Digital Market Manipulation
Jon Hanson and Douglas Kysar coined the term “market manipulation” in 1999 to describe how companies exploit the cognitive limitations of consumers. Everything…
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Initial Thoughts on POTUS surveillance reforms
During a rare mid-afternoon late summer Friday press conference, President Obama outlined several actions that he believes will help restore American citizens&#…
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Google Glass sees all -- and that raises privacy concerns
"That in-your-face quality of Glass could wake up more people to their ever shrinking privacy in the rapidly advancing digital age, University of Washingto…
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The NSA/DEA Team-Up vs. Enemies Foreign and Domestic
The latest chapter in the ongoing tale of NSA overreach may be the most troubling one yet. Reuters has revealed that NSA has been sharing information with a sec…
Urban Guerrilla & Piracy Surveillance: Accidental Casualties in Fighting Piracy in P2P Networks in Europe
Copyright law is facing its biggest challenge yet as it copes with technological development and an increasingly global information market. The advent of peer-t…
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Open season on drones? Town split over licenses to hunt unmanned aircraft
"Ryan Calo, assistant professor of law at the University of Washington, calls the town's reaction a "cowboy instinct." Coming from a town tha…
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If Bruce Schneier ran the NSA, he’d ask a basic question: “Does it do any good?”
"Jennifer Granick was the first to admit that it’s difficult to know what reforms are necessary because as Schneier pointed out, it’s impossible to know wh…
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Why It’s Nearly Impossible To Stay Off Big Data’s Radar
"Aleecia M. McDonald, a privacy researcher and resident fellow at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society says web ads invisibly assign a unique numbe…
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Delivered by Drones
"“The FAA intends to announce a plan for commercial operators to seek certificates of authorization in September of 2015, but that does not mean that drone…
Now We Know About U.S. Spying
Jennifer Granick spoke at the Rally for Privacy Awareness on 8/4/13.…
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Police cameras busy snapping license plates
"“This use of license-plate scanning differs from the way police contemplate using drones, and in many ways it’s probably worse,” Calo said. “This is more…
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Deception Is at the Heart of PLSC-Winning Papers
"Each year at the Privacy Law Scholars Conference, organized by the UC Berkeley School of Law and the George Washington University (GWU) School of Law, sch…