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Penal code: The coming world of trial by algorithm
""An officer can devote more resources to investigating the theft of a vital piece of medical equipment than the theft of an iPod," says Woodrow…
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Recurring Myths About the Legal Obligations of Online Platforms
Cross-posted from Ammori.org In recent months, some copyright holders, pharmaceutical companies, and state attorneys general have made allegations against Inte…
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Google asks federal judge to dismiss Gmail scanning lawsuit
""I don't see this lawsuit having a lot of traction," University of Washington law professor Ryan Calo said." * Date Published:09/05/2…
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Acxiom Lets Consumers See Data It Collects
"While that kind of pervasive surveillance may be useful for companies, it could also make consumers more vulnerable to pitches for products that are not n…
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How online advertisers could use your data against you
"Ryan Calo, professor at the University of Washington, has written on the future of digital marketing in the Stanford Law Review Online and joins Marketpla…
Cookie Clearinghouse Project
Overview about the Cookie Clearinghouse Project with Stanford CIS Director of Privacy Aleecia McDonald. http://cch.law.stanford.edu…
Privacy and Big Data: Making Ends Meet
Privacy and Big Data by Jules Polonetsky & Omer Tene How should privacy risks be weighed against big data rewards? The recent controversy over leaked docum…
Big Data in Small Hands
Big Data in Small Hands by Woodrow Hartzog & Evan Selinger “Big data” can be defined as a problem-solving philosophy that leverages massive datasets and al…
Privacy Substitutes
Privacy Substitutes by Jonathan Mayer & Arvind Narayanan Debates over information privacy are often framed as an inescapable conflict between competing int…
Consumer Subject Review Boards
Consumer Subject Review Boards by Ryan Calo There are only a handful of reasons to study someone very closely. If you spot a tennis rival filming your practice…
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Meet our 2013 Legal Rebels
"Design thinking has finally reached the text-heavy, no-nonsense bastion of law, and recent Stanford Law grad Margaret Hagan is drawing a lot of attention…
Tiny Salespeople: Mediated Transactions and the Internet of Things
Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito wanted to dramatize how hard GPS surveillance would be for our nation’s founders to envision. It would take a “very tiny cons…