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States Take the Wheel on Driverless Cars
"At the local level, driverless cars will change the way cities think about zoning, parking and idling rules, and could eventually allow cities to develop…
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Feds tell Web firms to turn over user account passwords
""This is one of those unanswered legal questions: Is there any circumstance under which they could get password information?" said Jennifer Gran…
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N.J. wins $1 million settlement from online ad company for violating web user privacy
"While the most recent allegations did not include PulsePoint stealing any personal information from users, the damage was real, said Aleecia McDonald, dir…
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Amash Amendment to defund NSA surveillance fails narrowly
In a closely watched vote that ended within the past hour, the US House of Representatives narrowly rejected Rep. Justin Amash's (R-MI) amendment (205-217)…
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Can You Hide Anything from the NSA?
""It's sort of like a puzzle that those of us who are in [the digital security] field have been trying to put together for years," said Jenni…
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Secret FISA Court Must Go
Chris Sprigman and I have a new piece up at The Daily Beast about NSA illegal mass surveillance. This time we're looking at the role of the secret FISA Cour…
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In-Store Tracking Companies Try to Self-Regulate Privacy
"“Self-regulation in its purest form is a recipe for disaster. There are simply too many incentives to violate privacy interests and too little transparenc…
The Secret FISA Court Must Go
The Secret FISA Court Must Go, an op ed on The Daily Beast. * Publication Type:Other Writing * Publication Date:07/24/2013…
Prof. Deven Desai - Hearsay Culture - Show #190 - 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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Tune Your Engine - driverless car technology
"Bryant Walker Smith, a fellow at Stanford Centers for Automotive Research and Internet and Society, looks at developments in driverless car technology.&qu…
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How Protecting Your Privacy Could Make You the Bad Guy
"A number of researchers (including me) recently joined an amicus brief (filed by Stanford’s Center for Internet and Society in the “Weev” case), arguing h…
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Congress and the Justice Dept's Dangerous Attempts to Define “Journalist” Threaten to Exclude Bloggers
Cross-posted from EFF. Lawmakers in Washington are again weighing in on who should and should not qualify as a journalist—and the outcome looks pretty grim for…