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Issues

• Summer Issue, Volume 6, Issue 2 (2010)
• Democratic Information Communities, Peter M. Shane
• Location-Sharing Technologies: Privacy Risks and Controls, Janice Y. Tsai, Patrick Gage Kelley, Lorrie Faith Cranor, and Norman Sadeh
• The Law as Stimulus: The Role of Law in Fostering Innovative Entrepreneurship, Viktor Mayer-Schönberger
• Gauging Agency Involvement in Environmental Management Using Text Analysis of Laws and Regulations, Julia A. Ekstrom, Gloria T. Lau, Jack C.P. Cheng, Daniel J. Spiteri, and Kincho H. Law
• A Story of Her Own: A Feminist Critique of Copyright Law, Emily Chaloner
• Checking the Math: Government Secrecy and DNA Databases, Sarah M. Ruby
• Applying Nuisance Law to Internet Obscenity, Michael J. Gray
• Winter Issue, Volume 6, Issue 1 (2010)
• Hybrid Vigor: Mashups, Cyborgs, and Other Necessary Monsters, Rebecca Tushnet
• Recut, Reframe, Recycle: The Shaping of Fair Use Best Practices for Online Video, Patricia Aufderheide & Peter Jaszi
• Remixing Lessig, Edward Lee
• Why Plaintiffs Should have to Prove Irreparable Harm in Copyright Preliminary Injunction Cases, Pamela Samuelson & Krzysztof Bebenek
• 2009 Privacy Year in Review, Volume 5, Issue 3 (2009)
• Introduction: The Information Economy, the War on Terror and the Evolving Landscape of Information Privacy Law, Dennis D. Hirsch
• Surveillance and Privacy Under the Obama Administration: The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 Amendments Act of 2008 and the Attorney General's Guidelines for Domestic FBI Operations, Elizabeth Johnson
• Me, Myself, and My Avatar: The Right to the Likeness of Our Digital Selves, Oliver A. Khan
• Come Fly the (Unfriendly?) Skies: Negotiating Passenger Name Record Agreements Between the United States and European Union, Marjorie J. Yano
• Living Our Lives Online: The Privacy Implications of Online Social Networking, David Hector Montes
• It's Personal: Privacy Concerns Associated With Personal Health Records, Kristen Carl
• Is Financial Privacy Preventing Legitimate Research?, Peter Williams
• Sexually Transmitted Identification, James M. Helmink
• Copyright, Data Protection, and Privacy with Digital Rights Management and Trusted Systems: Negotiating a Compromise between Proprietors and Users, Saif M. Khan
• Summer Issue, Volume 5, Issue 2 (2009)
• Government Role and the Interoperability Ecosystem, Stacey A. Baird
• A Study of Spyware Enforcement Actions in Pursuit of Sound Internet Advertising Policy, Rita M. Cain
• Protecting the Nation’s Cyber Infrastructure: Is the Department of Homeland Security Our Nation’s Savior or the Albatross Around Our Neck?, Rebecca C.E. McFadyen
• Creators, Consumers, and Distributors: Understanding the Moral Structure of Digital Copyright, Aaron Ross Powell
• Globalization and Standards: The Logic of Two-Level Games, Jane K. Winn
• E-Democracy, Volume 5, Issue 1 (2009)
• Introduction: Online Consultation and Democratic Communication, Peter M. Shane
• Web 2.0: New Challenges for the Study of E-Democracy in an Era of Informational Exuberance, Andrew Chadwick
• Complexity, Information Overload, and Online Deliberation, Oren Perez
• Deliberation and Inclusion: Framing Online Public Debate to Enlarge Participation. A Theoretical Proposal, Laurence Monnoyer-Smith
• Municipal Environments, Nonprofit Entrepreneurs, and the Development of Neighborhood Information Systems, Steven J. Balla
• Building the Bottom Up From the Top Down, A. Michael Froomkin
• 2008 Privacy Year in Review, Volume 4, Issue 3 (2008)
• Introductory Essay for 2008 Privacy Year in Review, Peter P. Swire & Martha K. Landesberg
• A Privacy Review of DNA Databases, Natalie A. Bennett
• 'Using Science to Combat Data Loss: Analyzing Breaches by Type and Industry, C. Matthew Curtin, CISSP
• The Identity Theft Cat-and-Mouse Game: An Examination of the State and Federal Governments’ Latest Maneuvers, Nicki K. Elgie
• The Role of Privacy Law in Genetic Research, Sarah Fendrick
• Data Breach Notification Legislation: Recent Developments, Julie A. Heitzenrater
• Privacy Implications of Mandatory Immunizations, Exemptions, and Immunization Information Systems, Kyla L. Kelch
• Are IP Addresses “Personally Identifiable Information”?, Frederick Lah
• The First Civil Rights Act of the 21st Century: Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008, Jennifer J. Lee
• The Cost of Reading Privacy Policies, Aleecia M. McDonald & Lorrie Faith Cranor
• Privacy Implications of GPS Tracking Technology, Sarah Rahter
• E-Verify: Expansion and Recent Developments, Lizzette Romero
• Behavioral Targeting: Issues Involving the Microsoft-aQuantive and Google-DoubleClick Mergers, and the Current and Proposed Solutions to Those Issues, James Schedwin
• Privacy of Personal Information in the Financial Services Sectors of the United States and Japan: The Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act and the Financial Services Agency Guidelines, Ryan L. Waggoner
• Is MySpace a Good Kids’ Space? A Look at the Implications of the January 2008 MySpace – Attorneys General Agreement Concerning Online Age Verification, Matthew Whitman
• China in Global Trade: Proposed Data Protection Law and Encryption Standard Dispute, Aimee Boran Yang
• Celebrating the Tenth Issue of I/S, Volume 4, Issue 2 (2008)
• Introduction: Celebrating the Tenth Issue of I/S, Peter Shane
• 'Net Neutrality,' Non-Discrimination and Digital Distribution of Content Through the Internet, Nicholas Economides
• Defining and Measuring A2K: A Blueprint for an Index of Access to Knowledge, Lea Bishop Shaver
• After the Battle of the Forms: Commercial Contracting in the Electronic Age, Francis J. Mootz III
• Pondering the Politics of Private Procedures: The Case of ICANN, Jay P. Kesan and Andres A. Gallo
• The Effectiveness of Internet Content Filters, Philip B. Stark
• Data Mining and Counter-Terrorism: The Use of Telephone Records as an Investigatory Tool in the 'War on Terror', Bryan D. Kreykes
• Despite a Perfect 10, What Newspapers Should Know About Immunity (and Liability) for Online Commenting, Adam M. Greenfield
• National Security or Unnecessary Secrecy? Restricting Exemption 1 to Prohibit Reclassification of Information Already in the Public Domain, Amanda Fitzsimmons
• The Future on Patent Reform, Volume 4, Issue 1 (2008)
• Introduction: The Future of Patent Reform, Edward Lee
• Claims to Information Qua Information and a Structural Theory of Section 101, Kevin Emerson Collins
• Community Service: Adapting Peer Review to the Patenting Process, Christopher Wong
• Patent Reform: No Time Like the Present, Adam B. Jaffe
• Patent Trolls and the New Tort Reform: A Practitioner’s Perspective, Spencer Hosie
• Data Breaches: Recent Developments in the Public and Private Sectors, Michael E. Jones
• Ubiquitous Computing, Virtual Worlds, and the Displacement of Property Rights, M. Scott Boone
• Managing Digital Rights Management: Effectively Protecting Intellectual Property and Consumer Rights in the Wake of the Sony CD Copy Protection Scandal, Jeremy Stanley
• 2007 Privacy Year in Review, Volume 3, Issue 3 (2007)
• Phishing for the Answer: Recent Developments in Combating Phishing, Rasha Almahroos
• The Terrorist Surveillance Program: Assessing the Legality of the Unknown, Austin Anderson
• Between East and West: The APEC Privacy Framework and the Balance of International Data Flows, Carla Bulford
• When Does Preemption Not Really Preempt? The Role of State Law after CAN-SPAM, Rita Marie Cain
• Anti-Spyware Enforcement: Recent Developments, Megan M. Engle
• Major Developments in Financial Privacy Law 2006: The SWIFT Database Incident, and Updates to the Gramm-Leach-Bliley and Fair Credit Reporting Acts, Sarah Elizabeth Exten
• Data Breaches: Recent Developments in the Public and Private Sectors, Michael E. Jones
• Personal Privacy in the Face of Government Use of GPS, Kevin Keener
• The National Identification Debate: 'REAL ID' and Voter Identification, Debra Milberg
• You Better Watch Out, You Better Not Frown, New Video Surveillance Techniques are Already in Town (and Other Public Spaces), Carla Scherr
• Introductory Essay for '2007 Privacy Year in Review', Peter P. Swire & Marth K. Landesberg
• Developments in HIPAA and Health Information Technology, Cicely N. Tingle
• The Federal Trade Commission and Consumer Privacy in the Coming Decade, Joseph Turow, Chris Jay Hoofnagle, Deirdre K. Mulligan, Nathaniel Good, & Jens Grossklags
• Recent Developments in RFID Technology: Weighing Utility Against Potential Privacy Concerns, Laura M. Ulatowski
• Tracking RFID, Jonathan Weinberg
• The NSA, AT&T, and the Secrets of Room 641A, Stephen Manuel Wolfson
• The Right to Privacy in Electronic Communications: Current Fourth Amendment and Statutory Protection in the Wake of Warshak v. United States, Erin E. Wright
• Cybersecurity, Volume 3, Issue 2 (2007)
• Reliable, Usable Signaling to Defeat Masquerade Attacks, L. Jean Camp
• Open-Source Policy Modeling, Max Henrion
• Defaults vs. Rational Choice: The Case of Home-Based Wireless Security, Matthew Hottell
• The Economics of Proof-of-Work, Debin Liu
• Extending Learned Hand's Negligence Formula To Information Security Breaches, Micheal L. Rustad & Thomas H. Koenig
• The Problem of Anonymous Vanity Searches, Christopher Soghoian
• Ignoring the Great Firewall of China, Richard Clayton, Steven J. Murdoch & Robert N. M. Watson
• Telecom, Volume 3, Issue 1 (2007)
• In Support of Network Neutrality, Lawrence Lessig
• Media Diversity And Substitutability: Problems with the FCCs Diversity Index, Adam Marcus
• Net Neutrality Mandates: Neutering the First Amendment in the Digital Age, Randolph J. May
• The New Concept of Universal Service in a Digital Networked Communications Environment, Mira Burri Nenova
• Rationalizing the Municipal Broadband Debate, Michael J. Santorelli
• Introduction: Key Issues in Telecommunications Reform, Peter M. Shane
• The Impact of Video Service Regulation on the Construction of Broadband Networks to Low-Income Households, George S. Ford, Thomas M. Koutsky & Lawrence J. Spiwak
• Towards a Sustainable Institutional Arrangement for USOs in China: Current Status, Support Mechanisms, and Regulatory Governance, Jun Xia
• Privacy, Volume 2, Issue 3 (2006)
• Toward Implementation of Electronic Health Records: Justifications, Action, and Barriers to Adoption, Kirk Koehler
• U.S. E-Passports: ETA August 2006: Recent Changes Provide Additional Protection for Biometric Information Contained in U.S. Electronic Passports, Frances Fungsang
• Privacy Year in Review: Information Brokers and Privacy 2005, Derek J. Somogy
• Two-Factor Authentication: A Solution to Times Past or Present? The Debate Surrounding the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Security Safeguards Rule and the Methods of Risk Assessment and Compliance, Ritu Singh
• Reflections on Privacy: Recent Developments in HIPAA Privacy Rule, Nusrat Rahman
• Developments in the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act During the Year 2005: An Overview of Important Changes in Case Law and Pending Legislation, Richard Joseph McMahon
• The Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act Regulations: Disclosure Requirements and Consumer Opt-Out Rights, When Medical Information May Be Used in Financial Transactions, and the Proper Disposal of Sensitive Consumer Information, Katy Liu
• Auditing for Privacy, Christine Easter
• Privacy Law Developments in California, Margaret Betzel
• Legal Update: Unsolicited Commercial Email and Privacy Concerns Related To Social Network Services, Usha Munukutla-Parker
• Data Protection in the European Union: Current Status and Future Implications, Briana N. Godbey
• Argentina's Protection of Personal Data: Initiation and Response, Maxim Gakh
• Security Breach Notifications - State Laws, Federal Proposals and Recommendations, Milton Sutton
• Internet Wiretaps: Applying the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act to Broadband Services, Gene Park
• Privacy Year in Review: The Effects of Spyware and Phishing on the Privacy Rights of Internet Users, Sarah A. Cherry
• Privacy Year In Review: Federal Data Collection; Secure Flight, the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act, and the Reauthorization of the P.A.T.R.I.O.T. Act, Grant Christensen
• State Government Information Collection: the Shutdown of the MATRIX Program, REAL ID, and DNA Collection, Katie Stenman
• An Evaluation of the Effect of US Financial Privacy Legislation Through the Analysis of Privacy Policies, Xinguang Sheng & Lorrie Faith Cranor
• How Technology Drives Vehicular Privacy, Aleecia M. McDonald & Lorrie Faith Cranor
• Cybersecurity, Volume 2, Issue 2 (2006)
• Foreword: I/S Symposium on Cybersecurity Policy, Peter M. Shane (Free download, courtesy of I/S Journal)
• Introduction: The State of Economics of Information Security, Jean Camp (Free download, courtesy of I/S Journal)
• Faking It: Calculating Loss in Computer Crime Sentencing, Jennifer S. Granick
• Could IPv6 Improve Network Security? And, If So, at What Cost?, Brent Rowe and Michael Gallaher
• The Privacy Value, Peter E. Sand
• User Choices and Regret: Understanding Users' Decision Process about Consensually Acquired Spyware, Nathaniel Good, Jens Grossklags, David Thaw, Aaron Perzanowsk, Deirdre Mulligan, and Joseph Konstan
• A Dispatch From the Crypto Wars [reviewing Matt Curtin, Brute Force: Cracking the Data Encryption Standard (2005)], A. Michael Froomkin
• Development Theory and Foundations of Universal Access Policies, Caio Mario Pereira da Silva
• No Direction Home: Will The Law Keep Pace With Human Tracking Technology to Protect Individual Privacy and Stop Geoslavery?, William Herbert
• Federal Secrecy After September 11 and the Future of the Information Society, Volume 2, Issue 1 (2006)
• Table of Contents
• Social Theory Meets Social Policy: Culture, Identity, and Public Information Policy After September 11, Peter Shane (Free download, courtesy of The Century Foundation)
• Secrecy as Mystification of Power: Meaning and Ethics in the Security State, Paul Gowder (Free download, courtesy of The Century Foundation)
• Normative Dimensions of Paternalism and Security, Lisa Nelson (Free download, courtesy of The Century Foundation)
• Biosecurity and Secrecy Policy: Problems, Theory, and a Call for Executive Action, Brian J. Gorman (Free download, courtesy of The Century Foundation)
• Federal Secrecy and the States: The Impact of Information Closures on Government Operations, Ryan Lozar (Free download, courtesy of The Century Foundation)
• Using Open Internet Standards to Provide Greater Access in a Post-9/11 World, Ari Schwartz (Free download, courtesy of The Century Foundation)
• Translucence Not Transparency: Reviewing Alasdair Roberts, Blacked Out: Government Secrecy in the Information Age (Cambridge University Press, 2005), Elizabeth Rindskopf Parker (Free download, courtesy of The Century Foundation)
• The Real ID Act: Fixing Identity Documents with Duct Tape, Serge Egelman and Lorrie Faith Cranor (Free download, courtesy of The Century Foundation)
• Privacy, Volume 1, Issue 2/3 (2005)
• Introductory Essay for '2004 Privacy Year in Review', Peter P. Swire (Free download, courtesy of I/S Journal)
• Privacy Year in Review: Privacy Impact Assessments, Airline Passenger Pre-Screening, and Government Data Mining, Sayaka Kawakami, Sarah C. McCarty
• Privacy Year in Review: Growing Problems with Spyware and Phishing, Judicial and Legislative Developments in Internet Governance, and the Impacts on Privacy, Matthew Bierlein, Gregory Smith
• Privacy Year in Review: Developments in HIPAA, Elizabeth Hutton, Devin Barry
• Privacy Year in Review: Recent Developments in the Gramm-Leach Bliley Act, Fair Credit Reporting Act, and Other Acts Affecting Financial Privacy, Steven Robert Roach, William R. Schuerman, Jr.
• Privacy Year in Review: The Intersection of the Rights to Privacy and of a Free Press: Can They Co-Exist?, Gina Angie Lee
• Privacy Year in Review: Canada's Personal Information and Protection and Electronic Documents Act and Japan's Personal Information Protection Act, Asim Z. Haque and Mathiew H. Le
• Privacy Year in Review: Privacy and VoIP Technology , John B. Morris, Jr
• Privacy Year in Review: Recent Changes in the Law of Biometrics , Margaret Betzel
• Privacy Year in Review: America's Privacy Laws Fall Short with RFID Regulation, Katherine Delaney
• Hold the (Internet) Phone! The Implications of Voice-over-Internet Protocol (VoIP) Telephony for National Security and Critical Infrastructure Protection, Emily Frye and Gregory Staiti
• Storing Our Lives Online: Expanded Email Storage Raises Complex Policy Issues, Ari Schwartz, Deirdre Mulligan, and Indrani Mondal
• .NET Passport Under the Scrutiny of U.S. and EU Privacy Law: Implications for the Future of Online Authentication, Olena Dmytrenko and Ali Nardali
• eRulemaking, Volume 1, Issue 1 (2005)
• Welcome from the Deans, Deans Nancy E. Rogers and Mark Wessel (Free download, courtesy of I/S Journal)
• Welcome to I/S, Peter M. Shane (Free download, courtesy of I/S Journal)
• The Future of Citizen Participation in the Electronic State, Beth Simone Noveck, New York Law School (Free download, courtesy of I/S Journal)
• The Internet and Citizen Participation in Rulemaking, Cary Coglianese, Harvard University (Free download, courtesy of I/S Journal)
• Between Commenting and Negotiation: The Contours of Public Participation in Agency Rulemaking, Steven J. Balla, The George Washington University (Free download, courtesy of I/S Journal)
• A Relatedness Analysis Tool for Comparing Drafted Regulations and the Associated Public Comments, Gloria T. Lau, Kincho H. Law and Gio Wiederhold, Stanford University (Free download, courtesy of I/S Journal)
• The Internet Still Might (But Probably Won't) Change Everything, Stuart W. Shulman, University of Pittsburgh (Free download, courtesy of I/S Journal)
• Turning GOLD into EPG: Lessons from Low-Tech Democratic Experimentalism for Electronic Rulemaking and Other Ventures in Cyberdemocracy, Book Review of Archon Fung and Erik Olin Wright, eds., Deepening Democracy: Institutional Innovations in Empowered Participatory Governance (Verso, 2003), Peter M. Shane, Moritz College of Law (Free download, courtesy of I/S Journal)
• Both Medium and Message: HIV/AIDS, Information and Communication in Africa, Lisa Forman, Doctoral Candidate, University of Toronto, Faculty of Law (Free download, courtesy of I/S Journal)

Upcoming Issues

• Privacy, Vol. 6, Issue 1 (2010)