Did PCLOB Answer My Eight Questions About Section 702?
TL;DR: A little bit, but not enough. Yesterday, the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB) issued a massive report about the legally and technolog…
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Did PCLOB Answer My Eight Questions About Section 702?
TL;DR: A little bit, but not enough. Yesterday, the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB) issued a massive report about the legally and technolog…
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The Bright Side of Facebook’s Social Experiments on Users
"“There’s enough pressure and understanding of this issue that these firms are going to have to come up with a way to make the public and regulators comfor…
The Facebook Experiment: Gambling? In This Casino?
Cross-posted from Recode. By Jules Polonetsky and Omer Tene Critics have spent the last few days castigating Facebook for a large-scale experiment conducted b…
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NSA reformers dismayed after privacy board vindicates surveillance dragnet
""But for the longer term goal of reining in warrantless, massive collection of communications and for getting countries to protect their communicatio…
Carl Oechsner - Hearsay Culture Show #215 - KZSU-FM
A talk show on KZSU-FM, Stanford, 90.1 FM, hosted by CIS Affiliate Scholar David S. Levine. The show includes guests and focuses on the intersection of technolo…
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Facebook Playing Your Feelings Is Legal But 'Creepy,' Say Law Experts
"Ryan Calo, a privacy expert and law professor at the University of Washington, told Mashable that the study may be "creepy" but not necessarily…
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Only five countries escape NSA surveillance: Report
"Stanford Center for Internet and Society director of civil liberties, Jennifer Granick, told ZDNet that American data could be swept up by the NSA, and ma…
How to Stop Facebook From Making Us Pawns in Its Corporate Agenda
Cross-posted from Wired. You didn’t know it, but Facebook used some of you to manipulate your friends. Even though you can’t anticipate how a company will int…
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The Supreme Court Finds Aereo a Direct Infringer, Justice Brandeis (and Scalia) Dissent
Recently, the United Sates Supreme Court decided American Broadcasting Cos. v Aereo, holding that “Aereo publicly performs copyrighted works, in violation of th…
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NSA Revelations At-A-Glance
For those following or researching the NSA disclosures by Edward Snowden (or privacy issues in general) this interactive chart will be a useful tool both for re…
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Homeland Security Facility Is Testing a Fun New Biometric Program for Airports
"Ryan Calo, assistant professor of law at the University of Washington and a privacy expert, told me that he’s concerned with how facial recognition techno…