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Privacy and the Canadian Speech From the Throne
The Government of Canada released its Speech From the Throne (SFT) last week, spelling out its priorities and governing agenda for the next two years. While th…
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And yet it moves
Like the Catholic Church’s Congregation of the Index of 1616, which outlawed the movement of the Earth around the Sun, so too did the European Parliament restri…
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Appellate court: Nope, feds can’t just GPS track your car without a warrant
""It's awesome," Jennifer Granick, the director of civil liberties at Stanford Law School, told Ars. "On whether the Fourth Amendment ap…
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Like it? Social ads turn users into unwitting endorsers
"But many advertisers aren't completely sold on these endorsement ads — and with good reason, says Woodrow Hartzog, a professor at Samford University&#…
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New Just Security Post: We All Go Down Together
I have a new post up at Just Security today. In it, I point to the fact that ongoing NSA revelations show that significant surveillance activities are taking…
We All Go Down Together: NSA Programs Overseas Violate Americans’ Privacy, Yet Escape FISC, Congressional Oversight
Cross-posted from Just Security. Ongoing revelations show that significant NSA surveillance activities take place outside of either Foreign Intelligence Survei…
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We All Go Down Together: NSA Programs Overseas Violate Americans’ Privacy, Yet Escape FISC, Congressional Oversight
Cross-posted from Just Security. Ongoing revelations show that significant NSA surveillance activities take place outside of either Foreign Intelligence Survei…
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Monday morning, the day when women feel ugly
"But according to Ryan Calo, a law professor at the University of Washington, "the digitization of trade substantially alters the ability of firms to…
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Is This the Grossest Advertising Strategy of All Time?
"Of course, any ad worth its salt is targeted (e.g. beauty products in women's magazines, car ads in the auto section), but Calo argues that the sort o…
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Stale Cookies: How companies are tracking you online today
"“There’s a Whac-A-Mole game that’s started in earnest,” said Aleecia McDonald, director of privacy at Stanford’s Center for Internet & Society."…
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Reforming FISA: A Critical Look at the Wyden/Udall Proposal and Foreign Surveillance
In my latest blog post at Just Security, I discuss a new bipartisan bill co-sponsored by Senators Wyden and Udall, two of the most vocal critics of the NSA, as…
Reforming FISA: A Critical Look at the Wyden/Udall Proposal and Foreign Surveillance
A new bipartisan bill co-sponsored by two of the most vocal critics of the NSA does not go far enough to protect the average non-U.S. person from indiscriminate…