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Beastie Boys Gotta Fight, But Probably Won't Win
“This is exactly what fair use gives you the right to do,” said Julie Ahrens, the director of copyright and fair use at Stanford Law School's Center for the…
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Why you need this simple app that hands over all your metadata
"‟Our hypothesis is that phone metadata reflects personal information, such as your location, age, gender, employment, relationships, and interests,” Mayer…
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Revenge porn websites taking advantage of weak privacy laws
""You have a huge uphill battle," said attorney Colette Vogele, co-founder of Without My Consent, an organization helping victims of online harra…
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Bad Connection - The telecom industry should be embarrassed by its silence on surveillance.
"Richard Salgado, director of law enforcement and information security matters for Google, confers with Pablo Chavez, Google director of publicity, while t…
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An End to Traffic Jams Forever
"So it was intriguing to hear policy and automation expert, Bryant Walker Smith, at the Georgetown symposium. Smith is a fellow at Stanford Law School’s Ce…
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Wrap Contract Symposium: Response to Calo and Cherry
"Ryan Calo focuses on the role of technological design in contract formation and enforcement which is not surprising given his extensive expertise and rese…
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Why states are the big winner in the $17 million Google-Safari settlement
""The state attorneys general have both the inclination and the legal latitude … to be vigorous enforcers on consumer privacy," said Mayer. "…
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Boston policemen complain about new plan to watch their movements
It looks like Boston’s Finest is going to be watched by its own. As the result of new contract negotiations between the City of Boston and the Boston Police Dep…
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FTC Names Latanya Sweeney as Chief Technologist; Andrea Matwyshyn as Policy Advisor
Federal Trade Commission Chairwoman Edith Ramirez announced the appointments of Latanya Sweeney as the agency’s Chief Technologist and Andrea Matwyshyn as a Sen…
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When Apps Attack
My colleague Yoshi told me an interesting story the other day. He looked down at his smart phone to find a large spider running across it. Understandably, my…
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Asian firms should trust no one but the tech
It took a while, but it seems revelations that the U.S. government has been brazenly running surveillance across the globe have finally taken a toll on American…
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With Google Books, 'Fair Use' Keeps Widening
A federal judge ruled Thursday that Google Inc.'s project to digitize the full text of millions of copyright-protected books without permission counted as l…