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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…
Armed Military Robots: Editorial
Altmann, J., P. Asaro, N. Sharkey, and R. Sparrow (2013). “ Armed Military Robots: Editorial,” Ethics and Information Technology 15 (2), June 2013, pp. 73-76.…
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Center for Internet and Society Launches “Cookie Clearinghouse” to Enable User Choice for Online Tracking
The Center for Internet and Society (CIS) at Stanford Law School launched a new online privacy initiative today called the “Cookie Clearinghouse,” which will em…
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Mozilla and Stanford Pitch New Cookie Blocking Approach
"Mozilla and Stanford will support opt-out cookies set by the Digital Advertising Alliance, which operates the ad industry’s Ad Choices privacy program, an…