User Agreements Are Betraying You
The user agreement has become a potent symbol of our asymmetric relationship with technology firms. For most of us, it’s our first interaction with a given comp…
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Will the EU’s GDPR Rules Launch a New Era of Data Protection?
"“[GDPR] hinges on a robust notion of explaining what exactly goes on with [people’s] information,” said Andrea Matwyshyn, a professor of law and computer…
Click by click, drowning in data, we Internet ‘users’ are being used
The revelation that Cambridge Analytica was involved in the extraction of data involving over 50 million Facebook users has raised more than a few questions abo…
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Law, Borders, and Speech: Data Protection and the Right to Be Forgotten
This piece is exerpted from the Law, Borders, and Speech Conference Proceedings Volume. The conference, convened by Stanford's Center for Internet and Socie…
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Cybersecurity for the travelling scientist
"It can be tempting to try to hide information or use technological tricks such as 'duress passwords' that, if used instead of the genuine one, unl…
How companies can stay ahead of the cybersecurity curve
If you’re like me, on a given day you interact with a whole range of connected technologies for work and play. Just today, I used Box to share and download file…
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How Peter Thiel's Palantir Helped the NSA Spy on the Whole World
"The former PCAP member who did respond, Stanford privacy scholar Omer Tene, told The Intercept that he was unaware of “any specific relationship, agreemen…
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Law Profs Say Government Has Power to Demand Companies Protect Consumer Data
"On Feb. 16, eight privacy and security law professors—Kenneth A. Bamberger, Woodrow Hartzog, Chris Jay Hoofnagle, William McGeveran, Deirdre K. Mulligan,…
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What could happen if you refuse to unlock your phone at the US border?
"One of House’s lawyers, Catherine Crump, who was then an attorney at the American Civil Liberties Union and now teaches law at the University of Californi…
The Right Tools: Europe's Intermediary Liability Laws and the 2016 General Data Protection Regulation
Forthcoming in the Berkeley Technology Law Journal The so-called “Right to Be Forgotten” established by the Court of Justice of the European Union in 2014 is a…
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GDPR will require 75,000 DPOs worldwide, study shows
"Appointing a data protection officer is just the beginning, said Omer Tene, vice-president of research and education at the IAPP. “Organisations will need…
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Solving Data Protection Problems with eCommerce Directive Tools
Cross-posted to the Internet Policy Review News & Comments and Inforrm blogs. This is one of a series of posts about the pending EU General Data Protection…