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Spy on Your Metadata
Co-authored with Patrick Mutchler. This is a project of the Stanford Security Lab. Just over a month ago we launched MetaPhone, an Android app for crowdsourcin…
Privacy
The best week for privacy in a long time
Cross-posted from CNN. When President Barack Obama responded to this summer's torrent of disclosures about the National Security Agency by commissioning a…
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Tool Without a Handle: “Getting A Grip”
“Tool Without A Handle: Getting a Grip” In my last post, I explored how law influences use of information technology through both rules and a concomitant degr…
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Foreigners and the Review Group Report: Part 2
Yesterday, I wrote that the report from the President’s Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technologies--"Liberty And Security In A Changing W…
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President's Review Board Says Protect Thy Neighbor’s Privacy
Today’s report from the President’s Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technologies–”Liberty And Security In A Changing World”—is impressive in a n…
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Intelligence Revew Group Report Released
The much-anticipated Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technologies report (PDF) "Liberty and Security in a Changing World" was released…
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Up to Speed: Four Highlights of the White House Report on How to Change the NSA
"Michelle Richardson, legislative counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union, told the Daily Beast Wednesday that her first impression of the recommend…
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Unlikely Allies in Congress Fight to Curb the NSA
"In the campaign to reign in the NSA, Wyden ”will be crucial in keeping the liberals together, putting pressure on the administration and being able to spe…
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Anti-NSA Surveillance Senators Cheer Federal Ruling While Harry Reid Waits It Out
""Harry Reid is going to have the ultimate say on this," ACLU legislative counsel Michelle Richardson told The Huffington Post earlier this month…
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A Common Law Coup d'Etat: How NSA's Creative Interpretations Of Law Subvert Congress And The Rule of Law
Today, the federal District Court for the District of Columbia held that the NSA's bulk telephone metadata collection program under the USA PATRIOT Act viol…
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Perfect enforcement: On the ground in the red light camera wars
"Those who object to the cameras don't do so solely on the grounds of an unproven safety record. Woodrow Hartzog, a law professor at the Cumberland Sch…
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Privacy Laws Can Create Opportunities, Limitations, California Lawmakers Advised
"Aleecia McDonald, director of privacy at the Stanford Law School Center for Internet and Society, said the notice and choice concept failed. McDonald said…