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
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.
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Is US government reading email without a warrant? It doesn't want to talk about it
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Our FTC Privacy Story And Its Critics
On June 28, ProPublica published a story by Peter Maass about the Federal Trade Commission and its efforts to protect the online privacy of consumers. The headline of the story was "How a Lone Graduate Student Scooped the Government and What It Means for Your Online Privacy." The 5,500 word article opened with an explanation of how a Stanford computer science student, Jonathan Mayer, conducted research through which he discovered earlier this year that Google was circumventing the privacy settings on a large number of iPhones and placing tracking cookies on them. The story credited Mr. Read more about Our FTC Privacy Story And Its Critics
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Your FTC Privacy Watchdogs: Low-Tech, Defensive, Toothless
Jonathan Mayer had a hunch. Read more about Your FTC Privacy Watchdogs: Low-Tech, Defensive, Toothless