The Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School is a leader in the study of the law and policy around the Internet and other emerging technologies.
Privacy has become one of the defining issue of the Information Age. CIS has received national recognition for its interdisciplinary and multi-angle examination of privacy, particularly as it relates to emerging technology.
Professor Katyal teaches in the areas of intellectual property, property and civil rights at Fordham Law School. Before coming to Fordham, Professor Katyal was an associate specializing in intellectual property litigation in the San Francisco office of Covington & Burling.
She received her A.B. from Brown University in 1993, and her J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School in 1998. Read more » about Sonia Katyal
Assistant Professor, Legal Studies and Business Ethics, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
Dr. Andrea M. Matwyshyn is a leading authority on corporate information security regulation, commercial and consumer privacy law, and technology law. She studies "hackers" - both destructive and entrepreneurial - and the legal and developmental psychology consequences of machine-human convergence, particularly for children. Read more » about Andrea Matwyshyn
Arvind Narayanan is an Assistant Professor at Princeton's Department of Computer Science and Center for Information Technology Policy and an Affiliate Scholar at the Stanford Law School Center for Internet and Society. He studies information privacy and security, and has a side-interest in tech policy. His research has shown that data anonymization is broken in fundamental ways, for which he jointly received the 2008 Privacy Enhancing Technologies Award. Read more » about Arvind Narayanan
By Jennifer Granick • January 16, 2013 at 3:41 pm
Yesterday, Representative Zoe Lofgren introduced on Reddit a bill to improve the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act in the wake of Aaron Swartz's suicide during the pendency of his prosecution for violating various provisions of that law and of the Wire Fraud Act. I've attached Read more » about Thoughts on Zoe Lofgren's CFAA Bill: A Great First Step
By Chuck Cosson • December 14, 2012 at 4:04 pm
In this post, I apply the “tool” metaphor to two common concerns with respect to online services and privacy: profanity in discussion fora and the publication of “creepshots” - public photos (and associated comments) of women taken without the consent of the subject. These two examples help demonstrate the point that thinking of online services as “tools” better generates innovative responses to social concerns, including those where privacy and free expression interests collide. “Tools” call for solutions that change how the service works, while thinking of services as “spaces” calls fo Read more » about Tool Without a Handle: “Kittens, Cities, and Creepshots”
By Jennifer Granick • December 12, 2012 at 4:33 pm
Today, Senator Ron Wyden agreed to forego his procedural hold that would prevent the Senate from voting on extending the FISA Amendments Act, due to expire at the end of this year. In exchange, Wyden will get a floor vote on two important amendments to the proposal. Read more » about Important FAA Amendments Need Public Support
By Ryan Calo • November 21, 2012 at 1:42 pm
The program committee of We Robot: Getting Down To Business invites submissions from legal scholars and roboticists to the second annual conference on robotics and the law, scheduled to take place April 8-9, 2013 at Stanford Law School. Read more » about Call For Papers: Robotics and the Law Conference at Stanford Law School
May 15, 2013
CIS Affiliate Scholar David Levine interviews Oliver Day of the new non-profit Securing Change Read more » about Oliver Day - Hearsay Culture - Show #184 - KZSU-FM
May 8, 2013
CIS Affiliate Scholar David Levine interviews Derek Khanna of the Yale Information Society Project on copyright reform, jailbreaking cell phones and CISPA. Read more » about Derek Khanna - Hearsay Culture - Show #183 - KZSU-FM
April 18, 2013
On April 10, 2013, Stanford's Center for Law and the Biosciences welcomed CIS Affiliate Scholar Ryan Calo to campus for a discussion on law and emerging technology, with an emphasis on spyware for your brain. Read more » about The Center for Law and the Biosciences presents Ryan Calo
April 17, 2013
CIS Affiliate Scholar David Levine interviews Daniel Trottier of the University of Westminster, author of Social Media as Surveillance. Read more » about Daniel Trottier - Hearsay Culture - Show #182 - KZSU-FM
