Make copyright law less of a lottery
Cross-posted from The Art Newspaper I was delighted when the Second Circuit Court of Appeals issued its long-awaited decision in favour of Richard Prince in Ap…
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The Criminal N.S.A.
The Criminal N.S.A., an op ed in The New York Times. * Publication Type:Other Writing * Publication Date:06/27/2013…
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Driverless Cars Are Likely to Get Boost From DOT Ruling
""Connected cars aren't the same thing as automated cars, but at some point they converge," says Bryant Walker Smith, a lecturer at Stanford…
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Tool Without A Handle: The Dark Side
“Tool Without a Handle: The Dark Side” “Chaos, control. Chaos, control. You like, you like?” - John Guare, Six Degrees of Separation Every tool can be m…
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Border Militarization Unacceptable Compromise
The Corker-Hoeven Amendment moved one step closer to being added to Senate Bill 744 yesterday with a 67-27 vote on a motion to invoke cloture. The Corker-Hoeve…
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Surveillance Myth #1: I Have Nothing to Hide
In the public debate over secret NSA spying, we keep hearing three refrains to justify, or at least accommodate people, to the U.S. government's surveillanc…
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Mozilla plotting block- and allow-lists for tracking Firefox cookies
""Today Mozilla is committing to work with Aleecia [McDonald of CIS] and the CCH Advisory Board, whose members include Opera Software, to develop the…
Obscurity by Design
Design-based solutions to confront technological privacy threats are becoming popular with regulators. However, these promising solutions have left the full pot…
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Third-Party Blocking Moves Forward For Mozilla’s Firefox Browser
"After a period of review, Firefox decided to go ahead with plans to block third-party cookies for its new version of the web browser. The non-profit organ…
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US privacy violations among legal concerns of FBI drone usage
FBI Director Robert Mueller’s admission of domestic drone use by the agency has raised red flags among privacy advocates and anti-drone activists and has surpri…
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Cookie Clearinghouse
The Cookie Clearinghouse provides information for users to make choices about online privacy. The Cookie Clearinghouse publishes free-to-use information for web…
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Stanford joins Mozilla in war on cookies
""Internet users are starting to understand that their online activities are closely monitored, often by companies they have never heard of before,&qu…