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The FTC and the New Common Law of Privacy
Daniel Solove and I have recently posted a draft of our new article, The FTC and the New Common Law of Privacy. One of the great ironies about information priv…
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CIS Affiliate Scholars Win Best Paper Award at 2013 PLSC
CIS affiliates Ryan Calo and Woodrow Hartzog won the two best paper awards at the 2013 Privacy Law Scholars Conference. Ryan Calo for his paper “Digital Market…
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Why Opt Out Of Tracking? Here's A Reason
The Stanford Center for Internet and Society, where I am an affiliate scholar, is a thought leader on consumer privacy and a source for potential solutions. Th…
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Initial Thoughts on POTUS surveillance reforms
During a rare mid-afternoon late summer Friday press conference, President Obama outlined several actions that he believes will help restore American citizens&#…
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The NSA/DEA Team-Up vs. Enemies Foreign and Domestic
The latest chapter in the ongoing tale of NSA overreach may be the most troubling one yet. Reuters has revealed that NSA has been sharing information with a sec…
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Give Me Complicity or Give Me Death: Lavabit Chooses Death
Today, Lavabit, an email service provider that promised its customers better privacy and security than other publicly available services, shut its doors. Readi…
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Ninth Circuit Rules That Celebrity "Rights" Trump Free Speech
Cross-posted from EFF. Should a minor celebrity's right to wring every drop he can from his fame trump the right to create a realistic work? The Ninth Circ…
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The Ethics of Saving Lives With Autonomous Cars Are Far Murkier Than You Think
Cross-posted from Wired. If you don’t listen to Google’s robot car, it will yell at you. I’m not kidding: I learned that on my test-drive at a Stanford confere…
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Amash Amendment to defund NSA surveillance fails narrowly
In a closely watched vote that ended within the past hour, the US House of Representatives narrowly rejected Rep. Justin Amash's (R-MI) amendment (205-217)…
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Secret FISA Court Must Go
Chris Sprigman and I have a new piece up at The Daily Beast about NSA illegal mass surveillance. This time we're looking at the role of the secret FISA Cour…
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Congress and the Justice Dept's Dangerous Attempts to Define “Journalist” Threaten to Exclude Bloggers
Cross-posted from EFF. Lawmakers in Washington are again weighing in on who should and should not qualify as a journalist—and the outcome looks pretty grim for…
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Calling All Big Data Experts for Amicus Brief in Phone Records Surveillance Cases
As you may know, both the ACLU and EPIC have brought legal challenges to the NSA's collection of Americans' phone records and related traffic data (meta…