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Will Disney Let You See This Movie?
Randy Moore’s dark drama Escape From Tomorrow premiered this week at the Sundance Film Festival and quickly became one of the most buzzed-about oddities in Park…
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DVR Protections Invoked to Pause Associated Press
The AP's argument is "unfounded and dangerous to innovation," according to the brief authored by Julie Ahrens, of Stanford Law School's Center…
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London's Tube Is Getting 'Contactless' Payments. Could They Work in the U.S.?
In a conversation with Ryan Calo, a law professor at the University of Washington and privacy expert, he pointed out that if companies use information about how…
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New film goes in search of Google's first privacy policy
Ryan Calo, an assistant professor at the University of Washington School of Law, has called for companies to use simple icons denoting how user data is collecte…
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New Facebook Tool, Te'o Scandal Fan Flames of Privacy Debate
"It's fair to question the common narrative that because [Graph] Search respects privacy settings, then there aren't privacy issues,"said Wood…
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Aaron Swartz and the law
As Jennifer Granick, director of civil liberties at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society, recently wrote: "'Authorization' gives great powe…
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Why Tweeting MLK's "I Have a Dream" Speech Now Constitutes Civil Disobedience
Citizens took to the digital streets today to celebrate what has become known as “Internet Freedom Day.” The new holiday celebrates users’ ability to speak, sha…
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The Case of Aaron Swartz
"But lost in the praise is the fact that such an amendment wouldn’t necessarily, as Jennifer Granick of the Center for Internet Law and Society observed da…
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Swartz’s death shines light on strict hacking laws
"“The government should have never thrown the book at Aaron for accessing MIT’s network and downloading scholarly research,” said Marcia Hoffman, senior st…
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With Facebook search, users may lose their sense of obscurity
"A lot of this stuff that was previously unlikely to be seen outside of a small group of people will now easily be found through search on Facebook,"…
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Facebook introduces new search tool
""People who interact socially online respond much better when they have a little time to remove or make more obscure information that is going to bec…
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Big Data Meets Big Brother in the Passenger Screening Line
"The level of precision that satisfies advertisers is very different from the amount of exactitude federal authorities need, said Jennifer Granick, directo…