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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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Exclusive: Yahoo seeks to reveal its fight against NSA Prism requests
""Revealing what went on in the court is critical to having a democracy," said Jennifer Stisa Granick, a civil liberties expert at Stanford law s…
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The Money Side of Driverless Cars
"“Automation is challenging all sorts of traditional revenue sources for cities and states,” said Bryant Walker Smith, a fellow at the Center for Internet…
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Disruptions: How Driverless Cars Could Reshape Cities
"“What automation is going to allow is repurposing, both of spaces in cities, and of the car itself,” said Ryan Calo, an assistant professor at the Univers…
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U.S. Border Agency Allows Others to Use Its Drones
"“The danger comes from dragnet surveillance,” is how Ryan Calo, a law professor at the University of Washington, described it. He called himself mostly a…
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Tools To Help You Hide Online Raise The Ire Of Advertisers
"That master list will be the Cookie Clearinghouse, which will be hosted at Stanford." * Date Published:07/02/2013 * Original Publication:NPR…
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Mozilla: Ad Networks Have No 'Constitutional Right' To Set Cookies
"McDonald said today that even if browsers block third-party cookies, companies can still serve online ads that don't rely on data collected across mor…
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Cookie Clearinghouse Director: 'Surveillance Sales' Will Have To Go
"The purpose of the Clearinghouse is not to list “every single site on the Internet,” McDonald said. “It’s too hard for people to individually decide which…
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The Criminal NSA
Jennifer Granick's opinion piece "The Criminal NSA" co-authored with CIS affiliate scholar Christopher Sprigman has been published in the New York…
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Driverless Cars Are Likely to Get Boost From DOT Ruling
""Connected cars aren't the same thing as automated cars, but at some point they converge," says Bryant Walker Smith, a lecturer at Stanford…
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Mozilla plotting block- and allow-lists for tracking Firefox cookies
""Today Mozilla is committing to work with Aleecia [McDonald of CIS] and the CCH Advisory Board, whose members include Opera Software, to develop the…
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Third-Party Blocking Moves Forward For Mozilla’s Firefox Browser
"After a period of review, Firefox decided to go ahead with plans to block third-party cookies for its new version of the web browser. The non-profit organ…