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An interview with Lori about her book from her Simon & Schuster author page.  

In her new book, Lori Andrews explores how our digital identities on the Web—email, personal websites, and social media pages—are starting to overshadow our physical identities.

Lori Andrews Interviews Jennifer Lynch of the Electronic Frontier Foundation

Lori Andrews, author of I Know Who You Are and I Saw What You Did: Social Networks and the Death of Privacy, is creating a Social Network Constitution to protect our rights. Vote on it at www.socialnetworkconstitution.com

Has anything you posted on Facebook, Myspace or Twitter ever come back to haunt you? Tell her about it, [email protected].

50 Cent, Stocks, and Condoms…How a Rapper’s Tweets Can Raise a Legal Issue

Lori Andrews talks to securities law expert William Birdthistle about how 50 Cent’s tweet about a stock skyrocketed its price…and raised legal concerns.

How a Federal Law Strips You of Rights When You Are Attacked in Cyberspace

A horrible anonymous and untrue post about Kenneth Zeran led to death threats against him.  But when he tried to get AOL to take down the post, he learned that he couldn’t find out the name of the person attacking him, nor could he force AOL to take down the untrue and dangerous post.  A federal law, adopted to foster the growth of the internet, said that internet service providers and interactive websites are immune from the types of liability that apply to other publishers.  Kenneth Zeran talks to Lori Andrews about how the law should be fixed to protect the victims of dangerous posts. 

Doctors Suppress Online Reviews

Medical error accounts for 500 deaths each day, or the equivalent of a Boeing 747 airplane crash.  Each month, more people die from medical error than died in the 9/11 attacks.  But when patients post reviews of bad doctors to warn other patients, some doctors take legal action to remove the reviews, stifling patients' freedom of expression.  Law Professor Eric Goldman tells Lori Andrews what can be done.  

 

Does the Smart Grid Violate Your Privacy?

Fox News reporter Michael Flannery talks to Lori about the privacy concerns raised when electrical utilities install computer programs to monitor how much electricity you are using and what you are using it for.    

Cyberharassment

Twenty percent of school children are the target of cyberbullies.  Adults are victimized as well—targeted by ex-boyfriends, business competitors, political enemies, and even strangers.   At Social Media Week in Chicago, Lori Andrews describes some of the victims of cyberharassment—and what people can do to fight back.  

 

Lori has discussed other cutting-edge technologies on television.  See excerpts below.