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A Voice of VR, Episode #951

Several weeks ago, I was invited to join Kent Bye’s podcast to discuss the state of U.S. privacy law. Kent’s Voices of VR Podcast is mandatory listening if one is interested in virtual reality and immersive technologies, and I’m a huge fan. Getting to geek out with Kent for a few hours was a personal treat.

We cover a lot of ground from the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation, the history of U.S. privacy law, and the ongoing state and federal debate about comprehensive privacy laws. I occasionally try to inject my own asides about the importance of biometrics laws and my concerns about invoking surveillance capitalism. The full episode is available here — and a citation-filled transcript is also available to download here.

An Imbecilic Constitution Podcast

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September 17th is Constitution Day, a day of government-mandated celebration that some have argued is blatantly unconstitutional. Professor Nelson Lund has suggested that Constitution Day could be used as a day to critically examine our founding document, and inspired by his suggestion, I sought out to interview Sanford Levinson, who’s been a longtime critic of our Constitution.

In the first of what I’m going to call the “What Does Joe Know Show,” I speak to Professor Levinson about the current (or should I say ongoing?) crisis of governance in Washington, how the Constitution is to blame, and what comes next.

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Digital Market Manipulation Podcast

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The other week, Rebecca Rosen wrote up a fantastic overview of Professor Ryan Calo’s new paper on “Digital Market Manipulation” in The Atlantic.  “What Does It Really Matter If Companies Are Tracking Us Online?” she provocatively asked in her headline.

Conveniently, I was scheduled to speak with Professor Calo about his essay Consumer Subject Review Boards — A Thought Experiment, which looks at how institutional review boards (IRBs) were put in place to ensure ethical human testing standards and suggests a similar framework could be brought to bear on consumer data projects.

I was able to ask him about the concept of digital market manipulation, which seems to move beyond mere “privacy” concerns into questions of fundamental fairness and equality.

From Cyberspace to Big Data Podcast

In the run-up to the Future of Privacy Forum’s “Big Data and Privacy” workshop with the Stanford Center for Internet & Society, I’ve taken to podcasting again, speaking with scholars who couldn’t attend the conference.  First up was Professor Bill McGeveran, who prepared an essay looking over lessons from the 2000 Stanford symposium on “Cyberspace and Privacy: A New Legal Paradigm?”

Of course, now the buzzword has moved from cyberspace to big data.  McGeveran suggests big data is really seeing a replay of the same debates cyberspace saw a decade ago.  Among the parallels he highlights are (1) the propertization of data, (2) technological solutions like P3P, (4) First Amendment questions, and (4) the challenges posed by the privacy myopia.

ACS Law Talk Episode 11: The Future of LGBT Equality

After many months, my former employer has posted an interview I conducted with Nan Hunter, an associate dean and constitutional law scholar at Georgetown Law Center, and Nancy Polikoff, a professor of law and an expert on sexuality and the law.  To mark the Supreme Court’s hearing of two cases impacting same-sex marriage, I spoke to the pair by phone to preview the arguments and what legal question comes next for the LGBT community.

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