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In Standoff with FTC, Wyndham Shoots Itself in the Foot
The Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) resounding victory over Wyndham Worldwide Corporation in a U.S. District Court paves the way for increasing privacy and dat…
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Browsing with Tor: Online Anonymity to Outsmart the NSA - Tom Lowenthal
CIS Tech Workshop with Tom Lowenthal - Browsing with Tor: Online Anonymity to Outsmart the NSA https://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/events/cis-tech-workshop-tom-lowen…
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Will Target’s Lawsuit Finally Expose the Failings of Security Audits?
"“As data security becomes a progressively more important aspect of corporate governance, and as consumers become progressively more concerned with the sta…
Anupam Chander - Surveillance Along the Electronic Silk Road: China and the United States
View the video: http://youtu.be/EOwFf_aOpe0 Surveillance Along the Electronic Silk Road: China and the United States Lunch time talk with Anupam Chander 1.28.2…
In re EPIC: The Challenge to the NSA Telephone Record Collection Program (Video)
Co-Hosted by the Stanford Law and Technology Association and Stanford CIS. Download audio from this talk. Marc Rotenberg is President and Executive Director of…
In re EPIC: The Challenge to the NSA Telephone Record Collection Program (Audio)
Co-Hosted by the Stanford Law and Technology Association and Stanford CIS. Watch video from this talk. Marc Rotenberg is President and Executive Director of the…
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UK High Court Orders ISP to Block IP Address, Erroneously Takes Down Hundreds of Sites
A recent UK case shows how court orders mandating ISPs to block access to IP numbers hosting allegedly infringing websites can go wrong. The London High Court,…
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Big Data and Privacy: Thank You
Thank you to everyone who attended and participated in the Big Data and Privacy we co-hosted last week. A collection of proceedings form the conference will be…
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CIS Affiliate Scholars Win Best Paper Award at 2013 PLSC
CIS affiliates Ryan Calo and Woodrow Hartzog won the two best paper awards at the 2013 Privacy Law Scholars Conference. Ryan Calo for his paper “Digital Market…
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ODNI Statements Continue to Mislead the Public
Senior U.S. officials continue to mislead the public about NSA surveillance. As the Washington Post reported today, "details that have emerged from the ex…
Towards learning from losing Aaron Swartz
Al Jazeera republished Jennifer Granick's two part blog postTowards learning from losing Aaron Swartz. * Publication Type:Other Writing * Publication Dat…
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Privacy professor to try to break Do Not Track logjam
""Stanford's Center for Internet and Society has had endless patience with DNT taking time far in excess of what I anticipated," McDonald sai…