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Twitter’s Response to WikiLeaks Subpoena
Everyone's naturally tweeting about it: Twitter successfully fought to make public government subpoenas for information about Wikileaks supporters. When…
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Uncertain Implications of Ninth Circuit Ruling on Copyright Licensing
If you have ever actually read through a software end user license agreement, you know that they are often full of restrictions on how you can use the software.…
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Apps For Robots: iRobot's AVA At CES
Over Christmas, I received a series 530 Roomba, the robotic vacuum cleaner from iRobot. It cleans the floor really well. But that is all it does. This year a…
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Privacy Advocates Annoyed By Media Distorting Their Privacy Advocacy
M. Ryan Calo, director of the Consumer Privacy Project, is mentioned in the following article clarifying some of his earlier comments on the effects of Wikileak…
Ryan Calo - Hearsay Culture Show #129 - 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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The Problems Of Web Surveillance: Some Context For My Quote In The New York Times
UPDATE: The New York Times published most of the rest of my comments on Bits Blog. Thanks! I was quoted in a cover story in today's New York Times as sayi…
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Technology and Divorce Mediation
I met with my good friend John Ford last week for lunch, and he introduced me to his business partner David Stein. The two of them have set up a new dispute re…
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Back to the CIS Blog
After a long hiatus, I now plan to return to regularly blogging on this site. To see what I have been up to the past nine months, visit the Peter Jennings Proje…
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The Aftermath of Wikileaks
The U.K.’s freedom of information commissioner, Christopher Graham, recently told The Guardian that the WikiLeaks disclosures irreversibly altered the relations…
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New Law Confronts Cyberbullying
Lecturer Ryan Calo is mentioned in the following article about a new California Senate bill addressing cyberbullying via social networking websites. The Stanfor…
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Sony v. Tenenbaum: Amicus Brief Urges Due Process Review of Copyright Damages Awards
On Monday we filed an amicus brief on behalf of the Electronic Frontier Foundation in the Sony v. Tenenbaum case, pending in in the First Circuit Court of Appea…
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Wikileaks As Security Breach
Affiliate scholar Marvin Ammori offers eight good reasons why the United States should not prosecute Wikileaks founder Julian Assange. I mostly agree with Ammo…