NSA Leaks Bring the Whole Idea of “Net Neutrality” Into Question
Cross-posted from Slate. Last week, in the midst of ongoing NSA secret spying revelations ranging from billion-dollar efforts to make the private accessible to…
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NSA Leaks Bring the Whole Idea of “Net Neutrality” Into Question
Cross-posted from Slate. Last week, in the midst of ongoing NSA secret spying revelations ranging from billion-dollar efforts to make the private accessible to…
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We Robot: Third Annual Robotics & Law Conference
I'm delighted to announce We Robot 2014, back at the University of Miami School of Law for its third year after a wonderful event at Stanford Law School las…
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Internet Tracking Expanding, Spurs Push For More Privacy
"“If you visit one website, you have a whole bunch of other companies tracking you, as well, and then they’re tracking you on other websites, too, so they…
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Inside Google's Quest To Popularize Self-Driving Cars
"Bryant Walker Smith, a civil engineer, lawyer, and Stanford Law School fellow, is the leading expert on how existing law would apply to self-driving cars.…
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Google May Stop Using 'Cookies' to Track Web Users
"Jonathan Mayer, a Stanford University professor who studies online advertising and privacy, said it was unclear that so-called anonymous codes would actua…
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Digital Advertising Alliance Exits Do Not Track Group
"Privacy advocate Jonathan Mayer, a Stanford University privacy expert who works with Mozilla, quit the group last month. "Given the lack of a viable…
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Big Data and Privacy: Thank You
Thank you to everyone who attended and participated in the Big Data and Privacy we co-hosted last week. A collection of proceedings form the conference will be…
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Do-Not-Track on the Ropes as Ad Industry Ditches W3C
"Ms. McDonald argued that there is still hope for progress and her experience has been less hampered by obstacles perceived by Mr. Mejia and other particip…
Data Collection & Consent: Next Steps for Digital Advertising
As part of the Global Data Protection policy workshop at this year’s Privacy Identity Innovation conference, we hosted a session titled “Data Collection and Con…
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Can policy keep up with technology? New UW lab gets $1.7M from Microsoft
"The three founding directors are Ryan Calo, Assistant Professor at the UW’s School of Law; UW Associate Professor Tadayoshi Kohno, from Computer Science a…
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Can Your iPhone Thumbprint Be Used Against You?
"It isn’t hard to imagine police also forcing a suspect to put his thumb on his iPhone to take a look inside, said Brian Hayden Pascal, a research fellow a…