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The Criminalization of E-Personation
I was interviewed yesterday for the local Fox affiliate on Cal. SB 1411, which criminalizes online impersonations (or “e-personation”) under certain circumstanc…
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ODR and Consumers 2010
Sporadic updates on this blog as of late, but that's due to some exciting developments in other places... Check out the cooperative blog on the UNCITRAL OD…
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Face for Radio
Check out my latest eBay adventure... filling in for Griff as the host of eBay Radio: http://www.ebroadcaststudios.com/jun8,2010.html Pretty rough, but it'…
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"Legally Defensible" Security and the (Surprisingly Lacking) Right to Privacy
I participated last week in a Techdirt webinar titled, “What IT needs to know about Law.” (You can read Dennis Yang’s summary here, or follow his link to wat…
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Privacy Worries Inspire A New Wave Of Startups
Ryan Calo, a residential fellow at the Center for Internet & Society, is quoted on reactions to Facebook's privacy policies in this article on investmen…
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Facebook Privacy Woes Make Little Impact On Site’s Popularity
Ryan Calo, a residential fellow at the Center for Internet & Society, is quoted on changes to Facebook's privacy policies. Brian Womack of Bloomberg rep…
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Facebook Unveils New, Simpler Privacy Settings
Ryan Calo, a residential fellow at the Center for Internet & Society, talks to David Louie of KGO News about recent changes to Facebook's privacy settin…
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Congress Moves on Broadband Regulation--But to Where?
The announcement yesterday from key Senate Democrats of an effort to reform the Communications Act put me in a nostalgic mood. Here follows one of my longest ef…
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Free Speech vs. Hate Speech On Facebook
Ryan Calo, a residential fellow at the Center for Internet & Society, is quoted in this article on Facebook's monitoring of potentially offensive conten…
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Should The Law Punish Robot Tasks Differently?
I attended a fascinating thesis defense today on the subject of human-robot interaction by Stanford PhD candidate Victoria Groom. HRI experiments apparently te…
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BRIGHT IDEAS: Talking About Robotics With Ryan Calo
Ryan Calo, a residential fellow at the Center for Internet & Society, talks to Danielle Citron of Concurring Opinions about his research in the field of rob…
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The First National Broadband Plan
Over the weekend, I published an op-ed in The Des Moines Register encouraging the FCC to heed the lessons of the first national broadband plan, the one Secretar…