Where all those digital cookies came from
Listen to the full interview at Marketplace Tech. "It was about consumer convenience," says Ryan Calo, a professor of internet and privacy law at the…
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Visions of the Sharing Economy Present and Future from NYU Conference
"Leading a later panel, Andrew McLaughlin, the CEO of Digg, sought to "de-cartoonize" the conflicts between peer-to-peer networks and regulators,…
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April 2014 in Retrospect: Intermediary Liability News and More from the Internet and Jurisdiction Project
April 2014 Retrospect is available here: http://www.internetjurisdiction.net/observatory/retrospect/2014-april Retrospect is the monthly newsletter of the Int…
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Update on Privacy From Canada
In unveiling its Speech From the Throne (SFT) last October, the Government spelled out its priorities and governing agenda leading up to the next federal electi…
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Interviews: Jennifer Granick Answers Your Questions
Jennifer Granick, CIS Director of Civil Liberties, was recently interviwed by Slashdot users about surveillance, data protection, copyright, and number of other…
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Is the vulnerability disclosure 'debate' resurfacing?
A recent Guardian article reminds us that computer crime laws may be applied toward cybersecurity researchers disclosing vulnerabilities in modern technology pr…
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Should We Centralize the Right to be Forgotten Clearing House?
Being in Silicon Valley during the time when the honourable Court of Justice of the European Union "cracks" its epic right to be forgotten ruling, is…
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Are some companies 'yes men' when foreign governments ask for user data?
Once you start looking at which countries are requesting data from US companies, the next obvious (and critical) question is: how do companies respond to those…
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Europe demands driverless cars be driveable
""In contrast the European Union has looked at automation much more broadly in the context of economic development and mobility," Smith notes, &q…
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Grad student has already made a mark in consumer privacy, U.S. spying
Read the full profile of Jonathan Mayer at the Los Angeles Times. "Jonathan Mayer is not a typical Stanford University graduate student. Already, at age 2…
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Self-Driving Cars Will Turn Surveillance Woes Into a Mainstream Worry
"It’s quite clear: for most people, the link between government surveillance and freedom is more plainly understood by cars, rather than personal computers…
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CrossFit's Sour Sense of Humor
"But CrossFit could face an uphill battle proving that the videos violate their copyright, said Julie Ahrens, director of Copyright and Fair Use at Stanfor…