State of Surveillance: Police, Privacy and Technology
"State of Surveillance" examines new technologies police departments are using to fight crime and the civil liberties concerns raised by these tools.…
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My Comments On NSA Spying to PCLOB
Today I filed comments with the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB) in connection with its hearing on section 702 of the FISA Amendments Act. Th…
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The Morning Risk Report: FTC Wins Wyndham Skirmish, Battle Goes On
"Andrea Matwyshyn, a professor of law and business ethics at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, and an advisor to the FTC told Risk & Comp…
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Big Privacy Win in the EU
Today, the European Court of Justice struck down the European Union’s 2006 Data Retention Directive. That policy required member states to force communications…
Browsing with Tor: Online Anonymity to Outsmart the NSA - Tom Lowenthal
CIS Tech Workshop with Tom Lowenthal - Browsing with Tor: Online Anonymity to Outsmart the NSA https://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/events/cis-tech-workshop-tom-lowen…
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Connecting the Dots Between Cookies and Identities
"Assuming an adversary, whether a criminal or intelligence agency, has a presence on the network, the working premise here is that the first- and third-par…
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Poll: Tech Companies Encroach Too Much on Personal Data
"Public sensitivity about privacy was heightened by revelations of U.S. surveillance activities by the National Security Agency, as leaked by former spy co…
The FTC and Privacy and Security Duties for the Cloud
Third-party data service providers, especially providers of cloud computing services, present unique and difficult privacy and data security challenges. While m…
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Pornography, Children and Parents
"To the Editor: The article throws into stark relief the differences between the United States and Britain and why we should be grateful for the First Ame…
The Content Collection Controversy
The following is audio of the conference last week in Austin hosted by the Intelligence Studies Project, a joint venture of the Strauss Center and Clements Cent…
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With California’s red light cameras, are pictures admissible evidence?
"“This is the first case I’ve seen precisely along these lines,” said Woodrow Hartzog, a professor of law at the Cumberland School of Law at Sanford Univer…
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Ad tracking: Is anything being done?
""We don't need to tell the Web server nearly so much as we do right now," says Jonathan Mayer, a Stanford University grad student and former…