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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…
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Scripps Employees Called 'Hackers' For Exposing Massive Security Flaw
""There's this idea that you can access information, but if you access it fast then you're a criminal," Granick said. "If anything,…
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Fighting Facebook, a Campaign for a People’s Terms of Service
Cross-posted from The Nation. Co-Authored with Ari Melber and Evan Selinger. Facebook is on the defensive again. Members of the social networking site sued the…
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Google's wearable Glass gadget: cool or creepy?
""The face is a really intimate place and to have a piece of technology on it is unsettling," Calo said. "Much as a drone is unsettling beca…
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Why Drones Make Us Nervous
"Ryan Calo, a law professor at the University of Washington, thinks that drones will give people the jolt they need to bring our privacy laws into the 21st…
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Airlines Can Keep You From Snapping, But Not Sharing Photos
A recent incident on a commercial airliner raises an interesting question: can an airline bar you from taking pictures on their plane? * Date Published:05/15/…
Oliver Day - Hearsay Culture - Show #184 - 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…
Internet Science Conference (2013) Setting the Scene
The 1st international conference on Internet Science was held between 9 and 11 April, 2013, in Brussels, under the aegis of the European Commission, by the EINS…
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How to Fight Revenge Porn
Cross-posted from The Atlantic Victims of non-consensual pornography, sometimes called "revenge porn," often receive little help from the law. Many w…