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Mozilla: Ad Networks Have No 'Constitutional Right' To Set Cookies
"McDonald said today that even if browsers block third-party cookies, companies can still serve online ads that don't rely on data collected across mor…
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Cookie Clearinghouse Director: 'Surveillance Sales' Will Have To Go
"The purpose of the Clearinghouse is not to list “every single site on the Internet,” McDonald said. “It’s too hard for people to individually decide which…
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ODNI Statements Continue to Mislead the Public
Senior U.S. officials continue to mislead the public about NSA surveillance. As the Washington Post reported today, "details that have emerged from the ex…
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OpEd-pocylpse on NSA's illegal and unwise surveillance
This morning, the NY Times posted my op-ed, co-authored with CIS affiliate scholar Chris Sprigman, arguing that the two federal statutes the Obama Administratio…
U.S Government Surveillance: Bad for Silicon Valley, Bad for Democracy Around the World
U.S Government Surveillance: Bad for Silicon Valley, Bad for Democracy Around the World: An op ed in The Atlantic. * Publication Type:Other Writing * Publica…
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The Criminal NSA
Jennifer Granick's opinion piece "The Criminal NSA" co-authored with CIS affiliate scholar Christopher Sprigman has been published in the New York…
The Criminal N.S.A.
The Criminal N.S.A., an op ed in The New York Times. * Publication Type:Other Writing * Publication Date:06/27/2013…
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Tool Without A Handle: The Dark Side
“Tool Without a Handle: The Dark Side” “Chaos, control. Chaos, control. You like, you like?” - John Guare, Six Degrees of Separation Every tool can be m…
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Border Militarization Unacceptable Compromise
The Corker-Hoeven Amendment moved one step closer to being added to Senate Bill 744 yesterday with a 67-27 vote on a motion to invoke cloture. The Corker-Hoeve…
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Surveillance Myth #1: I Have Nothing to Hide
In the public debate over secret NSA spying, we keep hearing three refrains to justify, or at least accommodate people, to the U.S. government's surveillanc…
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Mozilla plotting block- and allow-lists for tracking Firefox cookies
""Today Mozilla is committing to work with Aleecia [McDonald of CIS] and the CCH Advisory Board, whose members include Opera Software, to develop the…
Obscurity by Design
Design-based solutions to confront technological privacy threats are becoming popular with regulators. However, these promising solutions have left the full pot…