New Ruling Shows the NSA Can’t Legally Justify Its Phone Spying Anymore
Cross-posted from Wired. The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals said no this week to tracking your movements using data from your cell phone without a warrant w…
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As a Stanford engineering student and lawyer, Jonathan Mayer discredits NSA claims
"Jonathan Mayer's education path is unusual: He has earned a Stanford law degree while working on his PhD in computer science. He did research with a f…
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Microsoft Fights U.S. Government Over Rights to Data on Foreign Servers
""It's a bad interpretation of the statute," Christopher Sprigman, a law professor at New York University, told Mashable. "This is just…
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Eleventh Circuit Says No to Warrantless Cell Tracking, Calls Other Metadata Programs Into Question
Today, the Eleventh Circuit rejected the exceedingly common law enforcement practice of warrantlessly tracking suspects’ physical location using cell phone towe…
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Are business owners who don’t invest in social media negligent?
"In his paper entitled Digital Market Manipulation, Professor Ryan Calo suggests that a market mediated by technology creates a “sea change in the way comp…
Where all those digital cookies came from
Listen to the full interview at Marketplace Tech. "It was about consumer convenience," says Ryan Calo, a professor of internet and privacy law at the…
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Update on Privacy From Canada
In unveiling its Speech From the Throne (SFT) last October, the Government spelled out its priorities and governing agenda leading up to the next federal electi…
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Interviews: Jennifer Granick Answers Your Questions
Jennifer Granick, CIS Director of Civil Liberties, was recently interviwed by Slashdot users about surveillance, data protection, copyright, and number of other…
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Should We Centralize the Right to be Forgotten Clearing House?
Being in Silicon Valley during the time when the honourable Court of Justice of the European Union "cracks" its epic right to be forgotten ruling, is…
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Grad student has already made a mark in consumer privacy, U.S. spying
Read the full profile of Jonathan Mayer at the Los Angeles Times. "Jonathan Mayer is not a typical Stanford University graduate student. Already, at age 2…
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Self-Driving Cars Will Turn Surveillance Woes Into a Mainstream Worry
"It’s quite clear: for most people, the link between government surveillance and freedom is more plainly understood by cars, rather than personal computers…
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Just how much personal information does phone metadata reveal?
"Stanford University Ph.D. student Jonathan Mayer and his research partner created an Android app called MetaPhone that asked users to volunteer their phon…