Published inThe Startup·Oct 8, 2020Breach When the Contract is in the Code — Turning Breach of Smartcontracts from Bug to Feature“The duty to keep a contract at common law means a prediction that you must pay damages if you do not keep it, and nothing else.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes The popular draw of smartcontracts is that they supposedly cannot be breached. As you have probably already read, a smartcontract…Law6 min readLaw6 min read
Published inThe Startup·Sep 24, 2020This Is the (Next-to) Last Smartcontracts Case You’ll Ever ReadThis is the (Next-to) Last Smartcontracts Case You’ll Ever Read “Because ‘defendant [has] offered no competent evidence to demonstrate the existence of a genuine issue of material fact concerning the existence of an arbitration agreement, [the] motion to compel arbitration must be denied as a matter of law without the…Law12 min readLaw12 min read
Published inThe Startup·Sep 9, 20207 Things I Teach My Kids About PrivacyI have studied the data landscape for the last fifteen years. Large segments of our lives that were once private are now recorded, stored, and searchable. Where we drive (are we driving to the doctor? The therapist? The marriage counselor?) is just one example. …Privacy7 min readPrivacy7 min read
Published inThe Startup·Aug 25, 2020We Don’t Want China to Have Our Data, But Who Do We Want to Have It?The TikTok and WeChat bans ordered under somewhat shaky legal grounds by executive order have caused a wave of reflection about what happens to our data. We have reignited concerns about how data travels from phones to governments, and how that data is used to manipulate people. The real benefit…Law5 min readLaw5 min read