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Cross Country Checkup on Lawful Access
February 20th, 2012

Surveillance is, and always has been, a topic that makes people uneasy. The explosion over the past decade of public and private activity online has meant that many people have had to re-think their attitude towards privacy, and define exactly what should be public and what should be private. What d... Read more »

Privacy, Identity and Anonymity
September 1st, 2011

‘Privacy, Identity and Anonymity‘ in International Handbook of Surveillance Studies, eds. Kristie Ball, Kevin Haggerty and David Lyon (London: Routledge) forthcoming 2011 [co-authored in equal proportion with Jennifer Barrigar]. This chapter was written in collaboration with one of my fa... Read more »

Speaking at NYU
August 9th, 2011

“What keeps the world together? It’s rules… people abiding by the terms” –’Repo Man’ This past May, I had the great privilege of being invited to lecture at NYU’s Steinhardt Department of Media, Culture, and Communication as a LeBoff Distinguished Visiting Sch... Read more »

Prediction, Presumption, Preemption: The Path of Law After the Computational Turn
July 31st, 2011

‘Prediction, Presumption, Preemption: The Path of Law After the Computational Turn‘, forthcoming in Privacy, Due Process and the Computational Turn: The Philosophy of Law Meets the Philosophy of Technology, eds. Mireille Hildebrandt & Ekaterina De Vries. This chapter examines the pat... Read more »

James Wishart
May 24th, 2011

James Wishart is a lapsed PhD. student (History of Medicine) who entered law school after consultation with a long-ignored voice in his head. When he is not learning to love the law, he enjoys shopping for used cars (but not buying them), reducing the annual natural gas consumption in his home, and... Read more »

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