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Do Not Fool Will Make the Internet Explode
Joint post with Jonathan Mayer. Earlier today Mozilla announced support for Do Not Fool, a proposed mechanism for opting out of April Fools' pranks. We can…
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Danger! Danger!
Lecturer Ryan Calo is quoted by Wired's Justin McLachlan on the purpose of product warning labels and why companies are so willing to attach them to their p…
COMMUNIA Final Report on the Digital Public Domain
This Public Report is the outcome of the work of the COMMUNIA Network on the Digital Public Domain. This Report was undertaken to (i) review the activities of C…
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A Response to Commissioner Rosch on Do Not Track
Late last week FTC Commissioner Rosch penned a column in which he repeated a number of hackneyed criticisms of Do Not Track. Senators McCaskill and Pryor articu…
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What happens online stays online: Comments on "Do Not Track"
Stanford Center The FTC’s Do Not Track (DNT) proposal would essentially provide online users with a convenient universal opt-out of …. well, what exactly? Ad t…
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eCoupons get expensive for uninformed retailers...
Just when I thought that locally, if not nationally, we are flooded with law / technology conferences du jour, I realized the timeliness of yet another confab:…
First Amendment Architecture
SSRN Link. * Publication Type:Academic Writing * Publication Date:03/23/2011 Download PDF…
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You've Been Tagged
An interesting case with big privacy implications looming: A Kentucky Court of Appeals holds you don’t need a person’s permission to tag them in a Facebook phot…
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Against Notice Skepticsm In Privacy (And Elsewhere)
Requiring notice is an extraordinarily popular way to regulate. In online privacy, for instance, giving notice about their practices is among the only affirmat…
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Hearsay Culture shows 132, 133 and 134 -- Michael Madison, Jamais Cascio and Siva Vaidhyanathan -- posted
I am pleased to post three more Hearsay Culture shows for this quarter. The first, Show 132, February 15, is my interview with Associate Dean Michael Madison o…
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New Tool Stops Tracking
Lecturer Ryan Calo spoke with Politico Pro about the effect that a "Do-Not-Track" tool will have on consumer privacy. Michelle Quinn filed the followi…
John Tehranian - Hearsay Culture Show #135 - 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…