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Graduate student soars to tech policy stardom
"From serving as a consultant to law enforcement to collaborating with Firefox on a cookie-blocking feature, Jonathan Mayer J.D. ’12 Ph.D. ’16 has made a n…
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Spy tech goes cheap: Track your car, kid, or enemy for $10 a month
"Brian Pascal, a legal fellow at the University of California Hastings, told Ars that inexpensive surveillance devices like TraqCloud are “inevitable.” “O…
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Erecting a New Legal Edifice: Christopher Kuner on Transborder Data Flows
Few people personify the field they work in as much as Christopher Kuner. As a lawyer, European-American, academic and professor, and longtime leader of the ICC…
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Eight Questions On Mass Surveillance For The PCLOB
Tomorrow, all five members of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB) will testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee about their recent repo…
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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…