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Why Do Mannequins That Spy On Us Creep Us Out?
Ryan Calo, an assistant professor at the University of Washington School of Law and my go-to source on all things robot: “The fact that the cameras resemble peo…
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Is That A Budweiser In Your Hand?: Product Placement, Booze, And Denzel Washington
""It's not something you're legally required to do," says Daniel Nazer, a resident fellow at Stanford Law School's Fair Use Project.…
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The Internet’s Best Terrible Person Goes to Jail: Can a Reviled Master Troll Become a Geek Hero?
""If somebody mistakenly puts information out there on the web and somebody mistakenly gets that information, that's not illegal," says Jenni…
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Privacy professor to try to break Do Not Track logjam
""Stanford's Center for Internet and Society has had endless patience with DNT taking time far in excess of what I anticipated," McDonald sai…
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Facebook Post Implying User Privacy a Hoax
"If you could just post something and change a relationship, you could just go to Banana Republic and say 'Oh, is your return policy 30 days? Well my r…
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Seattle’s ‘creepy cameraman’ questions our comfort with being watched
"“Technology is a fact about the world. Those facts have changed,” Calo told me. “The law is not unfamiliar with drawing new lines.”" * Date Publish…
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Petraeus case triggers concerns about Americans' online privacy
Currently the government doesn't need a search warrant -- just a subpoena -- to access emails stored longer than 180 days, said Jennifer Granick, director o…
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Famed quotation isn't dead -- and could even prove costly
"Fair use is a "very gray area," says Julie Ahrens, who runs the Fair Use Project at Stanford University's Center for Internet and Society. &…
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Alcohol in "Flight" puts trademark laws in focus
"Trademark laws "don't exist to give companies the right to control and censor movies and TV shows that might happen to include real-world items,&…
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Use of drones by Seattle police strikes a nerve
"How can they (law enforcement) shepherd us into an age when we have drones if they don't deal with people's privacy fears?" said Ryan Calo, a…
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Chevron Subpoenas Google and Others for Private Email Info
""They just basically drag the net through these set of activists...and just basically [say], 'Let's get what we can and see what it turns up,…
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Romney and Obama Campaigns Leaking Web Site Visitor Data
But now a new study by Jonathan Mayer, a graduate student in computer science and law at Stanford University, reports that both sites are leaking information ab…