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How Advertising Dollars Encourage Nuisance and Harmful Adware and What Can be Done to Reverse the Trend (Mar. 2006)





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Articles

• Leslie Harris and John Morris, We've Met the Enemy and it is the Messenger, The Huffington Post, May 28 2008.
• Leslie Harris, You May Already Be a Criminal: What MySpace Suicide Case Could Mean for You, ABC News, May 22, 2008.
• James X. Dempsey, Federal Computer Security Initiative: Welcome But Too Secretive, Forbes, May 13, 2008
• Leslie Harris, When Health Care and Privacy Meet Online: Health Care Records Are Going Online. Can Privacy Be Maintained?, April 17th, 2008.
• Leslie Harris, When the Privacy Band-aid Fails: The passport breach scandal exposes a much larger security lapse, ABC News, March 26, 2008.
• Marit Hansen, Ari Schwartz, Alissa Cooper, "Privacy and Identity Management," IEEE Security and Privacy, vol. 6, no. 2, pp. 38-45, Mar/Apr, 2008
• Leslie Harris, MySpace: Coming of Age for Coming of Age, ABC News, Feb. 28, 2008
• Leslie Harris, Government Fails to Enforce Privacy on New IDs, ABC News, January 25, 2008.
• Sophia Cope, New Regulations Fail to Address Security, Privacy, CNET News.com, Jan. 31, 2008
• Leslie Harris, Google's DoubleClick Deal Brings Greater Focus on Privacy, ABC News, December 21, 2007.
• Leslie Harris, Who's Tracking Your Web Movements? Privacy Policies Are Not Enough, According to Tech Group, ABC News, December 4, 2007.
• Leslie Harris, The Slippery Slope of Web Censorship: From China to the U.S., the Global Implications of Internet Blocking, ABC News, October 25, 2007
• James X. Dempsey, The Internet at Risk: The Need for Higher Education Advocacy, EDUCAUSE Review, Vol. 42, No. 6, November/December 2007
• Ari Schwartz, A turn in the antispyware war? CNet News, October 3, 2007
• Leslie Harris, Creating Marketplace Competition for Privacy, ABC News, August 15, 2007
• Leslie Harris, High Speed Alternatives May Be Coming Soon, ABC News, June 14, 2007
• Leslie Harris and Matt Stoller, Inexplicable anomaly, The Hill, May 15, 2007
• Ari Schwartz, Congressional Research Service ought to be open to public, The Examiner April 18, 2007
• John Morris and Jon Peterson, Who's Watching You Now?, IEEE Security and Privacy Magazine, Vol. 5, Issue 1 (January/February 2007)
• "Evaluating DRM: Building a Marketplace for the Convergent World," in the December 2006 issue of BNA International's World Data Protection Report
• CDT, Interpreting Grokster: Limits on the Scope of Secondary Liability for Copyright Infringement, 2006 Stanford Technology Law Review 3 (June 2006)
• Jerry Berman, Security, Privacy and Government Access to Commercial Data, in "Protecting What Matters; Technology, Security, and Liberty since 9/11," Clayton Northouse, ed., Brookings Institution Press and the Computer Ethics Institute, 2006
• Nancy Libin, The anxious new dawn of cybersnooping, CNet News, May 3, 2006
• James X. Dempsey and Ira Rubinstein, Lawyers and Technologists: Joined at the Hip?, Guest Editors' Introduction to IEEE Security and Privacy Magazine, Vol. 4, Issue 3 (May/June 2006)
• Leslie Harris and John Morris, Hensarling Bill Would Do Too Little, and Too Much, Roll Call, March 14, 2006
• Jim Dempsey, Got Data? Beware Privacy Pitfalls, Big Brother, A Q & A with CDT's Policy Director, Intelligence Enterprise Magazine, January 30, 2006
• John Morris, "Privacy and VoIP Technology," I/S Journal of Law and Policy for the Information Society, Vol. 1 (2005)
• Ari Schwartz, Deirdre Mulligan, and Indrani Mondal, "Storing Our Lives Online: Expanded Email Storage Raises Complex Policy Issues," I/S Journal of Law and Policy for the Information Society, Vol. 1 (2005)
• David Sohn, The benefits of mutual distrust, Cnet News.com, August 25, 2005
• John Morris, "The Past, Present, and Future of Internet Censorship and Free Speech Advocacy," in "Defending the First: Commentary on First Amendment Issues and Cases," J. Russomanno, editor (Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Publishers 2005)
• James X. Demspey, essays on PATRIOT Act provisions, in "Patriot Debates: Experts Debate the USA PATRIOT Act," Stewart A. Baker and John Kavanagh, editors (published by the American Bar Association Standing Committee on Law and National Security, June 2005). Text online at http://www.patriotdebates.com. Order hardcopy at: http://www.abanet.org/abapubs/books/3550018
• John Morris, Alan Davidson, Policy Impact Assessments: Considering the Public Interest in Internet Standards Development [pdf] TPRC September 2003
• James X. Dempsey and Lara M. Flint, Commercial Data and National Security, The George Washington Law Review, Vol 72, Number 6 (August 2004)
• John Morris, Look at the Bare Naked Facts [pdf] Legal Times March 2004
• Jerry Berman and Paula J. Bruening, Can Spam Be Stopped?, Legal Times, June 16, 2003
• James X. Dempsey, What E-Government Means for Those of Us Who Cannot Type, Local Government Brief, Winter 2003, p. 22
• Jerry Berman and Lara Flint, Guiding Lights: Intelligence Oversight and Control for the Challenge of Terrorism Criminal Justice Ethics, Vol. 22, No. 1 (Winter/Spring, 2003)
• James X. Dempsey, "Civil Liberties in a Time of Crisis," Journal of the National Council of Jewish Women, Winter 2001/2002
• James X. Dempsey and David Cole, Terrorism and the Constitution (New Press, 2002)
• Jerry Berman, Congress Needs a Great Tech Debate [pdf], Legal Times, October 28, 2002
• Alan Davidson, John Morris and Rob Courtney, Strangers in a Strange Land: Public Interest Advocacy and Internet Standards [pdf] TPRC September 2002
• John Morris, "The Elements of Location Tracking and Privacy Protection," in "Geographic Location in the Internet," B. Sarikaya, editor (Kluwer Academic Publisher 2002)
• James X. Dempsey, "Civil Liberties in a Time of Crisis," Human Rights, Winter 2002
• Paula Bruening, "Consumer Privacy in the Electronic Marketplace" National Legal Center for the Public Interest, August 2001
• Jerry Berman and Paula Bruening, "Is Privacy Still Possible in the Twenty-first Century?," Social Research, Spring 2001
• Ari Schwartz's monthly columns in Federal Computer Week magazine, January 2001 - February 2002
• James X. Dempsey, Freedom of Expression in the IT Era: User Empowerment, Report of the IPI World Congress and 50th General Assembly [PDF] (January 2001)
• Michael J. O'Neil and James X. Dempsey, 2000 DePaul Business Law Journal: Critical Infrastructure Protection: Threats To Privacy And Other Civil Liberties And Concerns With Government Mandates On Industry
• Ari Schwartz and Deirdre Mulligan, "Your Place or Mine?: Privacy Concerns and Solutions," Computers, Freedom and Privacy Conference (CFP), April 2000
• Jerry Berman and John B. Morris, Jr., "The Broadband Internet: The End of the Equal Voice?", CFP, April 2000
• Deirdre Mulligan and James X. Dempsey, "Applying Campaign Finance Law to the Internet - Risks to Free Expression and Democratic Values," CFP, April 2000
• James X. Dempsey, "Overview of Criminal Justice Information Systems," CFP, April 2000
• Deirdre Mulligan, Ann Cavoukian, Ari Schwartz and Michael Gurski, "P3P and Privacy: An Update for the Privacy Community," CFP, March 2000
• Jerry Berman and Deirdre Mulligan, 1999 Nova Law Review: Privacy in the Digital Age: Work in Progress
• James X. Dempsey, 1997 Albany Law Journal of Science & Technology: Communications Privacy In The Digital Age: Revitalizing The Federal Wiretap Laws To Enhance Privacy