The financial privacy law passed by Congress in 1999 has been the target of scathing criticism. On one side, banks and other financial institutions have complained about the high costs of the billions of notices sent to consumers, apparently to widespread consumer indifference. On the other side, privacy
The foundational White Paper\Copyright and Digital Media in a Post-Napster World, by the Berkman Center for Internet Society and GartnerG2, explores a variety of issues surrounding the current digital media ecosystem. The White Paper examines
We might distinguish between two types of constitutional re- gimes, one codifying, the other transformative. A codifying consti- tutional regime aims at preserving something essential from the then- current constitutional or legal culture to protect it against change in the future; a transformative constitutional regime aims at changing g something essential in the then-current constitutional or legal cul- ture to make it different in the future. The picture of the codifying
1. Introduction This section discusses the legal protection of information and the security issues of computer data and electronic information systems and is organised into four parts: First, it focuses briefly on the basic conceptual distinction between information and data, providing a basis of understanding of the primary object of legal and technical means of protection. Second, access to Government information will be discussed