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Big Data and the Perceptual Divide
There's an old joke that goes like this: “There are only 10 types of people in the world: those who understand binary and those who don't.” Like most ol…
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Prof. David Schanzer - Hearsay Culture Show #216 - KZSU-FM
A talk show on KZSU-FM, Stanford, 90.1 FM, hosted by CIS Affiliate Scholar David S. Levine. The show includes guests and focuses on the intersection of technolo…
Techno Sapiens: The Ghost in the Data Edition
Cross-posted from Slate. Welcome to Techno Sapiens, a biweekly series of six podcasts hosted by Future Tense fellows, Christine Rosen, senior editor of the New…
Marketplace Tech for Monday, July 7, 2014
Listen to the podcast at Marketplace Tech. "First up, Ryan Calo, Associate Law Professor at the University of Washington and an affiliate scholar at the S…
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Not all creepy: 3 important findings from Facebook’s emotional experiments
"University of Washington law professor Ryan Calo has recommended the creation of “Consumer Subject Review Boards”, which review the research of private co…
Did PCLOB Answer My Eight Questions About Section 702?
TL;DR: A little bit, but not enough. Yesterday, the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB) issued a massive report about the legally and technolog…
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Did PCLOB Answer My Eight Questions About Section 702?
TL;DR: A little bit, but not enough. Yesterday, the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB) issued a massive report about the legally and technolog…
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The Bright Side of Facebook’s Social Experiments on Users
"“There’s enough pressure and understanding of this issue that these firms are going to have to come up with a way to make the public and regulators comfor…
The Facebook Experiment: Gambling? In This Casino?
Cross-posted from Recode. By Jules Polonetsky and Omer Tene Critics have spent the last few days castigating Facebook for a large-scale experiment conducted b…
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NSA reformers dismayed after privacy board vindicates surveillance dragnet
""But for the longer term goal of reining in warrantless, massive collection of communications and for getting countries to protect their communicatio…
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Facebook Playing Your Feelings Is Legal But 'Creepy,' Say Law Experts
"Ryan Calo, a privacy expert and law professor at the University of Washington, told Mashable that the study may be "creepy" but not necessarily…
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Only five countries escape NSA surveillance: Report
"Stanford Center for Internet and Society director of civil liberties, Jennifer Granick, told ZDNet that American data could be swept up by the NSA, and ma…