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…
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Microsoft Says AI Advances Will Require New Laws, Regulations
"Microsoft is working on some of these areas through groups such as the Partnership on AI, which includes rivals like Amazon.com Inc., Alphabet Inc.’s Goog…
American Democracy Is an Easy Target
The American foreign-policy community has spent the past year arguing about how to counter Russian influence operations. Newspapers such as the New York Times h…
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Law, Borders, and Speech: Introducing Our Proceedings Volume
The essay below serves as introduction to the Stanford Center for Internet and Society's Law, Borders, and Speech Conference Proceedings Volume. The confere…
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The House Has Voted. They Will Allow Warrantless Surveillance.
"“I think it is fair to say that the vote is significant for the future because it shows that Congress intends to ensure continued access to communications…
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Why the Logan Pauls of the world can push the boundaries of privacy and good taste
Social media is having its difficult adolescence. Facebook is approaching its 14th birthday, YouTube is 13, and Twitter is almost 12. In each case, a happy chil…
Philip K. Dick and the Fake Humans
This is not the dystopia we were promised. We are not learning to love Big Brother, who lives, if he lives at all, on a cluster of server farms, cooled by envir…
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Welcome to the neighbourhood. Have you read the terms of service?
""The whole point of a smart city is that everything that can be collected will be collected," says Al Gidari, the director of privacy at Stanfor…
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Tool Without a Handle: Privacy and Moral Hazard
Discussions of privacy tend to focus on the value of privacy. This post agrees that privacy has value in practical terms, as an important moral principle, and…