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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…
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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…
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'Anonymous' WikiLeaks Backers Targeted In U.S. Probe
Lecturer M. Ryan Calo speaks with Business Week's Michael Riley about the idea of using hacking as a form of civil disobedience: Evidence collected by the…
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Most Facebook, Google Users Worry About Privacy And Security
Lecturer M. Ryan Calo is quoted by The Last Watchdog's Byron Acohido in the following article on privacy concerns over Facebook and Google: Most Americans…
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Anti-transparency
Quoted verbatim from a recent DMCA takedown letter: IMPORTANT NOTICE: None of the information contained in this legal notice is to be transmitted and/or relea…
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Bullish Outlook for the Privacy Profession
Ernst & Young released its annual privacy report this week predicting that “Organizations are expected to invest more money to protect personal information…
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FOIA, Trade Secrets and Restoring Antique Aircraft
Here’s an interesting (to me, at least) trade secret case involving restoration of antique aircraft. Brent Taylor purchased the carcass of an F-45, a 1930s era…
Josh Silver
The future of journalism and the Internet are both in serious jeopardy, and as go these issues go the future of our democracy. Free Press President Josh Silver…
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Seeking Happily Ever After
This award-winning feature-length documentary details why there are more single 30-something women in the U.S. than ever before, and whether women of all ages a…