Paul Ohm

Georgetown University Law Center

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Washington, DC 20001

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SCHOLARLY PAPERS

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Scholarly Papers (16)

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1.

Broken Promises of Privacy: Responding to the Surprising Failure of Anonymization

UCLA Law Review, Vol. 57, p. 1701, 2010, U of Colorado Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 9-12
Number of pages: 77 Posted: 13 Jul 2012 Last Revised: 22 Feb 2015
Paul Ohm
Georgetown University Law Center
Downloads 27,803 (151)
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privacy, information privacy, anonymization, reidentification, deidentification, HIPAA, Data Protection Directive

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The Rise and Fall of Invasive ISP Surveillance

University of Illinois Law Review, 2009, U of Colorado Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 08-22
Number of pages: 83 Posted: 31 Aug 2008 Last Revised: 23 Dec 2013
Paul Ohm
Georgetown University Law Center
Downloads 3,512 (5,761)
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privacy, Internet, cyberlaw, ISP, wiretap, charter, comcast, nebuad, phorm, network neutrality

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The Myth of the Superuser: Fear, Risk, and Harm Online

U of Colorado Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 07-14, UC Davis Law Review Vol. 41, No. 4, Page 1327, April 2008
Number of pages: 77 Posted: 06 Mar 2007 Last Revised: 23 Dec 2013
Paul Ohm
Georgetown University Law Center
Downloads 2,119 (12,850)
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Computer crime, cyberlaw, internet, DRM

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Computer Programming and the Law: A New Research Agenda

Villanova Law Review, Forthcoming, U of Colorado Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 09-08
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 02 Apr 2009
Paul Ohm
Georgetown University Law Center
Downloads 1,782 (16,903)
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computer programming, empirical, experimental, cyberlaw, perl, scraping

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Sensitive Information

Southern California Law Review, Vol. 88, 2015, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 55 Posted: 26 Sep 2014
Paul Ohm
Georgetown University Law Center
Downloads 1,194 (30,814)
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privacy, information privacy, health, financial, education, sensitive, sensitive information

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The Fourth Amendment in a World Without Privacy

Mississippi Law Journal, Vol. 81, No. 5, p. 1309, 2012
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 04 Jun 2012
Paul Ohm
Georgetown University Law Center
Downloads 742 (59,722)

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fourth amendment, criminal procedure, privacy, surveillance, Internet, big data, location, cloud

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Information Privacy Law Scholars' Brief in Spokeo, Inc. v. Robins

UC Berkeley Public Law Research Paper No. 2656482, Minnesota Legal Studies Research Paper No. 15-27, Fordham Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2656482, Loyola Law School, Los Angeles Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2015-32, U. of Pittsburgh Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2015-32
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 06 Sep 2015 Last Revised: 12 Sep 2015
Julie E. Cohen, Chris Jay Hoofnagle, William McGeveran, Paul Ohm, Joel R. Reidenberg, Neil M. Richards, David Thaw and Lauren E. Willis
Georgetown University Law Center, University of California, Berkeley - School of Law, University of Minnesota Law School, Georgetown University Law Center, Fordham University School of Law, Washington University School of Law, University of Pittsburgh - School of Law and Loyola Law School Los Angeles
Downloads 632 (73,493)
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Article III standing, injury, harm, privacy, Fair Credit Reporting Act, FCRA, data brokers, modern hiring practices, consumer reporting, inaccuracy, background checks

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The Analog Hole and the Price of Music: An Empirical Study

Journal on Telecommunications and High Technology Law, Vol. 5, 2007
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 13 Mar 2007
Douglas Sicker, Douglas Sicker, Paul Ohm and Shannon Gunaji
University of Colorado at DenverUniversity of Colorado at Boulder - Department of Computer Science, Georgetown University Law Center and University of Colorado at Boulder
Downloads 518 (94,103)

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analog hole, DRM, copyright, empirical

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Regulating Software When Everything Has Software

George Washington Law Review, Vol. 84, No. 6, 2016, U of Colorado Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 17-16
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 23 Dec 2016 Last Revised: 18 Oct 2017
Paul Ohm and Blake E. Reid
Georgetown University Law Center and University of Colorado Law School
Downloads 461 (108,311)

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administrative law, regulation, technology, software

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Dr. Generative Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the iPhone

Maryland Law Review, Vol. 69, p. 910, 2010, NYLS Legal Studies Research Paper No. 10/11 #8
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 24 Sep 2010
Paul Ohm, James Grimmelmann and James Grimmelmann
Georgetown University Law Center and Cornell Law SchoolCornell Tech
Downloads 279 (188,124)

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Generativity, Internet, Zittrain, Future of the Internet, Architecture, iPhone, Apple II

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Do Blogs Influence SSRN Downloads? Empirically Testing the Volokh and Slashdot Effects

U of Colorado Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 07-15
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 16 Apr 2007
Paul Ohm
Georgetown University Law Center
Downloads 262 (200,442)
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ssrn, blogs, blogging, empirical law, colorful graphs

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Legacy Switches: A Proposal to Protect Privacy, Security, Competition, and the Environment from the Internet of Things

Ohio State Law Journal, Vol 84 Issue 1
Number of pages: 56 Posted: 22 Jul 2022 Last Revised: 12 Apr 2023
Paul Ohm and Nathaniel Kim
Georgetown University Law Center and Georgetown University, Law Center
Downloads 222 (235,483)

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Internet of Things, IoT, Smart device, Consumer, Privacy, Surveillance, Surveillance Capitalism, Informational Capitalism, Security, Information Security, Cybersecurity, Competition, Platform power, Antitrust, Environment, Design, Modularity, Friction, Desirable Inefficiency

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Illusory Conflicts: Post-Employment Clearance Procedures and the FTC's Technological Expertise

Berkeley Technology Law Journal, Vol. 35, No. 3, 2021
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 19 Aug 2021
Lindsey Barrett, Laura Moy, Paul Ohm and Ashkan Soltani
Thomas R. Kline School of Law, Drexel University, Georgetown University Law Center, Georgetown University Law Center and University of California, Berkeley - School of Information
Downloads 73 (545,389)

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Content Sensitivity: Towards a Computational Framework for the Content-Based Test of the First Amendment

Number of pages: 15 Posted: 28 Nov 2023
Ayelet Gordon-Tapiero, Kobbi Nissim, Paul Ohm and Muthuramakrishnan Venkitasubramaniam
Georgetown University, Georgetown University - Department of Computer Science, Georgetown University Law Center and Georgetown University - Department of Computer Science
Downloads 37 (740,569)

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Report of the 1st Workshop on Generative AI and Law

Number of pages: 39 Posted: 30 Nov 2023
A. Feder Cooper, Katherine Lee, James Grimmelmann, James Grimmelmann, Daphne Ippolito, Christopher Callison-Burch, Christopher A. Choquette-Choo, Niloofar Mireshghallah, Miles Brundage, David Mimno, Madiha Zahrah Choksi, Jack M. Balkin, Nicholas Carlini, Christopher De Sa, Jonathan Frankle, Deep Ganguli, Bryant Gipson, Andrés Guadamuz, Swee Leng Harris, Abigail Jacobs, Elizabeth E. Joh, Gautam Kamath, Mark A. Lemley, Cass Matthews, Christine McLeavey, Corynne McSherry, Milad Nasr, Paul Ohm, Adam Roberts, Tom Rubin, Pamela Samuelson, Ludwig Schubert, Kristen Vaccaro, Luis Villa, Felix T. Wu and Elana Zeide
Cornell University - Department of Computer Science, Cornell University - Department of Computer Science, Cornell Law SchoolCornell Tech, Carnegie Mellon University, University of Pennsylvania - Department of Computer and Information Science, Google DeepMind, University of Washington - Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering, affiliation not provided to SSRN, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, Cornell University - Cornell Tech NYC, Yale University - Law School, Google DeepMind, Cornell University - Department of Computer Science, affiliation not provided to SSRN, Anthropic, Google, University of Sussex, Independent, University of Michigan, University of California, Davis - School of Law, University of Waterloo - David R Cheriton School of Computer Science, Stanford Law School, Microsoft, OpenAI, Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), Google DeepMind, Georgetown University Law Center, Google DeepMind, OpenAI, University of California, Berkeley - School of Law, Independent, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University California, San Diego, Tidelift, Yeshiva University - Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law and University of Nebraska Schools of Law and Engineering
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Generative AI, law, copyright, privacy, intellectual property

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Fact and Friction: A Case Study in the Fight Against False News

UC Davis Law Review, Vol. 57, No. 1, 2023
Number of pages: 81
Ayelet Gordon-Tapiero, Paul Ohm and Ashwin Ramaswami
Georgetown University, Georgetown University Law Center and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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