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Notorious hacker "Weev" joins Hufftington Post after being found guilty on charges of breaching AT&T's security. Is his conviction a blow to free speech? Or simple justice? Read more » about Weev Speaks
Ryan Calo, an assistant professor at the University of Washington School of Law and my go-to source on all things robot: “The fact that the cameras resemble people has two effects, arguably at tension. On the one hand, mannequins accentuate the perception of observation, and hence the subjective privacy harm to casual shoppers. Some scholars explain the discomfort people feel with cameras by talking about the cameras as stand ins for people. Here, the cameras are people—or at least feel like them to us.” Read more » about Why Do Mannequins That Spy On Us Creep Us Out?
""It's not something you're legally required to do," says Daniel Nazer, a resident fellow at Stanford Law School's Fair Use Project. "There's a big distinction between the culture of the content industry and the law."" Read more » about Is That A Budweiser In Your Hand?: Product Placement, Booze, And Denzel Washington
""If somebody mistakenly puts information out there on the web and somebody mistakenly gets that information, that's not illegal," says Jennifer Granick, a lawyer and the director of the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford." Read more » about The Internet’s Best Terrible Person Goes to Jail: Can a Reviled Master Troll Become a Geek Hero?
""Stanford's Center for Internet and Society has had endless patience with DNT taking time far in excess of what I anticipated," McDonald said in a mailing list post announcing Swire that is replacing her." Read more » about Privacy professor to try to break Do Not Track logjam
"If you could just post something and change a relationship, you could just go to Banana Republic and say 'Oh, is your return policy 30 days? Well my return policy is 60 days, so I'll see you then,'" says Calo.
Read full story. Read more » about Facebook Post Implying User Privacy a Hoax
"“Technology is a fact about the world. Those facts have changed,” Calo told me. “The law is not unfamiliar with drawing new lines.”" Read more » about Seattle’s ‘creepy cameraman’ questions our comfort with being watched
Currently the government doesn't need a search warrant -- just a subpoena -- to access emails stored longer than 180 days, said Jennifer Granick, director of civil liberties for the Stanford Law School Center for Internet and Society." Read more » about Petraeus case triggers concerns about Americans' online privacy
"Fair use is a "very gray area," says Julie Ahrens, who runs the Fair Use Project at Stanford University's Center for Internet and Society. "There are lots of things that are not clear."" Read more » about Famed quotation isn't dead -- and could even prove costly
"Trademark laws "don't exist to give companies the right to control and censor movies and TV shows that might happen to include real-world items," said Daniel Nazer, a resident fellow at Stanford Law School's Fair Use Project." Read more » about Alcohol in "Flight" puts trademark laws in focus
"How can they (law enforcement) shepherd us into an age when we have drones if they don't deal with people's privacy fears?" said Ryan Calo, a faculty member at the University of Washington School of Law who has written on the issue of drones and privacy. Read more » about Use of drones by Seattle police strikes a nerve
""They just basically drag the net through these set of activists...and just basically [say], 'Let's get what we can and see what it turns up,'" says Jen Read more » about Chevron Subpoenas Google and Others for Private Email Info
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"Sometimes things are protected not by the law but by the act of having to go look it up," said Ryan Calo, a professor at the University of Washington School of Law. "Now, in the Internet age, where everything is organized so neatly, and quickly, the question then becomes — and this is a question people have taken a couple whacks at — does the law need to respond to changes in technology?" Read more » about Zillow now lists homes in foreclosure
"Es ist wie mit anderen Errungenschaften auch, die zunächst überwiegend vom Militär genutzt wurden", sagt Ryan Calo von der Washington State University: "Es gab das Computerzeitalter, dann das Internetzeitalter. Jetzt kommt das Robotikzeitalter." Seit vielen Jahren schon forscht der Rechts- und Roboterexperte Calo zu Drohnen. Read more » about Angst vor den fliegenden Augen