How Technology Broke Privacy
One of the greatest challenges of living in the future is that it mostly looks just like the present. We have self-driving cars, commercial spaceflight, powerfu…
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Search Me: Managing Unwanted Search Results On Your Name
This week I had a request for privacy information that went something like this: I am starting a new project and expect people to search my name online. There…
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This Guy Hunts Down The Men Behind Revenge Porn Websites
"Citron and Franks both admire his work, but say it can’t stem the larger tide. “It is a drop in the bucket,” says Citron. “There are still over 40 sites d…
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Researcher proposes alert tool for managing online privacy risks
"What we need is a way of getting all the relevant privacy information in a timely, applicable and focused fashion. Arvind Narayanan, Assistant Professor o…
Mary Wong - Hearsay Culture Show #210 - 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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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…
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…