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The Industry of Bad Feelings
Some weeks ago I wrote a post, The Industry of Good Feelings, about Silicon Valley's unique esprit de corps – how it has long been the kind of place where i…
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How Much Data Can Facebook Collect Before the FTC Gets Involved?
Facebook has defended its new in-store tracking partnership with Datalogix, which gives Facebook access to our offline shopping habits via our rewards cards, by…
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Facebook Stops Asking Users To 'Snitch' On Friends With Fake Names
“Facebook’s insistence that it will ‘not be using this data for enforcement actions’ puts the company and users in a difficult position,” says law professor Woo…
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Digital data mining spurs efforts to curb use without permission
Aleecia McDonald, a privacy researcher and Fellow at the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School, says her work on users' understanding of di…
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Big Data for All: Privacy and User Control in the Age of Analytics
Much has been written over the past couple of years about “big data” (See, for example, here and here and here). In a new article, Big Data for All: Privacy and…
Free Speech on YouTube: Google's Lose-Lose Situation
CIS Affiliate Scholar Marvin Ammori and New America Senior Fellow Rebecca MacKinnon discuss Google's decision to restrict access to an anti-Islamic video th…
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On Reverse Engineering Privacy Law
Michael Birnhack, a professor at Tel Aviv University Faculty of Law, is one of the leading thinkers about privacy and data protection today (for some of his pre…
Prof. Madhavi Sunder - Hearsay Culture - Show #172 - 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 technol…
Dr. Deborah Peel - Hearsay Culture - Show #171 - 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 technol…
Prof. Woodrow Hartzog and Fred Stutzman - Hearsay Culture - Show #170 - 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 technol…
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Paperback and Kindle Versions of Internet Architecture and Innovation Now Available
The paperback and Kindle versions of Internet Architecture and Innovation have been released. More information about the book can be found at netarchitecture.or…
The Knockoff Economy: How Imitation Sparks Innovation
Book Website From the shopping mall to the corner bistro, knockoffs are everywhere in today's marketplace. Conventional wisdom holds that copying kills cre…