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 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
February 28, 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 Age (Audio)
February 27, 2012
2012 Stanford Law Review Symposium
February 2-3, 2012
Co-Hosted by the Center for Internet and Society Read more » about Chief Judge Alex Kozinski - Keynote - The Privacy Paradox: Privacy and Its Conflicting Values (Audio)
February 27, 2012
2012 Stanford Law Review Symposium
February 2-3, 2012
Co-Hosted by the Center for Internet and Society
Video Version. Read more » about First Amendment, Tort, and Privacy - The Privacy Paradox: Piracy and Its Conflicting Values (Audio)
