""All Facebook users have to understand that the reason that the firm is so profitable is because our data is gold, and we're giving it away for f…
The questions surrounding the role of Facebook and other social media sites in the politics of our time have been coming at what feels like an accelerating pace…
"“What they did was a straightforward strategy already used by advertisers selling toothpaste and shoes,” said Ben Scott, an outside technology adviser to…
"“These tools are common, widespread, intrusive and legal,” said Al Gidari, consulting director of privacy at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society.…
On Wednesday, the Trump administration appointed the renowned computer science professor Ed Felten to the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB). T…
"The Wiener bill is more comprehensive than the others and would “match the level of protection” of the FCC’s 2015 net neutrality rules, at least within Ca…
On Wednesday, Senator Scott Wiener introduced the text of California Senate Bill 822, which would adopt net neutrality protections for California. The bill is c…
""The bill ensures that ISPs like Comcast, AT&T, and Verizon can't use their power over the on-ramps to the internet to interfere with the fre…
"The legislation "is the first state-level bill that would comprehensively secure all of the net neutrality protections that Americans currently enjoy…
"Barbara van Schewick, a law professor at Stanford University who specializes in internet regulation, doesn’t believe the the FCC’s pre-emption clause will…
"Daphne Keller, a former Google lawyer now at Stanford’s Center for Internet and Society, agreed that the “knowingly” language is problematic. “It creates…
For decades, U.S. policies on international data sharing have balanced privacy, principles of comity (respect for the jurisdiction of other countries), and resp…