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'Do Not Track' Web System Falls Off The Rails
CIS Resident Fellow Aleecia McDonald and Student Fellow Jonathan Mayer interviewed on All Things Considered about Do Not Track. Read full transcript at origina…
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World's Most Wired Computer Scientist
Arvind Narayanan’s business card is an exercise in brevity. It contains no data except his name and the words “Google me,” a fitting calling card for an academi…
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Apple Policy has Mobile Advertisers Scrambling
* Date Published:05/09/2012 * Original Publication:SF Gate…
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Google Fine For Safari Privacy Evasion Would Be ‘Appropriate,’ Researcher Says
“I believe a fine would be appropriate,” said Jonathan Mayer, a researcher and graduate student at Stanford Law School [and CIS Student Fellow], in an email to…
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Big Google May Be Facing Bigger Fines -- But at Who's Behest?
This February, Stanford researcher Jonathan Mayer published a study that found that Google and three other companies, Vibrant Media Inc., WPP PLC’s Media Innova…
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Sharp Differences Remain Between Companies and Advocates on Do-Not-Track
Online companies on Thursday reached broad agreements with privacy activists and government regulators on limiting collection of customer information. But sharp…
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Do Not Track' Web Browser Option Gains Steam
CIS Student Fellow Jonathan Mayer interviewed in this Vermont Public Radio story about the Do Not Track browser option that is gaining popularity. Government r…
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Stanford Grad Student Investigates Online Privacy
Stanford's Workshop on Internet Tracking, Advertising and Privacy last year was attended by executives from big valley tech companies, important privacy res…
To Track or “Do Not Track”: Advancing Transparency and Individual Control in Online Behavioral Advertising
Authors: Omer Tene & Jules Polonetsky From the Minnesota Journal of Law, Science & Technology Voume 13, Issue 1, Winter 2012. * Publication Type:Aca…
Third-Party Web Tracking: Policy and Technology
John Mitchell and I have written a new paper that synthesizes research on policy and technology issues surrounding third-party web tracking. It will appear at t…
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Apple Safari Update Promises 11 Percent JavaScript Boost
* Date Published:03/14/2012 * Original Publication:PC Mag…
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Google's Moves Raise Questions About 'Don't be Evil' Motto
* Date Published:03/12/2012 * Original Publication:Mercury News…