The hippy ethos that birthed early management of the internet is beginning to look quaint. Even as a military project, the core internet concept was a decentralized network of unlimited nodes that could reroute itself around danger and destruction. No one could control it because no one could […]
The EU’s endless regulation imposed on data usage has spooled over into academia, providing another lesson in kneecapping your own society by overregulating it. And they wonder why none of the big internet companies arose from the EU (or ever will). This time, the European data regulators seems […]
“An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.” Benjamin Franklin We don’t know what we are missing. At this point, when some privacy expert or consumer do-gooder bemoans the fact that US consumers give away their private information for free to behemoth enterprises, we all just shrug […]
The Georgia Supreme Court recently decided that state agencies owe no duty to protect Georgia citizen’s personal data. From a recent Womble client alert: According to the highest court in the state, Georgia state government does not have an inherent obligation to protect citizens’ personal or sensitive data like […]
This blog is about technology and society. It is about how humans, primarily Americans, incorporate technology and innovation into our systems by setting rules, defining boundaries, protecting the innocent, punishing the unjust, and recognizing/organizing entirely heretofore unseen sectors of economic growth. We are lawyers by trade and training. […]
