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Posted By tdrapeau 8 months ago in NewsLast year, when law professor Joel Reidenberg wanted to show his Fordham University class how readily private information is available on the Internet, he assigned a group project. It was collecting personal information from the Web about himself.
This year, after U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia made public comments that seemingly may have questioned the need for more protection of private information, Reidenberg assigned the same project. Except this time Scalia was the subject, the prof explains to the ABA Journal in a telephone interview.
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tdrapeau8 months ago
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Found this via Boing Boing: http://www.boingboing.net/2009/05/04/scalia-scoffs...
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Read the comments at the source URL--whoever said lawyers were boring? Some fun back and forth there. -
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gamahuche8 months ago
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Great story Tom!
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So many judicious elements woven together.
I have to admit that seeing Scalia hoist on his own petard was my favourite piece but the fact that the Professor used himself as the "model" the previous year created a perfect foil. -
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