How to Stop Facebook From Making Us Pawns in Its Corporate Agenda
Cross-posted from Wired. You didn’t know it, but Facebook used some of you to manipulate your friends. Even though you can’t anticipate how a company will int…
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NSA Revelations At-A-Glance
For those following or researching the NSA disclosures by Edward Snowden (or privacy issues in general) this interactive chart will be a useful tool both for re…
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Homeland Security Facility Is Testing a Fun New Biometric Program for Airports
"Ryan Calo, assistant professor of law at the University of Washington and a privacy expert, told me that he’s concerned with how facial recognition techno…
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Facebook's mood study: How you became the guinea pig
""There is no word in any privacy policy that is not there for a reason. If something is missing, then it's missing for a reason," said Brian…
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Riley, Aereo, and the "Arthur C. Clarke Rule"
It turns out that searching through the digital contents of a person’s mobile phone is more intrusive than rifling through an address book, wallet, or purse. Co…
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Court gave NSA broad leeway in surveillance, documents show
"Jennifer Granick, the director of civil liberties at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society, expressed concern about the prospect of capturing e-mai…
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Facebook Furor Is Overblown, Says CalPoly Ethicist
"It’s not clear that Facebook Inc.’s attempts to manipulate user emotion are an ethical lapse, says Patrick Lin, an associate professor in the philosophy d…
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New NSA 'Transparency Report' Raises More Questions Than It Answers
""How do you get almost 90,000 targets with one order?" wondered Jennifer Granick, director of civil liberties at the Stanford Center for Interne…
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Why the Supreme Court May Finally Protect Your Privacy in the Cloud
"The ripples from Riley may extend to the NSA’s surveillance practices, too, says Jennifer Granick, director of Civil Liberties at Stanford Law School’s Ce…
SCOTUS & Cell Phone Searches: Digital is Different
Cross-posted from Just Security. Today, the Supreme Court unanimously invalidated warrantless searches of cell phones incident to arrest in Riley v. California…
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Courts may hear challenges to secret cell tracking devices after new ruling
"Brian Pascal, a research fellow at the University of California, Hastings, told Ars that he didn’t think that this new ruling would impact metadata gather…
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Government Downplaying Sensitivity Of Metadata Collected By NSA
"“The notion that [metadata] is just a phone number seems quite inaccurate,” Mayer, a law school graduate who is now pursuing a PhD in computer science, to…