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Web’s Reach Binds N.S.A. and Silicon Valley Leaders
"N.S.A. badges are often seen on the lapels of officials at other technology and information security conferences. “They’re very open about their interest…
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Apple joins other tech companies in detailing government requests for data
"Since the reports don't break out the number of requests by category, they're only somewhat helpful, said privacy advocates. "To lump all the…
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What Last Week's NSA Leaks Can Teach Us about Technology and Politics
Last week was a busy one for the National Security Agency. On Wednesday, the Guardian revealed a top secret court order that compelled Verizon to turn over meta…
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How to Gain an Edge Against Digital Spies
"“For some of the [government] programs, there is nothing to do unless you give up technology altogether, or restrict a lot of what makes it useful,” says…
Prof. Vance Ricks - Hearsay Culture - Show #186 - KZSU-FM
A talk show on KZSU-FM, Stanford, 90.1 FM, hosted by CIS Affiliate Scholar David S. Levine. The show includes guests and focuses on the intersection of technolo…
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NSA Leaks Prompt Lawsuit and U.N. Action
"Ryan Calo, an assistant professor at the University of Washington School of Law in Seattle and an expert on privacy issues, said that limited, public know…
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The Problems and Promise with Terms of Use as the Chaperone of the Social Web
The New Republic recently published a piece by Jeffrey Rosen titled “The Delete Squad: Google, Twitter, Facebook, and the New Global Battle Over the Future of F…
Podcast: Project Prism – Has Uncle Sam Gone Rogue?
It was hard to escape the big news this week: revelations from The Guardian and The Washington Post about a program of widespread surveillance of online social…
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Initial thoughts on the NSA-Verizon surveillance order
UPDATE #1 (1900 ET): The WaPo and Guardian report this evening that through its PRISM program, NSA also is directly tapped into the systems of many leading Int…
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FTC's Ohlhausen: Privacy Regs Could Harm Startups
"Privacy scholar Ryan Calo has argued that creepiness in advertising can be problematic in itself. How so? He says that making people feel “creeped out” on…
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How much do college students care about online privacy?
""Young people don't think about privacy of information to third parties," Hartzog said. "When they get older, it becomes more real. It…
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Taking a Flier on Big Data
"However, the level of precision that satisfies marketers is very different from the exactitude required by government agencies, says Jennifer Granick, dir…