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What you really agree to when you click 'accept'
"Aleecia McDonald is the director of privacy at the Stanford Law School's Center for Internet and Society. She notes that "such as" opens the…
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Saving Privacy
Reed Hundt proposes democratic action in response to our government’s secret infrastructure for monitoring and controlling modern communications. “Citizens,” he…
Saving Privacy
Reed Hundt calls for alternatives to framing surveillance issues in terms of privacy versus security, but the hard fact is that we cannot avoid tradeoffs. We ha…
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Who watches the watchers? Big Data goes unchecked
"“We cannot even conceive of the ways our data is collected and then used to manipulate us at our weakest moments,” said Danielle Citron, a law professor a…
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Comments from the Hoover Institution Event on Intelligence Challenges
Yesterday I attended a conference at the Hoover Institution on “Intelligence Challenges.” I also spoke on a panel in the morning about Civil Liberties. A versio…
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Study says 70% of students have sexted, so how do they feel about revenge porn?
"“For [college students] this is part of contemporary sexual expression and relationships,” says Danielle Citron, a law professor at University of Maryland…
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In Google case, E.U. court says people are entitled to control their own online histories
"Andrew McLaughlin, a former Google policy official who later worked in the Obama White House, called the European decision “a travesty.” He said, “This s…
Snapchat and FTC Privacy and Security Consent Orders
Cross-posted from LinkedIn. Co-authored with Daniel Solove. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) recently entered into a consent order with the media service Sn…
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House Judiciary Committee Approves NSA Reform Bill
""How do I compare this to what will happen if we do nothing?" asked Jennifer Granick, director of civil liberties at the Stanford Center for Int…
The Internet of Things: Global Implications of Merging the Physical and Digital Worlds
More than nine billion devices around the world are currently connected to the Internet, including computers and smartphones. That number is expected to increas…
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Manager’s Amendment Puts Back Door Searches Back In USA Freedom Act
Over at Just Security I have an analysis of the USA Freedom Act as changed by a recent Manager's Amendment. Basically, I conclude that the Manager's Ame…
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Exclusive: Emails Reveal Close Google Relationship with NSA
"Jennifer Granick, director of civil liberties at Stanford Law School’s Center for Internet and Society, said she believes information sharing between indu…