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Tracking the trackers: Investigators reveal pervasive profiling of Web users
""What's unfortunate is the huge gap of information — understanding what's happening on the Web and what users know about tracking," said…
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Navigating the roadblocks
"“For the trucking industry, the risk is magnified: we’re no longer talking about two-tonne vehicles of steel and glass, but up to 40-tonne vehicles that m…
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Privacy Pros Want More Say In Marketing and Ad Decisions
""Marketing departments have become much more savvy, and sometimes aggressive about their data-use strategy," said Omer Tene, the IAPP's VP-…
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School shooting shows need to reach troubled kids via social media
""In many jurisdictions you could literally walk past a drowning person, do nothing and not be liable," said Ryan Calo, a UW professor specializi…
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Verizon, AT&T tracking their users with ‘supercookies’
"One security researcher, Stanford’s Jonathan Mayer, said, “I don’t know any computer scientist who takes that ‘It’s anonymous’ argument seriously. It’s be…
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Hybrid Net Neutrality Makes No One Happy
""It's either a disaster for the open Internet, or it will be struck down in court," Stanford Professor Barbara van Schewick said. She warned…
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Marysville deaths show need to reach troubled teens online
"“In many jurisdictions you could literally walk past a drowning person, do nothing and not be liable,” said Ryan Calo, a UW professor specializing in Inte…
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FCC 'Close' to Hybrid Net Neutrality Rules
"But according to Stanford Professor Barbara van Schewick, a leading net neutrality advocate, the Mozilla plan won't hold up in court. Using different…
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FCC Eying Net Neutrality Plan That Will Make No One Happy
"Stanford Law School professor Barbara van Schewick told Wheeler’s aides earlier this month that if the FCC tries a hybrid approach, “the FCC would lose in…
Does the FCC really not get it about the Internet?
The key to an open Internet is nondiscrimination and in particular, a prohibition on discrimination or prioritization based on the identity of the user (sender/…
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Hacking Trademarks for Free Culture
Open source software projects and other collaborative communities are built on the principle that information should be shared and remixed. Some of these projec…
Comments on Mozilla's Proposal
By Barbara van Schewick and Alec Schierenbeck. The FCC is currently considering adopting network neutrality rules based on a hybrid proposal that is based on t…