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CIS & The Day We Fight Back
Today, Stanford’s Center for Internet and Society joins Greenpeace, Mozilla, Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Libertarian Party, and an array of ideologicall…
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Technology outpacing D.C.’s Do Not Track debate
The full article can be read by subscribers of Politico. https://www.politicopro.com/go/?id=30547 * Date Published:02/05/2014 * Original Publication:Politic…
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Microsoft, Facebook, Google and Yahoo release US surveillance requests
"“We still believe more transparency is needed so everyone can better understand how surveillance laws work and decide whether or not they serve the public…
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Reforming 702: Does NSA Minimize Cloud Files?
Yesterday, I wrote generally about the problems with section 702 of the FISA Amendments Act (FAA). Today I focus on categories of information—including content—…
How To Solve the President’s Big Data Challenge
Cross-posted from Privacy Association.org In his recent remarks on the NSA and surveillance, President Barack Obama grabbed the Big Data bull by the horns. We…
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How To Solve the President’s Big Data Challenge
"To help perform such complex calculations and weighty value choices, we support exploring Ryan Calo’s proposal for engaging ethical review boards to vet a…
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Another Super Bowl Ad Fest, This Time on the Cellphone
"“When it rolls out, you will see all this utility for it,” said Ryan Calo, an assistant professor of law at the University of Washington in Seattle. “And…
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How Advertisers Can Use Your Personal Information To Make You Pay Higher Prices
"We are at the start of a massive shift; As Calo describes it, “The truth is that we are only beginning to understand how vast asymmetries of information c…
OfficeMax Letter Revisited: What Could A Lawyer Do For Mr. Seay?
Cross-posted from Forbes. Mike Seay wants to know why he received a letter from OfficeMax OfficeMax that referred to the death of his daughter on the front of…
Don’t Close Your Eyes to Surveillance Dangers: A Response to Richard Epstein
Richard Epstein’s office at the Hoover Institution is less than a mile from mine at Stanford Law School, and I’ve had the pleasure to hear Richard speak to the…
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Former Bush Officials Knock RNC Call to End NSA Surveillance
""Were we really expected to believe that all these provisions allow the government to collect in bulk the telephone records — as well as Internet rec…
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NSA phone records program aids investigations, defenders say
"The collection of so much data diverts the attention of investigators from real terrorism plots, said Michelle Richardson, legislative counsel with the Am…