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Blurring the Situation
Abercrombie & Fitch has offered to pay Jersey Shore cast member Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino not to wear its clothing. I hesitate to give this publicity…
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Tracking the Trackers: Microsoft Advertising
Despite all the attention they've received in the debates around online privacy, cookies are far from the only way to track a user. Broadly speaking, a webs…
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Tracking the Trackers: The AdChoices Icon
(Jovanni Hernandez and Akshay Jagadeesh are the first authors of this study.) Responding to pressure from the Federal Trade Commission, in mid-2009 the largest…
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New Hearsay Culture shows with Prof. Peter Galison and Kevin Kelly posted
I am pleased to post two more Hearsay Culture shows for this summer quarter. The first is Show #145, July 27, my interview with Prof. Peter Galison of Harvard…
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CIS on Surprisingly Free
Ryan Calo and I both recently recorded podcasts for the show Surprisingly Free, which is an excellent weekly podcast for anyone interested in law and technology…
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Google's Patent Indigestion
$12.5 Billion for a company with a portfolio of 17,000 patents is major news. This news comes on the heels of Google being 0-for-3 in playing big strategic pat…
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Robots on the Rise
Consumer robotics and Ryan Calo, director of Robotics at CIS, profiled in this SF gate article. Technical manuals and popular fiction helped thrust robots into…
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Guest Blogging At Concurring Opinions
I'm guest blogging over at Concurring Opinions this month. My first post explored what the domestic use of drones would mean for privacy law. I also did a t…
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Like Zombies, Newfangled Cookies, Lawsuits Respawn
This past weekend we saw another volley of rounds fired in the ongoing digital privacy wars. As with previous battles, this one started with the publication of…
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FourthParty: A New Approach to Web Measurement
Last week marked the twentieth anniversary of the public World Wide Web, and there is much to celebrate. The early web consisted of a few text pages linked toge…
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New Hearsay Culture shows with Prof. Archon Fung and Micah Sifry posted
The focus of much of my research and writing is the role of secrecy in intellectual property and its impact on governmental operations and society. Thus, I'…
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New Hearsay Culture show with Prof. Michael Risch posted
I'm pleased to post the first show in the summer quarter, Show #142, June 29, my interview with Prof. Michael Risch of Villanova University School of Law.…