Why Privacy is Like Bubble Wrap

Today is Data Privacy Day, a great time to remember that we live our lives increasingly in visible, recorded ways, and that privacy is something that belongs to all of us and to each of us. Also, it’s a day when privacy professionals post jargon-filled memes that no one understands. “Did you hear the one… Read More

Why the Dancing Robots Are A Really, Really Big Problem.

Like most lawyers, I’m on Twitter a lot and, like most lawyers, I spend most of my time tweeting in an effort to seem funny.  (To say the responses are “mixed” would be to assume that I ever get responses).  But occasionally, something will crop up that demands a response more nuanced than 280 characters… Read More

Analog Thinking in a Digital Age

Okay, There’s An App For That. Why? Ho boy.  The Iowa Caucuses were…they happened.  And they happened in a way that was both completely unprecedented and utterly, exhaustingly predictable.  It’s a story line that’s becoming, frankly, a little boring: people use old process, someone decides that an app (or AI) will be better, lots of… Read More

Groundhog Day(s)

Any philosophy nerd will tell you that they’ve loved having The Good Place on TV the last few years.  It’s rare we’re able to find a safe space to talk about the Trolley Problem, or consider the Question of Evil, or hear Kierkegaard’s name pronounced (mostly) properly.  It’s a great show, and one that consistently… Read More