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Is Digital Advertising a New Form of Market Manipulation?
"In his paper entitled “Digital Market Manipulation”, professor M. Ryan Calo (who is also an affiliate scholar at The Center for Internet and Society at St…
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Soon, California kids will have the right to delete things they said online
"Still, Woodrow Hartzog, a professor and privacy law expert at the Cumberland School of Law at Samford University in Alabama, told Ars that while the law m…
Debate: Metadata and the Fourth Amendment
This post is the first in a series of posts from Just Security‘s Jennifer Granick and Guest Author Orin Kerr debating the constitutionality of the NSA’s telepho…
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Just Security Blog Launch
A new online platform launches today called Just Security, a forum on law, rights, and U.S. national security. Just Security aims to promote principled and prag…
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Are Internet Backbone Pen Registers Constitutional?
"The ruling in Smith has been widely and justly condemned—and as Jennifer Granick has ably argued here, is of dubious relevance to NSA’s bulk collection pr…
NSA Leaks Bring the Whole Idea of “Net Neutrality” Into Question
Cross-posted from Slate. Last week, in the midst of ongoing NSA secret spying revelations ranging from billion-dollar efforts to make the private accessible to…
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NSA Leaks Bring the Whole Idea of “Net Neutrality” Into Question
Cross-posted from Slate. Last week, in the midst of ongoing NSA secret spying revelations ranging from billion-dollar efforts to make the private accessible to…
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Internet Tracking Expanding, Spurs Push For More Privacy
"“If you visit one website, you have a whole bunch of other companies tracking you, as well, and then they’re tracking you on other websites, too, so they…
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Google May Stop Using 'Cookies' to Track Web Users
"Jonathan Mayer, a Stanford University professor who studies online advertising and privacy, said it was unclear that so-called anonymous codes would actua…
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Digital Advertising Alliance Exits Do Not Track Group
"Privacy advocate Jonathan Mayer, a Stanford University privacy expert who works with Mozilla, quit the group last month. "Given the lack of a viable…
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Big Data and Privacy: Thank You
Thank you to everyone who attended and participated in the Big Data and Privacy we co-hosted last week. A collection of proceedings form the conference will be…
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Do-Not-Track on the Ropes as Ad Industry Ditches W3C
"Ms. McDonald argued that there is still hope for progress and her experience has been less hampered by obstacles perceived by Mr. Mejia and other particip…