Yakima Herald-Republic articles from May 2000

Yakima Herald-Republic archives from May 2000

President's Pages.
May 1, 2000... This Symposium issue offers the articles presented at a conference that took place at Stanford Law School on Feb. 6 and 7, 2000. Entitled "Cyberspace and Privacy: A New Legal Paradigm?," the conference was presented by the Stanford Law Review...

Foreword.
May 1, 2000... In December, 1993, I was trapped in Manhattan, between flights, roaming a cold and particularly grimy part of the city. I had just finished an extraordinary book by Catharine MacKinnon--Only Words--a book about the way in which words, speech,...

Privacy, publication, and the First Amendment: the dangers of First Amendment exceptionalism.
May 1, 2000... INTRODUCTION: ANYTHING NEW IN CYBERSPACE? Doctrinal analysis often requires us to reconcile traditional legal principle with modern technological innovation. Nowhere is this task of reconciliation more daunting than with cyberspace, where...

Freedom of speech and information privacy: the troubling implications of a right to stop people from speaking about you.
May 1, 2000... INTRODUCTION Privacy is a popular word, and government attempts to "protect our privacy" are easy to endorse. Government attempts to let us "control... information about ourselves"(1) sound equally good: Who wouldn't want extra control?...

Privacy as intellectual property?
May 1, 2000... INTRODUCTION Information privacy is a scarce commodity in cyberspace.(1) The technical infrastructure of cyberspace makes it remarkably simple and inexpensive to collect substantial amounts of information identifiable to particular...

Uneasy Access for Women in a Free Society.(Review)
May 1, 2000... INTRODUCTION UNEASY ACCESS: PRIVACY FOR WOMEN IN A FREE SOCIETY. By Anita L. Allen. Totowa, N.J.: Rowman & Littlefield, 1988. 226 pp. $68.00. A dozen years ago, I published a book about women's privacy, Uneasy Access: Privacy for Women...

What the publisher can teach the patient: intellectual property and privacy in an era of trusted privication.
May 1, 2000... INTRODUCTION Individuals have long had the desire but little ability to control the dissemination of information about their health. Law has been a weak instrument for such control, given the articulate and powerful interests that insist...

Hardware-based ID, rights management, and trusted systems.
May 1, 2000... Networked digital technology enables the easy and inexpensive movement of speech and information among persons who are strangers to one another. People may not always find unfettered movement desirable, though. A content producer may want to...

Information privacy/information property.
May 1, 2000... What we offer our advertisers, is an audience delivered with unprecedented precision. An Audience that welcomes your message because we show you how to make it relevant to their interests. An audience that we know intimately because they allow...

Resolving conflicting international data privacy rules in cyberspace.
May 1, 2000... INTRODUCTION The robust development of the Interact and online services over the last several years represent the most significant era for international flows of personal information since the first wave of computerization in the 1970s....

Examined lives: informational privacy and the subject as object.
May 1, 2000... In the United States, proposals for informational privacy protection have proved enormously controversial. On a political level, such proposals threaten powerful data processing interests. On a theoretical level, data ...

What Larry doesn't get: code, law, and liberty in cyberspace.(Review)
May 1, 2000... CODE AND OTHER LAWS OF CYBERSPACE. By Lawrence Lessig. Basic Books. 1999. 297 pp. $30.00. The emergence of the vast informational ecosystem we call cyberspace is an event of incalculable importance in the history of human liberty. The...

The death of privacy?
May 1, 2000... INTRODUCTION Information, as we all know, is power. Both collecting and collating personal information are means of acquiring power, usually at the expense of the data subject. Whether this is desirable depends upon who the viewer and...

Private property.
May 1, 2000... Most Internet scholars--and indeed most people--think we need more privacy online.(1) It is easy enough to find horror stories about data compilation and mining; computers and other devices that report on your files, your whereabouts, and your...

Free speech vs. information privacy: Eugene Volokh's First Amendment jurisprudence.
May 1, 2000... Eugene Volokh's masterful contribution to this symposium examines caselaw, doctrine, and theory to reach the conclusion that "information privacy rules are not easily defensible under existing free speech law."(1) Although permitting a narrow...

Save the robots: cyber profiling and your so-called life.
May 1, 2000... I'm new to the "cyberspace" genre of legal scholarship although not to the issues it raises (I live in the San Francisco Bay Area and work in Silicon Valley, so the phenomenology of the virtual is an ever present part of the popular culture)....

Trusted systems and medical records: lowering expectations.
May 1, 2000... Our world--perhaps especially our academic world--is intensely specialized. Expertise in privacy and the Internet would seem readily transferable to issues of the privacy of electronic medical records, but there is a very real gap. Jonathan...

Privicating privacy: reflections on Henry Greely's commentary.(response to article by Henry Greely in this issue, p. 1595)
May 1, 2000... My article in this issue of the Review(1) makes the claim that an appreciation of the power of "trusted" or "privication" architectures could help break political and conceptual logjams suffered within long-running debates over privacy....