How To Solve the President’s Big Data Challenge
Cross-posted from Privacy Association.org In his recent remarks on the NSA and surveillance, President Barack Obama grabbed the Big Data bull by the horns. We…
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Even (Some) Law Firms Think Robots Are The Next Big Thing
Cross-posted from Forbes. I am proud to say that I helped found the Robot Block Party in Silicon Valley. Now in its fifth year, the event brings together indu…
OfficeMax Letter Revisited: What Could A Lawyer Do For Mr. Seay?
Cross-posted from Forbes. Mike Seay wants to know why he received a letter from OfficeMax OfficeMax that referred to the death of his daughter on the front of…
Don’t Close Your Eyes to Surveillance Dangers: A Response to Richard Epstein
Richard Epstein’s office at the Hoover Institution is less than a mile from mine at Stanford Law School, and I’ve had the pleasure to hear Richard speak to the…
Atrocious Privacy Invasion: Non-Consensual Videotaping of Sex Indicted in NY
Cross-posted from Concurring Opinions. Criminalizing privacy invasions has a long history. In their ground-break article The Right to Privacy published in 1890…
Told Ya So: NSA's Collection Of Metadata Is Screamingly Illegal
This post is coauthored by Christopher Sprigman. We told you so. This week’s report from the independent Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, or PCLOB…
I See You: The Databases That Facial-Recognition Apps Need to Survive
Cross-posted from The Atlantic. Privacy concerns have been ignited by “NameTag,” a facial-recognition app designed to reveal personal information after analyzi…
What If Your Autonomous Car Keeps Routing You Past Krispy Kreme?
Cross-posted from The Atlantic. On a future road trip, your robot car decides to take a new route, driving you past a Krispy Kreme Doughnut shop. A pop-up wind…
OfficeMax Letter To 'Daughter Killed In Car Crash' Could Be Privacy's Whale Song
Cross-posted from Forbes. The anti-whaling movement failed and failed, until it didn’t. The movement took off when, in the late nineteen-sixties, scientists a…
Internet Freedom Day: This Year We Go to War for Net Neutrality
The loss of net neutrality this week was even bigger than expected. This time of year is always the worst of times and best of times for internet freedom. Inte…
Promote Transparency, Secure the Internet, and Codify the Reforms
Cross-posted from Slate. The president on Friday will give a long-awaited speech addressing what he intends to do about National Security Agency surveillance p…
Changes to Export Control Arrangement Apply to Computer Exploits and More
Cross-posted from Just Security. Last month, changes to the Wassenaar Arrangement on Export Controls for Conventional Arms and Dual-Use Goods and Technologies…