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Facebook's New Privacy Tools As User Notice
Facebook previewed a new notice strategy today. Part of the proposed change is a simpler privacy policy. Meh. I, like many, am a privacy policy skeptic. I'm…
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Do Not Track FTC Comment: What It Means, How to Enforce It, and More
Last Friday we submitted a comment to the FTC articulating our vision for Do Not Track. We expanded on a number of views already expressed on this blog: Do Not…
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Guessing Why the President was a Dinner Guest in Woodside
Capturing the Moment Last week, the wizards of Silicon Valley met for dinner at John Doerr’s house in Woodside, two days after the Administration proposed its 2…
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Apply To CIS & CARS Joint Fellowship!
From vehicles that detect pedestrians in the road to cars capable of navigating urban terrain without human intervention, autonomous driving is currently one of…
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Privacy and quantum physics; privacy as religion
I’ve just returned from a week at the Schloss Dagstuhl Leibniz Center for Informatics, where I attended a “Perspectives Workshop” on “Online Privacy: Towards In…
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Hearsay Culture shows #129 and 130 -- Ryan Calo and Sarah Rose -- posted
I am pleased to post two more shows for the Winter Quarter. The first, Show #129, January 11, 2011, is my interview with CIS' own Ryan Calo, Director, Cons…
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Lovely-Faces and the Benefit of Scraping Restrictions
Website scraping, which is the bulk extraction of website information by software, is becoming an increasingly visible activity. The Lovely-Faces controversy sh…
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Anti-transparency
Quoted verbatim from a recent DMCA takedown letter: IMPORTANT NOTICE: None of the information contained in this legal notice is to be transmitted and/or relea…
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Bullish Outlook for the Privacy Profession
Ernst & Young released its annual privacy report this week predicting that “Organizations are expected to invest more money to protect personal information…
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FOIA, Trade Secrets and Restoring Antique Aircraft
Here’s an interesting (to me, at least) trade secret case involving restoration of antique aircraft. Brent Taylor purchased the carcass of an F-45, a 1930s era…
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Seeking Happily Ever After
This award-winning feature-length documentary details why there are more single 30-something women in the U.S. than ever before, and whether women of all ages a…
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Facebook Profile Betrays Yentl's Cousin's "Jewish Credentials"
Sounds like a strange heading, I know. Well – here’s the strange story to go along with it: Israeli daily Haaretz reports on its front page today that Israel de…