Guarding against the possible Spectre in every machine
Security vulnerabilities in technology extend well beyond problems with software. Earlier this month, researchers revealed that the hardware at the heart of nea…
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Inside Amazon Go: The camera-filled convenience store that watches you back
"“It’s not just the transaction,” said Danielle Citron, a law professor and privacy expert at the University of Maryland’s law school. “Powerful companies…
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The NSA’s voice-recognition system raises hard questions for Echo and Google Home
"Albert Gidari, director of privacy at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society, says that kind of standoff is an inherent problem when platforms are s…
Amazon Go: No checkouts, but you are being watched
Nobody likes to wait in line. So today, Amazon removed that unpleasantness from the neighborhood grocery store. At Amazon Go, you walk in, pick up your grocerie…
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Oh, So Everybody’s a Legal Expert Now: Minnesota v. Diamond, Microsoft Ireland, and User-Hostile Path Dependence in the Law
On January 17, the Minnesota Supreme Court issued its opinion in State v. Diamond. It affirmed the appellate court’s holding that compelling a defendant to prov…
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Law, Borders, and Speech: Intellectual Property
This piece is exerpted from the Law, Borders, and Speech Conference Proceedings Volume. The conference, convened by Stanford's Center for Internet and Socie…
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Linking Is Not Copyright Infringement, Boing Boing Tells Court
"“Boing Boing’s reporting and commenting on the Playboy photos is protected by copyright’s fair use doctrine,” EFF Senior Staff Attorney Daniel Nazer says,…
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Law, Borders, and Speech: Geoblocking Technologies
This piece is exerpted from the Law, Borders, and Speech Conference Proceedings Volume. The conference, convened by Stanford's Center for Internet and Socie…
Copyright, The First Wave of Internet Censorship
When someone wants to remove speech from the Internet, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act’s (DMCA) notice and takedown process can provide the quickest path.…
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Security experts wonder if privacy is going extinct – and at what cost
"“Just how bad is online tracking?” asked Arvind Narayanan, a researcher at Princeton University’s Center for Information Technology Policy, as he made a p…
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Law, Borders, and Speech: The Big Picture
This piece is exerpted from the Law, Borders, and Speech Conference Proceedings Volume. The conference, convened by Stanford's Center for Internet and Socie…
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HTML5 may as well stand for Hey, Track Me Longtime 5. Ads can use it to fingerprint netizens
"In a presentation at Usenix's Enigma 2018 conference in California this week, Arvind Narayanan, an assistant professor of computer science at Princeto…