introduction The internet is our new global commons ...
A Reflection on Practising Law in the (British) Internet Society Part 1: Mobile Phones By JakeTaylor 06 Dec 2019 The Issue To practise as a lawyer within the ...
Enhancing due process rights of individuals who are subject to surveillance By BalajiVenkatakrishnan 06 Dec 2019 Revised Draft of Second Essay The present legal ...
It is strongly recommended that you include your outline in the body of your essay by using the outline as section titles. The headings below are there to remind ...
End to end Encryption: The Way Forward By YiShinLai 03 Feb 2020 When Phil Zimmerman first made available to the masses Pretty Good Privacy (PGP), an end to end ...
So, How "Brave" Are You? By MotazArshied 04 Dec 2019 Revised Draft A Confession #8211; Forgive Me Father for I Have Sinned After briefing through most of the ...
Should the criminal justice system be governed by algorithms? By CarlaDULAC 27 Nov 2019 My concerns about artificial intelligence which is supposed to predict ...
Little Dark Age (still) By MarianaFranceseCoutinho 10 Oct 2019 I feel somewhat conflicted about the time we are living in. It is arguably the best time ever to ...
On the digital technologies and usage habits required to protect the freedom of opinion On the value and dangers of having an opinion Before taking Professor Moglen ...
Power Conferred with Authentication Try to justify authentication We as individuals interact with a number of online sites and services every day, which usually require ...
The Regimes of Privacy By JakeBlecher 02 Feb 2020 The announcement of the CCPA has marked a shift in American society; all of a sudden, everyone cares about data ...
The Paradox of Efficiency By JakeBlecher 02 Feb 2020 To achieve, we must first lose. Time seems to be the most valuable commodity in our society, and yet the infinite ...
We Know the Problem, But Is There A Solution? By DaphneL 26 Dec 2019 The Problem I conceptualize the fight to transform user privacy in many of the same ways ...
Final Draft Tracking Right to Information to Real Time Information By ArjunJoshi 05 Dec 2019 Scrolling... wait, what? Tracking Users A month ago, Namrata and ...
Reconsidering The Role of Advertising In a 'Free Internet' The technology companies that enable online advertising (e.g. Google) often tout the immense social benefit ...
Final Draft Downloading Dissent, Uploading Identity Introduction When Reliance Limited made its voice over LTE service publicly available in 2016, it took 333 ...
The Role of International Human Rights Law in Data Privacy Discussions By AmayGupta 06 Dec 2019 (updated 01 Feb 2020) Introduction Society balance the efficient ...
My Breakup With Google By JieLin 03 Dec 2019 The biggest lesson I learnt from this course is just how little control I have over my own life #8211; my privacy ...
Artificial intelligence and mass surveillance By RaulMazzarella; Final version The technological development Mass surveillance for illegitimate reasons has been ...
Psychological Aspects of Allowing our Cybersurveillance and Data Collection By DonnaZamir 06 Dec 2019 The Cybersurveillance Cognitive Dissonance We are all being ...
Privacy Cryptocurrencies By RaulMazzarella; Final version Privacy in the online financial system The right to privacy has been recognized as a human right in several ...
Ethical Technological Development and Corporate Governance By EricaPedersen 09 Dec 2019 In a capitalist economy, how might technology companies be forced to take ...
The new kid on the Block: CCPA and US Data Protection By EricN 26 Jan 2020 The internet user #8217;s perception of data protection and the awareness about the ...
The Right to be Forgotten vs. Free Speech By EricN 04 Jan 2020 In recent years regulators all over the world, especially in the European Union (EU), have increased ...
Data Privacy: From Smart City to Smart Democrac(it)y Revised By NamrataMaheshwari 06 Dec 2019 Urban spaces are on the cusp of metamorphosis. The development ...
Our Internet and Our Democracy Revised The Internet #8211; As Envisaged and As Is The internet, as it was originally envisaged, was meant to be a network for decentralized ...
A Journey to Freedom: A Self Reflection By AlexXinruiLi 06 Oct 2019 Awareness When David Carroll asked in his classroom about whether you have received an advertisement ...
"I Have Nothing to Hide." By AlexXinruiLi 02 Dec 2019 During Thanksgiving weekend, I went shopping with my friends to get Christmas gifts for their families. The ...
This draft is more than 1300 words long and is not acceptable. Promising or Pointless? Impact Investing, Social Enterprise, and the Free Software Movement ...
Privacy, Protection of our data: the right to be forgotten online versus freedom of information By CarlaDULAC 06 Oct 2019 My worries about having no say in ...
Alexa isn't safe for work for lawyers,so why do lawyers still use her? By AyeletBentley 03 Dec 2019 Legal ramifications of Alexa have been discussed relation to ...
The Burden of Protection By AnjaKong 07 Dec 2019 This semester all my classes have clicked together. In addition to this class, I am in Copyright, a seminar on ...
Mother is Always Watching: Psychological, Sociological, and Privacy Concerns of Surveillance Helicoptering Even before I enter the apartment where I #8217;m babysitting ...
Open justice against closed minds By JoseMariaDelajara 05 Oct 2019 The problem The judiciary can be an odd place. Legalese, strange practices, and corruption ...
Law in the Internet Society All work received as of January 15 has been edited. Your revisions to all work are due by end of day on February 3. If you need an ...
21st Century addiction By AnneWu 07 Dec 2019 The premise is very clear now, that smart phone and social media have drastically changed human behaviors, but most ...
A Vacation from Habits By MengyiTu 14 Oct 2019 It is 8:02 pm. I decided to start writing this essay at 6:40 pm. Between 6:40 and 8:02, I facetimed my husband who ...
How to live a life of surveillance By MelissaTeh 04 Dec 2019 Realizing that I will never be free To live a life completely free of spying would require such dramatic ...
#8220;Compare Your Home #8217;s Energy Use with Your Neighbor #8217;s #8221; By JoannaP 05 Dec 2019 Introduction I #8217;ll admit, as an energy lawyer from a ...
Framing Free Software as Racial Justice By VinayPatel 19 Jan 2020 Racial Justice Framing I often become more invested in issues framed as racial justice problems ...
Overcoming Apathy and Helplessness By VinayPatel 05 Jan 2020 Online privacy and security are matters of growing public concern, or at least growing awareness. ...
Within the discussion of whether informed consent in the privacy context can even be a reasonable framework for regulating collectors of data, I was interested in ...
A Failed Gateway to Informed Political Opinion By CeliaDiederichs 11 Oct 2019 Introduction Ever since the mid 1990s, when the Internet became publicly accessible ...
Lawyers, Risk Aversion, and Privacy. By AngeloAngelino 06 Dec 2019 Lawyers are risk averse. An attention to privacy is a means to avoiding risk. So why aren #8217 ...
Privacy Reform and the Heuristics of Privacy Utility While education may be the long term solution for sparking privacy reform, the pace at which people are forfeiting ...
Cloudy With a Chance of Eyeballs: Consequences at the Seams of Cross Border Data Sharing In lengthening the reach of governments to request private information from ...
Banking as Social Media #8211; The Venmo problem By NishaChandra 11 Oct 2019 Mobile wallets Venmo, one of the first mobile wallet applications, allows users ...
The New "Supreme Court" for Content Moderation By CeliaDiederichs 07 Dec 2019 Facebook's freedom of self regulation over its content gave rise to multiple attempts ...
How I Enslaved Myself With Google's Passwords Manager By MotazArshied 07 Oct 2019 Second Draft That Night Google Convinced Me to Register for this Course ...
Becoming Computer Literate By AngeloAngelino 11 Oct 2019 Angelo vs. the Registrar It took 3 months for the law school to allow me to cross register for an introductory ...
How Social Media Exacerbates Income Inequality By AmayGupta 10 Jan 2020 I don #8217;t think it is a stretch to say that our exposure to the lives of the rich ...
Protecting Our Data By ChevaunSamuels 02 Dec 2019 There have been many data breaches within the last few years. These breaches have opened our eyes regarding ...
Losing Our Anonymity in a Cashless Society By JieLin 11 Oct 2019 A few classes back, the topic of a cashless economy came up, with discussions centered around ...
The Internet Society #8217;s Nuclear Option In class, we have discussed the importance of privacy and the risks of surveillance in an era of increasingly sophisticated ...
Voice Activation and Its Fundamental Disagreements with Privacy By MattDial 29 Nov 2019 It #8217;s a trope of many science fiction movies, and seemingly necessary ...
Subscriptions, or Keeping Us Hooked By MattDial 08 Oct 2019 Our growing system of subscriptions is keeping us segmented and passive as consumers. Subscriptions ...
How, exactly, are smartphones harming our health? By MarianaFranceseCoutinho 06 Dec 2019 The question I am an anxious person by nature. I bite my nails, fidget ...
Is privacy an inalienable right? By MelissaTeh 10 Jan 2020 I view privacy as an inalienable right. This means that privacy is not only an important right, but ...
Can we still forgive if we can't forget? By KerimAksoy 26 Nov 2019 Edward Snowden's talk at Columbia sold out long before its scheduled date. I wanted to hear ...
Big Brother Is Still Watching By ChevaunSamuels 11 Oct 2019 Most people today, whether it is big or small, rely on the help of technology. Commonly, these individuals ...
Algorithmic Profiling and the Future of Individual Autonomy By EricaPedersen 11 Oct 2019 Privacy and Autonomy in the Internet Age: Beyond the Individual Policymakers ...
Combatting the Big Data Conundrum using Antitrust Law By BalajiVenkatakrishnan 07 Oct 2019 The objective of this paper is to urge India's nascent Competition ...
21st Century Puppet Show in Taiwan Awareness My first realization that the press is biased came when I was in senior year of university in a media literacy course ...
On Freedom of Thought Before taking Professor Moglen #8217;s course, I paid very little attention to my own digital footprint. I wasn #8217;t doing anything criminal ...
It is strongly recommended that you include your outline in the body of your essay by using the outline as section titles. The headings below are there to remind ...
Political Micro targeting: An Experiment on Facebook's Political Targeting Tags. By KuanHsinHuang 06 Dec 2019 I An Observation of Facebook #8217;s Ad targeting ...
The Fear of Missing Out #8220;FOMO #8221; always seemed like a joke to me. It did not seem real. However, it is clear now more than ever, that FOMO has affected ...
Tech project 2: Create a GPG key and upload it to the keyservers Linux instructions There are a number of tools available to Linux users including many different ...
Back End / Front End The digital devices and services that we all use all the time are destroying our individual mental health, our social and political systems, and ...
The Internet Society #8217;s Nuclear Option By AndrewIwanicki 12 Oct 2019 Section I In class, we have discussed the importance of privacy and the risks of surveillance ...
There is only one way to take down surveillance capitalism: a coup from below By ChetnaKumar 11 Oct 2019 When we watch our TVs, they are watching us ...
True Awareness as the Only Means to Regain Personal Freedom By SalmanAlmutawa 11 Oct 2019 An Evolutionary Shift An evolutionary shift is underway. Lessons of ...
Parenting In Social Media and The Gift of Choice By JoannaP 10 Oct 2019 Introduction I can say I #8217;m proud to be part of the human race that wasn #8217;t ...
Separating Privacy, Secrecy, and Anonymity Secrecy Coming to Terms with Encryption Privacy Guard: Get it if you don't have it, and please read the Privacy Handbook ...
Mother is Always Watching: Psychological, Sociological, and Privacy Concerns of Surveillance Helicoptering Even before I enter the apartment where I #8217;m babysitting ...
Even though I #8217;m a few years removed from applying to law school, it still strikes me how opaque the entire process is. The Columbia Law admissions website emphasizes ...
Deepfakes and Sexual Privacy Laws By KerimAksoy 05 Oct 2019 Introduction Millions have watched the video of Bill Hader channeling Tom Cruise. Hader, who is known ...
Secure Proxy Browsing In this project you will be setting up a secure connection between your computer and the mainframe computers at Columbia, then you will be instructing ...
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