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InBloom Wilts Amid Privacy Backlash
Last week, Intel’s director of security policy and global privacy officer, David Hoffman, wrote a Harvard Business Review piece announcing that “Privacy is a Bu…
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Email Encryption: Pretty Good Privacy Even when Someone's Listening
This event was hosted by the Stanford Center for Internet and Society. https://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/events/cis-tech-workshop-tom-lowenthal-ema... Pretty-good…
Eternal vigilance is a solvable technology problem: A proposal for streamlined privacy alerts
Consider three recent news articles about online privacy: Google+ added a new feature that shows view counts on everything you post, including your photos. It’…
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The decades-old idea that could break the net neutrality logjam
"While Wu's plan gives the FCC the wiggle room to regulate downstream traffic while treating upstream traffic differently, other net neutrality advocat…
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Q&A with Privacy Expert Omer Tene
"Q. What is the best part of your job? A. All parts of my job are “the best.” Privacy is a fascinating field that’s evolving with astounding speed and mak…
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Debunking the First Amendment Myths Surrounding Revenge Porn Laws
"Another way to understand the constitutionality of revenge porn statutes is through the lens of confidentiality law. Woodrow Hartzog persuasively contends…
Debunking the First Amendment Myths Surrounding Revenge Porn Laws
Disclosing someone’s nude image in violation of trust and confidence (often known as nonconsensual pornography or revenge porn) is a destructive invasion of pri…
Letter to the Marlene H. Dortch, Secretary, Federal Communications Commission, Notice of Ex Parte Meeting, GN Docket, Nos. 09-191 & 14-28 (2014)
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Aereo's Legal Battles Rest on the Meaning of 'Public Performance'
"“The problem the court faces is that if they want to say that Aereo is violating the law, they have to explain how it’s different from Cablevision or, mor…
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Law by design
"“The missions of law and design are not that separate and [are] quite powerful if you bring them together,” says Hagan, co-director of the Program for Leg…
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Fourth Circuit Upholds Contempt Against Lavabit, Doesn’t Decide Gov’t Access to Encryption Keys
Today the Fourth Circuit refrained from deciding the first legal challenge to government seizure of the master encryption keys that secure our communications wi…
Protecting Sexual Privacy with Law
Technological change is at the heart of much information privacy law. Recall privacy law’s beginning. In 1890, Samuel Warren and Louis Brandeis, then law partne…