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October 20, 2009
"Exposed: The Erosion of Privacy in the Internet Era"
Harvard Magazine runs a nice piece discussing the "ambivalence we sometimes feel about new technologies that reveal identifiable personal information."
Latanya Sweeney's research, in particular, is pretty startling: "Fully 87 percent of the United States population is uniquely identified by date of birth, five-digit zip code, and gender, she says: “So if I know only those three things about you, I can identify you by name 87 percent of the time. Pretty cool.”"
Posted by Anupam Chander on October 20, 2009 at 01:16 PM in Digitization | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Yale Journal of International Law Symposium on My "Trade 2.0" Paper
The Yale Journal of International Law is hosting a symposium on my new paper, Trade 2.0, at the online site, Opinio Juris. My first entry in the symposium is titled: "The New Global Traders on Your iPhone." International trade expert Mark Wu will provide the commentary.
Posted by Anupam Chander on October 20, 2009 at 06:56 AM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack

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