Should You Be Allowed to Prevent Drones From Flying Over Your Property?
NO: It Is the Way to Kill Innovation By Ryan Calo The year is 1910. Orville and Wilbur Wright are testing their plane and happen to fly hundreds of feet over…
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Online tracking: A 1-million-site measurement and analysis
Online tracking: A 1-million-site measurement and analysis is the largest and most detailed measurement of online tracking to date. We measure stateful (cookie-…
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Taplin's False Choice Between Music and Technology
Jonathan Taplin’s op-ed (Do You Love Music? Silicon Valley Doesn’t) in the May 20 edition of The New York Times perpetuates a powerful dichotomy that has come t…
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Huge new study shows that Google is watching you everywhere you go
"All of this might sound terrifying, but as assistant professor Arvind Narayanan and graduate student Steven Englehardt explain, the preeminence of Google,…
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Google patent: Glue would stick pedestrian to self-driving car after collision
"Stanford School of Law professor and autonomous car expert Bryant Walker Smith praised Google -- once he stopped laughing about the patent. "The ide…
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Google's sticky hood patent for self-driving car is not as crazy as you think
"Bryant Walker Smith says the usefulness of this technology is all situational. For example, it's probably not too beneficial if the sticky car hood le…
The Chinese government fakes nearly 450 million social media comments a year. This is why.
Internet researchers have long known that the Chinese government manipulates content on the Internet. Not only does it censor heavily, but it also employs hundr…
There Is No Such Thing as “Public” Data
Are you an OkCupid user? Would you consider the data on your profile public—fair game for anyone to download and share with the rest of the world? That’s the a…
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Paying without passwords and PINs
Back in 2000, ING Direct Canada – the digital bank that became Tangerine Bank – piloted a “biometric” mouse that would scan users’ fingerprints to help bypass t…
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Your call and text records are far more revealing than you think
""The study has important implications for surveillance law and policy," says Arvind Narayanan, a computer scientist and data privacy expert at P…
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Meet ‘Ross,’ the newly hired legal robot
"A future where ROSS, or similar robot lawyers, is used across the country might not be too far away, according to Ryan Calo, a law professor and writer wh…
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“Tool Without a Handle: “Tools for Terror, Tools for Peace,” part II
This blog continues the analysis of how to respond to terrorist activity (including recruitment and planning of attacks) using network information technology, i…