Blog
•
Privacy Items of the Week
From SlashDot: Financial Responsibility == Terrorism? NJ Bill Would Prohibit Anonymous Posts on Forums Total Information Awareness Lives On SiteAdvisor Help…
Stanford Center for Internet and Society
Recent articles
Blog
•
The Importance of Net Neutrality
Imagine if your internet service came in different grades: if you were willing to pay $40 per month, your access to the Net would be as fast as possible; if yo…
Blog
•
No Backdoor in Vista?
Even after doing extensive research on the current status of encryption law, I am still somewhat confused. What's the current government strategy for overc…
Blog
•
Congressional Oversight Of Intelligence Sufficient?
When Senator Wyden, D-Oregon, spoke at Stanford Law School on the February 17th, he said he does not have enough information about the NSA warrantless domestic…
Blog
•
iPods as educational tools?
As a recent graduate of Duke, I have been very interested in Duke’s use of ipods in the classroom. My interest may stem from bitterness and envy rather than cu…
Blog
•
Minnesota Republican Party collects voters' data directly
Minnesota Public Radio broke a story (picked up by Slashdot) about a DVD mailing campaign by the Republican Party of Minnesota. The DVD contains a survey which,…
Blog
•
JD Lasica
NOTE NEW DATE Monday February 27, 2006 12:30-1:30 PM Room 280A Stanford Law School Open to All Lunch Served In recent years we've seen the emergence of ne…
Blog
•
Patrick Ball
Monday February 20, 2006 12:30-1:30 PM Room 280A Stanford Law School Open to All Lunch Served Human rights atrocities that occur on a massive scale are often t…
Blog
•
Online consent and EULAs
Is it possible to mount a challenge to ginormous, incomprehensible, take-it-or-leave-it online contracts and EULAs? Maybe, maybe not. But the issue is getting m…
Blog
•
Privacy, Mandatory Fingerprinting, and the Patriot Act
Thousands of prospective law students take something called the LSAT every year. The LSAT - or law school aptitude test - gauges, or purports to gauge, the int…
Blog
•
Internet Culture: Who's Responsible?
Should internet companies spread democracy, privacy, and free speech? Sure, why not? All things being equal, I like democracy, privacy, and free speech as much…
Blog
•
Monitoring and compliance in the ChoicePoint settlement
In January 2006, Choicepoint and FTC settled a case claiming that Choicepoint, a consumer-profiling company, violated the FTC Act and the Fair Credit Reporting…