The Changing Attitudes Towards Cyber Gender Harassment: Anonymous as a Guide?
In 2007 technologist Kathy Sierra faced graphic rape and death threats on her blog Creating Passionate Users and in her email inbox. Around the same time group…
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Let The Sun Shine In: WaPo and the Magistrates' Revolt
Over at Just Security, I have a new piece on the Washington Post's interesting story about the increasingly aggressive role some federal magistrate judges a…
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Quinn: Supreme Court should clarify Fourth Amendment rights in the digital age
""Some members of the court will certainly try to consider the place mobile devices play in modern life," said Jennifer Granick, director of civi…
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Good Fences Make Better Data Brokers
Woodrow Hartzog, Chain Link Confidentiality, 46 Georgia L. Rev. 657 (2012) available at SSRN. Since at least the early 2000s, privacy scholars have illuminated…
How Technology Broke Privacy
One of the greatest challenges of living in the future is that it mostly looks just like the present. We have self-driving cars, commercial spaceflight, powerfu…
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Search Me: Managing Unwanted Search Results On Your Name
This week I had a request for privacy information that went something like this: I am starting a new project and expect people to search my name online. There…
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This Guy Hunts Down The Men Behind Revenge Porn Websites
"Citron and Franks both admire his work, but say it can’t stem the larger tide. “It is a drop in the bucket,” says Citron. “There are still over 40 sites d…
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Researcher proposes alert tool for managing online privacy risks
"What we need is a way of getting all the relevant privacy information in a timely, applicable and focused fashion. Arvind Narayanan, Assistant Professor o…
Email Encryption: Pretty Good Privacy Even when Someone's Listening
This event was hosted by the Stanford Center for Internet and Society. https://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/events/cis-tech-workshop-tom-lowenthal-ema... Pretty-good…
Eternal vigilance is a solvable technology problem: A proposal for streamlined privacy alerts
Consider three recent news articles about online privacy: Google+ added a new feature that shows view counts on everything you post, including your photos. It’…
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Q&A with Privacy Expert Omer Tene
"Q. What is the best part of your job? A. All parts of my job are “the best.” Privacy is a fascinating field that’s evolving with astounding speed and mak…
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Debunking the First Amendment Myths Surrounding Revenge Porn Laws
"Another way to understand the constitutionality of revenge porn statutes is through the lens of confidentiality law. Woodrow Hartzog persuasively contends…