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…
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Facebook's mood study: How you became the guinea pig
""There is no word in any privacy policy that is not there for a reason. If something is missing, then it's missing for a reason," said Brian…
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The Argentine National Communications Commission Orders to Block The Pirate Bay
Today, the Argentine National Communications Commission (NCC) ordered Internet Service Providers to block access to The Pirate Bay websites in the country withi…
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Riley, Aereo, and the "Arthur C. Clarke Rule"
It turns out that searching through the digital contents of a person’s mobile phone is more intrusive than rifling through an address book, wallet, or purse. Co…
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Court gave NSA broad leeway in surveillance, documents show
"Jennifer Granick, the director of civil liberties at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society, expressed concern about the prospect of capturing e-mai…
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Facebook Furor Is Overblown, Says CalPoly Ethicist
"It’s not clear that Facebook Inc.’s attempts to manipulate user emotion are an ethical lapse, says Patrick Lin, an associate professor in the philosophy d…
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Is America Incapable of Regulating Robots?
"Law professor Ryan Calo believes that robots are soon going to constitute a more abrupt departure from the technologies that preceded them than did the In…
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New NSA 'Transparency Report' Raises More Questions Than It Answers
""How do you get almost 90,000 targets with one order?" wondered Jennifer Granick, director of civil liberties at the Stanford Center for Interne…
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Largest US law firm unamused with parody blog, threatens trademark suit
""The wise thing for them to do is simply accept somebody said something mean about them on the Internet and move on," EFF staff attorney Daniel…