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.
I'm a Non-Residential Fellow with CIS. I work mainly on Privicons, but I'm also interested in copyright/fair use, consumer privacy issues, and free speech. I have a JD from Stanford and a BA from William & Mary. Read more » about Ethan Forrest
Professor Danielle Citron is the Lois K. Macht Research Professor of Law. She teaches Civil Procedure, Information Privacy Law, Internet Speech, and LAWR I. She was voted the "Best Teacher of the Year" by the University of Maryland law school students in 2005.
Chuck Cosson is Senior Corporate Counsel, Privacy, at T-Mobile USA, based in Bellevue, WA. At T-Mobile, Chuck oversees privacy compliance programs and provides privacy guidance on mobile Internet, location services and other business issues. Chuck spent 7 years at Microsoft leading the company’s public policy work on human rights, free expression, and child online safety. He has also worked in Washington, D.C. Read more » about Chuck Cosson
Catherine Crump is an attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union. She litigates cases on many issues, from challenges to invasive government surveillance programs, to protecting the right to engage in political protest, to suing police officers for excessive force. Current cases include constitutional challenges to the government’s authority to engage in suspicionless searches of laptops at the international border and to its assertion that it can track the location of cell phones without a warrant. Read more » about Catherine Crump
By Daniel Nazer • May 11, 2012 at 6:16 pm
With cell phone cameras everywhere, it has become common for members of the public to film encounters with the police. Whether the police are behaving professionally or engaged in an unprovoked assault, citizen video provides oversight and potential evidence. But some officers are unhappy with this form of public accountability and have responded by arresting people who try to film them. In an important decision this week, the Seventh Circuit ruled in ACLU v. Alvarez that the public has a First Amendment right to film police. Read more » about Seventh Circuit Upholds First Amendment Right to Film Police
By Woodrow Hartzog • April 26, 2012 at 10:04 am
I have just uploaded a new essay about online privacy to SSRN that will appear in Volume 46 of the Georgia Law Review. The essay, titled "Chain-Link Confidentiality," asserts that personal information that is shared online can be better protected if we require our confidants to make sure that their confidants are watching out for us. This strategy could help us retain control over our personal information as it moves downstream. Your comments are warmly welcome. Read more » about Chain-Link Confidentiality
By Ryan Calo • March 5, 2012 at 12:58 pm
The Examiner is reporting that a prototype drone crashed into a Texas Montgomery Read more » about Drone Crash
By Jonathan Mayer • February 21, 2012 at 4:00 pm
Our recent research on Google’s circumvention of the Safari cookie blocking feature has led to some confusion, in part owing to the company’s statement in response (reproduced in its entiretybelow). This post is an attempt to elucidate the central issues. As with the original writeup, I aim for a neutral viewpoint in the interest of establishing a common factual understanding. Read more » about Setting the Record Straight on Google’s Safari Tracking
April 23, 2012
In his talk, Alessandro Acquisti links two streams of research he is conducting at Carnegie Mellon University: the "behavioral economics of privacy," and the study of privacy and disclosure behavior in online social networks. First, he will highlight how research in behavioral economics can help us make sense of apparent inconsistencies in privacy (and security) decision-making, and will present results from a variety of experiments in this area he conducted at Carnegie Mellon University. Read more » about Privacy in the Age of Augmented Reality - Alessandro Acquisti - Audio
April 23, 2012
In his talk, Alessandro Acquisti links two streams of research he is conducting at Carnegie Mellon University: the "behavioral economics of privacy," and the study of privacy and disclosure behavior in online social networks. First, he will highlight how research in behavioral economics can help us make sense of apparent inconsistencies in privacy (and security) decision-making, and will present results from a variety of experiments in this area he conducted at Carnegie Mellon University. Read more » about Privacy in the Age of Augmented Reality - Alessandro Acquisti - Video
February 29, 2012
STLR Symposium 2012 - Co-Hosted by the Center for Internet and Society
February 28, 2012
STLR Symposium 2012 - Co-Hosted by the Center for Internet and Society Read more » about Taking Forgetting Seriously - 2012 STLR Symposium - First Amendment Challenges in the Digital (Video)
