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Why Opt Out Of Tracking? Here's A Reason
The Stanford Center for Internet and Society, where I am an affiliate scholar, is a thought leader on consumer privacy and a source for potential solutions. Th…
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Prof. Michael Rich - Hearsay Culture - Show #191 - 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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6 Questions States Need to Ask About Self-Driving Cars
""Some states are going to act much faster than the feds can or will," says Bryant Walker Smith, a fellow at Stanford Law School's Center for…
Digital Market Manipulation
Jon Hanson and Douglas Kysar coined the term “market manipulation” in 1999 to describe how companies exploit the cognitive limitations of consumers. Everything…
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Robots: their rights and legal status
"Ryan Calo: I think that there are three key differences between robotics and the technologies that preceded robotics. Antony Funnell: Professor Ryan Calo…
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Initial Thoughts on POTUS surveillance reforms
During a rare mid-afternoon late summer Friday press conference, President Obama outlined several actions that he believes will help restore American citizens&#…
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Google Glass sees all -- and that raises privacy concerns
"That in-your-face quality of Glass could wake up more people to their ever shrinking privacy in the rapidly advancing digital age, University of Washingto…
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The NSA/DEA Team-Up vs. Enemies Foreign and Domestic
The latest chapter in the ongoing tale of NSA overreach may be the most troubling one yet. Reuters has revealed that NSA has been sharing information with a sec…
Urban Guerrilla & Piracy Surveillance: Accidental Casualties in Fighting Piracy in P2P Networks in Europe
Copyright law is facing its biggest challenge yet as it copes with technological development and an increasingly global information market. The advent of peer-t…
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Give Me Complicity or Give Me Death: Lavabit Chooses Death
Today, Lavabit, an email service provider that promised its customers better privacy and security than other publicly available services, shut its doors. Readi…
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Open season on drones? Town split over licenses to hunt unmanned aircraft
"Ryan Calo, assistant professor of law at the University of Washington, calls the town's reaction a "cowboy instinct." Coming from a town tha…
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If Bruce Schneier ran the NSA, he’d ask a basic question: “Does it do any good?”
"Jennifer Granick was the first to admit that it’s difficult to know what reforms are necessary because as Schneier pointed out, it’s impossible to know wh…