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Easily obtained subpoenas turn your personal information against you
"Even a generic name like “stanfordguy” used to log in on multiple sites could be used to determine one's real identity and theoretically be exploited…
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Exciting Time for Privacy in Canada
It’s back to school on university campuses across North America, and in the Canadian Parliament it will soon too be time to start anew. The Prime Minister of C…
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What's The Right Balance For Protecting Privacy And Promoting Accountability On The Internet?
(Co-authored with Evan Selinger and cross-posted at Forbes). According to NPR, 300 plus teenagers broke into former NFL player Brian Holloway’s vacation home…
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DOJ calls for drone privacy policy 7 years after FBI’s first drone launched
"“The main difference is that UAS will drive down the cost of aerial surveillance quite radically, as well as permit smaller and more invasive and longer f…
Debate (Round 2): Metadata and the Fourth Amendment
This post is one in a series of posts from Just Security‘s Jennifer Granick and Guest Author Orin Kerr debating the constitutionality of the NSA’s telephony met…
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Why Do We Tolerate Revenge Porn?
"In her forthcoming book Hate 3.0, University of Maryland law professor Danielle Citron tells the story of a Florida graduate student who found herself the…
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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…