Press
•
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…
Recent posts
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…
Blog
•
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…
Press
•
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…
Press
•
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…
Press
•
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…
Blog
•
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…
Now we can cheaply sequence DNA, how do we store all that data?
In 2003, the international consortium of scientists working on the Human Genome Project completed the final first draft for the human genome - a DNA blueprint f…
Press
•
Big Brother on wheels: Why your car company may know more about you than your spouse.
"The law has been unable to keep up with rapid advancements in auto technology, according to Ryan Calo, an associate professor of law at the University of…
Should posting revenge porn be a federal crime?
Revenge porn is the non-consensual sharing of nude photos or videos. Thirty-eight states and the District of Columbia have revenge porn laws, according to the C…
Website operators are in the dark about privacy violations by third-party scripts
by Steven Englehardt, Gunes Acar, and Arvind Narayanan. Recently we revealed that “session replay” scripts on websites record everything you do, like someone l…