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When Nilay Patel was four years old, he drove a Chrysler into a small pond because he was trying to learn how the gearshift worked. Years later, he became a technology journalist. He has thus far remained dry.
Before serving as Managing Editor of The Verge, Nilay spent four years as Managing Editor of Engadget, where he drew upon his background as a lawyer to report and explain complex legal situations in everyday terminology — a niche that led to SAY Media naming Nilay one of 10 "voices that matter" in technology journalism.
Nilay has appeared on CNN, CNN International, NPR, Fox News, MSNBC, Sky News, NHK, G4TV, TWiT, and others. He also co-hosts The Vergecast with fellow editors Joshua Topolsky and Paul Miller.
Nilay received an AB in Political Science from the University of Chicago in 2003 and his J.D. from the University of Wisconsin Law School in 2006. He is also married to a major babe.
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Posted: The iPhone 5s: fingerprint sensor and improved camera, starts at $199 and coming September 20th
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Sad confession: that could definitely just be me in 2006.
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Actually, the Google forum is coming soon. We just wrapped it into another slightly bigger project that we’re also very excited about. Just wait for it!
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How can you hand me your resignation when I’ve already quit?
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We definitely don’t write stories based on SEO. Absolutely not.
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Added!
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Posted: Android KitKat: the story behind a delicious partnership
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Posted: Android KitKats around the world
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I am very sorry we tricked you into reading a well-reported 800 word article on the non-obvious causes of an interesting trend. Please send in your coupon for a refund.
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Posted: What exactly did Microsoft just buy from Nokia? A visual guide
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Whoa. Dedication!
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David does lots of reviews because he’s our senior reviews editor. I edit his reviews and he edits everyone else, including me and Josh. This is not a free-for-all; we all work very closely together.
And speaking personally as someone who took this exact same heat the last time I said a Droid sucked in a review, I really can’t say I’m worried at all that we’re wrong.
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Recommended dotbran's comment in Back to school feature - quite heavy
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Recommended dz's comment in Have you thought about making the site fully responsive?
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Skinny jeans: how tapered is too tapered?
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UI is much, much faster. Read the review! :)
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Do you have Comcast? It works in Xfinity VOD in something like 20 markets.
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Posted: TiVo Roamio Pro review: this is the ultimate cable box
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Posted: TiVo announces Roamio DVR line: a four-tuner cord-cutting dream for $199
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The issue has never arisen because such a business was essentially impossible prior to the modern information age.
It sounds then like we need a better privacy policy generally embedded in the law, not to wait for Google to argue against its own interests in a pretty lame class-action suit filed by this guy.
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There is actually a LOT of interplay between these two things, and a lot of doctors and lawyers and other professionals caught up in discussion of whether cloud-service providers like Google Apps can meet their legal confidentiality requirements under the current state of the law.
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The “also” in in reference to the fact that this is Google’s fourth argument in this section. “Not only should we win because of X, but also because of Y.”
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I don’t fault Google’s lawyers for trying to carve out the widest possible scope of protection; that’s their job. But it is a free and vibrant market of email service providers: users can make a choice of which ones they want to use, and you can choose to communicate with people across a multitude of solutions. If I hire Google to run my email and you choose to communicate with me through Gmail, I’m not sure why the consequences of your choice create liability for the service provider I’ve chosen.
It really is like suing a temp firm because you don’t like that the secretary I’ve hired from them is managing my phone calls and physical mail for me per their description of services.
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Google is your service provider — you agree to have them provide you with email services. You are definitely responsible for choosing your email service provider.
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No, they should expect that the email service of their recipient will do the things that that email service does. Just like if I hired an assistant to manage my physical mail, you should expect that writing me a letter would pass through that person.
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The article I linked was a discussion of Sotomayor’s concurrence and how the 3PD might lead to dramatically different outcomes with modern technology in the same case.
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When you send a letter to the President, do you expect his staff to open it and check for anthrax?
Does that violate your privacy? It’s the same argument.
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Under ECPA sure, but Google has a privacy policy and users have the contractual right to expect it will be enforced. And the FTC is very active in regulating those agreements. I think it can all be better, but it’s not fair to say there’s no expectation at all to a layman.
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University of Wisconsin, 2006. Licensed in Illinois and Wisconsin. :)
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