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Yes - We are "adequate"!
High achievers such as Stanford law students and global privacy leaders don't usually revel in being called "adequate". But the European Commissio…
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Josh Silver - CIS Speaker Series 2011
The future of journalism and the Internet are both in serious jeopardy, and as go these issues go the future of our democracy. Join Free Press President Josh Si…
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Gio Wiederhold Follows the Intellectual Property Money
Emeritus Stanford Computer Science Professor Gio Wiederhold provides in the January 2011 issue of Communications of the ACM (1) (the monthly journal of the prof…
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What should the U.S. learn from Egypt's use of the "Internet Kill Switch?"
The outbreak of civil unrest in Egypt this week has unfolded with rapid momentum. As in Tunisia, access to video, Twitter and other feeds at first appeared to…
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Who Said France Does Not Have Fair Use?
Valérie Laure Benabou, a law professor at the University of Versailles and an esteemed expert on French and international copyright law, kindly agreed to share…
Data Privacy
CIS Speaker Series - Data Privacy - 1/24/2011 Does the Fourth Amendment protect the privacy of your webmail? Does the government have to get a search warrant b…
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Privacy & Innovation: A Data Privacy Day Reflection
The intuition that privacy and innovation are somehow opposed is surprisingly common. It is true that overzealous or reactionary appeals to privacy can cut of…
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Minor Updates to the Do Not Track Header
We're pleased to announce we're beginning work on an IETF Internet-Draft for the Do Not Track header. We look forward to incorporating broad feedback.…
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Hello, Big Brother: Digital Sensors Are Watching Us
Lecturer Ryan Calo is quoted by USA Today in the following story on the prevalence of digital sensors and concerns over possible increases in their usage: Odds…
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Auctioned Patents Emerge in Litigation in 2010
In reviewing the statistical tea leaves of IP litigation trends for 2010, one aspect that now stands out is the number of cases involving auctioned patents. Th…
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Access-Right over Open Access
The term open access is often used roughly to describe free circulation of academic and scholarly contributions over electronic media. The basic idea is to enha…
Susan Freiwald and Kevin Bankston - CIS Speaker Series 2011
Kevin Bankston, senior staff attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, will discuss recent cases he has litigated involving the Electronic Communications…