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Facebook's New Privacy Tools As User Notice
Facebook previewed a new notice strategy today. Part of the proposed change is a simpler privacy policy. Meh. I, like many, am a privacy policy skeptic. I'm…
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Do Not Track FTC Comment: What It Means, How to Enforce It, and More
Last Friday we submitted a comment to the FTC articulating our vision for Do Not Track. We expanded on a number of views already expressed on this blog: Do Not…
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Guessing Why the President was a Dinner Guest in Woodside
Capturing the Moment Last week, the wizards of Silicon Valley met for dinner at John Doerr’s house in Woodside, two days after the Administration proposed its 2…
Jamais Cascio - Hearsay Culture Show #133 - 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…
Michael Madison - Hearsay Culture Show #132 - 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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Apply To CIS & CARS Joint Fellowship!
From vehicles that detect pedestrians in the road to cars capable of navigating urban terrain without human intervention, autonomous driving is currently one of…
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Privacy and quantum physics; privacy as religion
I’ve just returned from a week at the Schloss Dagstuhl Leibniz Center for Informatics, where I attended a “Perspectives Workshop” on “Online Privacy: Towards In…
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'Do Not Track' Internet Privacy Bill Introduced In House
Lecturer Ryan Calo spoke with David Sarno of the Los Angeles Times about the recent bill sponsored by Rep Jackie Speier (D-Calif.) to force online marketers to…
Ramesh Srinivasan - Hearsay Culture Show #131 - 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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Hearsay Culture shows #129 and 130 -- Ryan Calo and Sarah Rose -- posted
I am pleased to post two more shows for the Winter Quarter. The first, Show #129, January 11, 2011, is my interview with CIS' own Ryan Calo, Director, Cons…
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5Across: Online Privacy And The 'Do Not Track' Debate
Lecturer Ryan Calo participated in a round table discussion featured by PBS's MediaShift .The show's host, Mark Glaser, filed the following story on the…
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Lovely-Faces and the Benefit of Scraping Restrictions
Website scraping, which is the bulk extraction of website information by software, is becoming an increasingly visible activity. The Lovely-Faces controversy sh…