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Author: James Grimmelmann

Associate Professor, New York Law School

Why Data Havens Don’t Work

On April 1, 2012 By James GrimmelmannIn Uncategorized

Seven miles off the English coast in the North Sea stands a steel and concrete platform that was, for a time, the world's most impractical data center. A pair of American entrepreneurs launched HavenCo in 2000 as a "data haven"--a place for gamblers, freethinkers, and dissidents to put their bits far beyond the reach of …

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3.75 Million Lawbreaking Parents

On November 16, 2011 By James GrimmelmannIn Uncategorized

The Department of Justice would like the authority to put millions of American parents in prison. Don't believe me? Read on. A House Judiciary Committee hearing today considered the federal computer crime statute, the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, known to its friends as the CFAA. Among other things, the Act punishes anyone who "exceeds …

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The Social Media Collective (SMC) is a network of social science and humanistic researchers, part of the Microsoft Research labs in New England and New York. It includes full-time researchers, postdocs, interns, and visitors. Beginning in 2009, the researchers who now lead the initiative are: Nancy Baym, danah boyd, Kate Crawford, Tarleton Gillespie, and Mary Gray. Our primary purpose is to provide rich contextual understanding of the social and cultural dynamics that underpin social media technologies. We use a variety of methodologies and span multiple disciplines.

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