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Robots on the Rise
Consumer robotics and Ryan Calo, director of Robotics at CIS, profiled in this SF gate article. Technical manuals and popular fiction helped thrust robots into…
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Robots On The Rise
Ryan Calo, CIS Director of Privacy and Robotics, spoke with James Temple of the San Francisco Chronicle about the evolution of robots and how he expects them to…
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Guest Blogging At Concurring Opinions
I'm guest blogging over at Concurring Opinions this month. My first post explored what the domestic use of drones would mean for privacy law. I also did a t…
Golan v. Holder - Respondents Brief
Supreme Court brief for the Respondents. * Publication Type:Litigation Brief * Publication Date:08/11/2011 Download PDF…
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Verizon Draws Fire For Limiting Subscribers’ Cheap Data Relays
Professor Barbara van Schewick spoke with Todd Shields of Bloomberg Government on a complaint Verizon is facing which accuses the company of violating U.S. rule…
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Like Zombies, Newfangled Cookies, Lawsuits Respawn
This past weekend we saw another volley of rounds fired in the ongoing digital privacy wars. As with previous battles, this one started with the publication of…
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FourthParty: A New Approach to Web Measurement
Last week marked the twentieth anniversary of the public World Wide Web, and there is much to celebrate. The early web consisted of a few text pages linked toge…
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New Hearsay Culture shows with Prof. Archon Fung and Micah Sifry posted
The focus of much of my research and writing is the role of secrecy in intellectual property and its impact on governmental operations and society. Thus, I'…
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New Hearsay Culture show with Prof. Michael Risch posted
I'm pleased to post the first show in the summer quarter, Show #142, June 29, my interview with Prof. Michael Risch of Villanova University School of Law.…
Kevin Kelly - Hearsay Culture Show #146 - KZSU-FM
A talk show on KZSU-FM, Stanford, 90.1 FM, hosted by Center for Internet & Society Resident Fellow David S. Levine. The show includes guests and focuses on…
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There is no such thing as anonymous online tracking
A 1993 New Yorker cartoon famously proclaimed, "On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog." The Web is a very different place today; you now leav…
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An Open Reply to PZ on Copyright
Louis Zukofsky (LZ) is the author of the very long, sometimes difficult, yet always amazing “A”. LZ died in 1978 and his son, Paul Zukofsky (PZ), owns the copy…