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Service Meant to Monitor Inmates’ Calls Could Track You, Too
"As long as they are following their own privacy policies, carriers “are largely free to do what they want with the information they obtain, including loca…
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Cal Poly hosts forum to address racism on campus amid another blackface incident
"Another panelist, philosophy professor Patrick Lin, said that expelling a student for non-criminal hate speech isn't really an option for a public uni…
The “Intellectual Dark Web,” explained: what Jordan Peterson has in common with the alt-right
Bari Weiss, an opinion writer and editor at the New York Times, created a stir this week with a long article on a group that calls itself the “Intellectual Dark…
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Artificial intelligence art -- who owns the copyright?
If your pet dog Hans takes a selfie, does he own the copyright? A recent decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (“Ninth Circuit”) is instru…
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Did YouTube Phenomenon Poppy Steal Her Style From Another Star?
""You'll notice the complaint is very vague when it comes to what works actually infringe—there's just a lot of hand-waving about global simil…
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Stanford Law School Appoints Jennifer King as Director of Consumer Privacy, Center for Internet and Society
Stanford Law School today announced the appointment of Dr. Jennifer King as Director of Consumer Privacy at the Center for Internet and Society (CIS). Dr. King…
We Don’t Need a National Data Center of the Poor
In data privacy, as in so many other matters, past is prologue. Fifty years ago, there were calls for a “National Data Center” amassing all personal data collec…
Toward a Clearer Conversation About Platform Liability
Read the full response at Emerging Threats. CIS Intermediary Liability Director Daphne Keller drafted this piece for the Knight First Amendment Institute’s “Em…
Hard Questions: Why Does Facebook Enable End-to-End Encryption?
End-to-end encryption is a powerful tool for security and safety. It lets patients talk to their doctors in complete confidence. It helps journalists communicat…
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Uber sets safety review; media report says software cited in fatal crash
"Bryant Walker Smith, a self-driving car expert and law professor at the University of South Carolina, said in an email that the report by The Information…
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'It's time to do it differently': Cal Poly forum on racism calls for forward movement
"A question was asked about Kyler Watkins, the former fraternity member who was photographed in blackface, and the numerous calls for him to be expelled fr…
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Drowning in privacy-related email updates? Tips on what to look for
"“If you walked up to the average person on the street in the U.S. and ask them about GDPR, they’d probably say, ‘Is that a hockey team?’ ” said Albert Gid…