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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…
Stanford Throws a Robot Block Party
From robots that help perform delicate medical procedures to NASA's rovers, the latest high-tech machines were in the spotlight last week at Stanford's…
Stanford Expert Considers Robots and the Law
M. Ryan Calo, a residential fellow at the Stanford Law School's Center for Internet and Society, is looking at the possible legal ramifications robots and r…
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Do Not Track Is No Threat to Ad-Supported Businesses
"If you remove tracking, you remove advertisers." "Stop [data] sharing and you put a stop to the Internet as we know it." "Thousands of…
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Apply Now: Summer Internship
The Center for Internet and Society (CIS) at Stanford Law School is looking for volunteer Summer Interns to work on public interest issues involving technology.…
Sarah Rose - Hearsay Culture Show #130 - 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 Winter Quarter 2011 Schedule posted
Here's the schedule! For the first time since it's founding in May 2006, the show is now airing live at a new time -- Tuesdays, 11am-12pm PT. I'm…
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Israeli Court Enforces for the First Time a Creative Commons License
A court in Israel found that taking CC-licensed pictures from Flickr and publishing them in a book violated the copyright in each and every picture separately.…
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Data Protection Commissioner to go after Google Analytics
The tension between Google and data protection agencies intensified over the last two days. The Data Protection Commissioner in Hamburg is apparently unhappy wi…