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Facebook’s legal team goes after defunct Yale class project
"Nazer is hoping the case can make big companies at least consider fair use before they send out automated, or near-automated, letters demanding that websi…
Status update: Facebook users now have access to PGP encryption
Today Facebook announced on its blog a new set of features adding support for the PGP email encryption system. The changes allow users to post their public emai…
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CPJ welcomes Facebook move to add PGP encryption features
""Security tools like PGP encryption are most effective when they are used widely," said CPJ Internet Advocacy Coordinator Geoffrey King. "F…
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Chicago man sues Facebook over facial recognition use in “Tag Suggestions”
"Strahilevitz told Ars that Yana Welinder, a lawyer and legal fellow with Stanford University, wrote ajournal article in 2012 in the Harvard Law Review tou…
Profs. James Grimmelmann and David Post - Hearsay Culture Show #220 - KZSU-FM
A talk show on KZSU-FM, Stanford, 90.1 FM, hosted by CIS Affiliate Scholar David S. Levine. The show includes guests and focuses on the intersection of technolo…
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After The Freak-Out Over Facebook's Emotion Manipulation Study, What Happens Now?
"Ryan Calo, an academic at the University of Washington, who was writing about corporate lab rats even before it became a hot topic of conversation. “It’s…
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Not all creepy: 3 important findings from Facebook’s emotional experiments
"University of Washington law professor Ryan Calo has recommended the creation of “Consumer Subject Review Boards”, which review the research of private co…
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The Bright Side of Facebook’s Social Experiments on Users
"“There’s enough pressure and understanding of this issue that these firms are going to have to come up with a way to make the public and regulators comfor…
The Facebook Experiment: Gambling? In This Casino?
Cross-posted from Recode. By Jules Polonetsky and Omer Tene Critics have spent the last few days castigating Facebook for a large-scale experiment conducted b…
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Facebook Playing Your Feelings Is Legal But 'Creepy,' Say Law Experts
"Ryan Calo, a privacy expert and law professor at the University of Washington, told Mashable that the study may be "creepy" but not necessarily…
How to Stop Facebook From Making Us Pawns in Its Corporate Agenda
Cross-posted from Wired. You didn’t know it, but Facebook used some of you to manipulate your friends. Even though you can’t anticipate how a company will int…
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Facebook's mood study: How you became the guinea pig
""There is no word in any privacy policy that is not there for a reason. If something is missing, then it's missing for a reason," said Brian…