Data Collection & Consent: Next Steps for Digital Advertising
As part of the Global Data Protection policy workshop at this year’s Privacy Identity Innovation conference, we hosted a session titled “Data Collection and Con…
Do Not Track
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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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Do Not Track proposal is DOA
""The parties are now further apart on the negotiations than they ever had been," said Jonathan Mayer, a Stanford privacy researcher and Do Not T…
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‘Do Not Track’ Rules Come a Step Closer to an Agreement
"“On substance, with a great deal of additional work issue-by-issue, it is not impossible to make this draft work, perhaps in 2014,” Aleecia McDonald, dire…
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Do-Not-Track Talks Could Be Running Off the Rails
"“I think it’s right to think about shutting down the process and saying we just can’t agree,” Mr. Mayer said. “We gave it the old college try. But sometim…
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Will Congress Unfriend Mark Zuckerberg?
"Aleecia McDonald, director of privacy for the Stanford Center for Internet and Society, agrees that "Coming to a common understanding of ways to put…
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Boot up: brains v games, Windows 8 v the 90%, shrinking tablets grow, and more
"The Verge Firefox is set to start blocking cookies from third-party ad networks by default, thanks to a patch submitted by Stanford law student and online…
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Can I Get Some Privacy?
Jennifer Granick, Aleecia McDonald, Jonathan Mayer and Arvind Narayanan discuss data privacy in this cover story by Stanford Magazine. * Date Published:03/11/…
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Firefox 22 will block third-party cookies
"Jonathan Mayer, a researcher at Stanford, has contributed a patch for Firefox that will block third-party cookies from installing on the user's browse…
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Firefox to follow Safari, start blocking cookies from third-party advertisers
"Firefox is set to start blocking cookies from third-party ad networks by default, thanks to a patch submitted by Stanford law student and online privacy a…
Innovation or Exploitation (Video)
Have you ever borrowed a smartphone without asking? Modified a URL? Scraped a website? Called an undocumented API? Congratulations: you might have violated fede…
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APPS Act implications: What developers should know about user privacy, consent
"According to Aleecia McDonald, director of privacy at the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School, the APPS Act is fairly well-tailored to…