Stephen E. Arnold: Factoids — Dark Web, Child Porn, Lost Time…

Factualities: Believe Them or Not Posted: 31 Jul 2018 06:03 PM PDT Factualities quantify our online world. Today’s data: 80 percent of Dark Web visits relate to child porn. Source: Wired When organizations do not restrict any internet activity, over half of employees (58 percent) spend at least four hours per week, on Web sites …

John M. Newman: The Myth of the Free (George Washington Law Review, 86/2, March 2018) – Death Roll for #GoogleGestapo

The Myth of Free 86 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. 513 The task is urgent: the Myth of Free is not benign. It has misled courts into granting protected legal status to Free-product suppliers in cases ranging from contract disputes to antitrust and privacy litigation. It has also motivated policy proposals that call for eliminating market interventions—or competitive …

Stephen E. Arnold: Forbes Tests Amazon’s Police State Capability Rekognition

Forbes Does a Semi Rah Rah for Amazon Rekognition …based on conversations with those in my lectures, two categories of comments and questions capture the reaction to the US government documents I reviewed. First, Europeans do not think about Amazon as anything other than a vendor of products and a service which allows relatively low …