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Against Notice Skepticsm In Privacy (And Elsewhere)
Requiring notice is an extraordinarily popular way to regulate. In online privacy, for instance, giving notice about their practices is among the only affirmat…
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Hearsay Culture shows 132, 133 and 134 -- Michael Madison, Jamais Cascio and Siva Vaidhyanathan -- posted
I am pleased to post three more Hearsay Culture shows for this quarter. The first, Show 132, February 15, is my interview with Associate Dean Michael Madison o…
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Wikileaks and Freedom, Autonomy and Sovereignty in the Cloud
I have written an article on the future of sovereignty in the age of Wikileaks. I welcome Your comments. "The hidden power structures and the inner workin…
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The Problems with Requesting Access to Online Communities
In the past few weeks a few potential employers and schools were reported to have asked for access to the Facebook profile of an applicant or student. These re…
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Do Not Track, Meet IETF
Do Not Track is on its way to becoming an Internet standard. In collaboration with Sid Stamm at Mozilla we've submitted an Internet-Draft to the IETF, speci…
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Privacy and Optional Tracking Private Aircraft Flights
Several services provide real-time tracking and browsing the position of aircraft in flight. By using the aircraft’s registration number (aka the ‘tail number’,…
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Supreme Court grants cert. in Golan v. Holder
The Supreme Court granted our cert. petition this morning! Both claims (Progress Clause and First Amendment) will be reviewed on the merits. SCOTUSblog calls it…
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Media Piracy in Emerging Economies
Media Piracy in Emerging Economies is a new, comprehensive study on the impact and role of piracy on/in some of the biggest developing countries: Brazil, Russia…
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Privacy Professionals of the World, Unite!
It’s that time of year and more than 2000 privacy professionals are descending on Washington DC for the grandest of all grand privacy conferences: the IAPP Glob…
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Review of the EU Privacy Directive
Check out my blog post @ CDT on review of the EU Data Protection Directive. Excerpt: In a way, the process undertaken by the European Commission to review the…
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Robot Ethics: A Crash Course
Here's a preview of my forthcoming paper on robot ethics (with co-authors Keith Abney and George Bekey) in Artificial Intelligence journal, one of the best…
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Hearsay Culture Show #131 -- Prof. Ramesh Srinivasan -- posted
I am pleased to post Show #131, February 1, my interview with Prof. Ramesh Srinivasan, Department of Information Studies and Design|Media Arts at the University…