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Chain-Link Confidentiality
I have just uploaded a new essay about online privacy to SSRN that will appear in Volume 46 of the Georgia Law Review. The essay, titled "Chain-Link Confid…
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Fair Use during submittal of prior art during patent prosecution: John Wiley & Sons v. McDonnell Boehnen
Dennis Crouch today reports on John Wiley & Sons v. McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff. The crux of this case concerns the disclosing and submitting…
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Couple Win $14 Million after Un-Masking Anonymous Internet Trolls who Labeled them Sexual Deviants
'If the award is upheld, then people will think twice about what they say,' said Ryan Calo (CIS Director of Privacy and Robotics).'Defamation is one…
Jennifer Holt - Hearsay Culture - Show #160 - 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…
Privacy in the Age of Augmented Reality - Alessandro Acquisti - Audio
In his talk, Alessandro Acquisti links two streams of research he is conducting at Carnegie Mellon University: the "behavioral economics of privacy,"…
SOPA, PIPA and Internet Freedom - Where Do We Go From Here? Audio
An evening conversation with CIS Executive Director of the Fair Use Project Anthony Falzone and Congressman Darrell Issa where they will discuss topics about SO…
Privacy in the Age of Augmented Reality - Alessandro Acquisti - Video
In his talk, Alessandro Acquisti links two streams of research he is conducting at Carnegie Mellon University: the "behavioral economics of privacy,"…
SOPA, PIPA and Internet Freedom - Where Do We Go From Here? Video
An evening conversation with CIS Executive Director of the Fair Use Project Anthony Falzone and Congressman Darrell Issa where they will discuss topics about SO…
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Drones to Soar Over US and Canada Sooner than Thought?
Ryan Calo, a researcher at Stanford Law School, tells the Wall Street Journal that he expects more entities to seek approval as drones are retired from use over…
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ACLU: Wireless Carriers Enable Warrantless Cellphone Tracking
While law enforcement organizations across the country may be tracking people using their cellphones, police are finding willing partners in wireless phone comp…
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To Read All Those Web Privacy Policies, Just Take A Month Off Work
Internet surfers have long worried that they have insufficient control over their online privacy — despite the privacy policies many people agree to when they v…
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Brave New World of Robot Litigants, Soldiers, Escorts
The interrogator-bots — displayed on screens in kiosks at border checkpoints — will ask questions while flashing pictures of weapons or drugs, then decide wheth…