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Phone call metadata easily yields details of private life
""What surprised us was how much sensitive information was crammed into the metadata," said Jonathan Mayer, a doctoral candidate and a cybersecur…
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Snowden effect: White House, Hill offering reforms
"“We never had any real information about how these programs were used until now,” ACLU legislative counsel Michelle Richardson said. “Reform efforts were…
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As Surveillance Costs Fall, Could the NSA Gain Ability to Record & Replay Every Call, Everywhere?
"MICHELLE RICHARDSON: Well, we’re concerned this is another example of U.S. government overreach and that instead of really targeting its very powerful sur…
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Putting the Public’s Interest Back Into the “Public Interest”
What’s your definition of the “public interest” when it comes to law and lawmaking? Is it a unitary concept, where we consider the good of society as a whole?…
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Obama Press Attacks Degrade the First Amendment In The Name of Security
Cross-posted from Forbes.com and co-authored by CIS Director of Civil Liberties Jennifer Granick. This post is co-authored with Morgan Weiland, a J.D.-Ph.D. ca…
Obama Press Attacks Degrade the First Amendment In The Name of Security
Cross-posted from Forbes. This post is co-authored with Morgan Weiland, a J.D.-Ph.D. candidate at Stanford Law School and the Stanford Communication Department…
Marketplace Tech for Thursday, March 20, 2014
Listen here. CIS Director of Copyright and Fair Use, Julie Ahrens, starts at 2:08. How the Amazon Prime price hike may actually increase usage by Amazon custo…
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Google, Viacom settle suit over YouTube
""They (Viacom) see it as a useful way to monetize their content," said Julie Ahrens, director of copyright and fair use at Stanford University&#…
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Snowden BEAMs into TED: How robotic telepresence disrupts borders
"Robotics and law expert Ryan Calo seems to think that laws around telepresence are inevitable: “Today’s telepresence permits people to communicate more fu…
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Film screening takes on cyber bullying
"The 23-minute, 2012 documentary was produced by Alberta’s BearPaw Media Productions. It features interviews with Canadian bullying expert Dr. Shaheen Shar…
Harmen Groenhart - Hearsay Culture Show #207 - 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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Teachers are low on the list of people students turn to when cyberbullied
"“If you’re speaking to kids as audiences, it’s not going to be digested. They have anti-bullying program burnout,” said Shaheen Shariff, a professor of ed…