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Who Can Read Your Emails Now?
"Law enforcement and civil parties could also get a public email provider to turn over messages with less than a warrant if the email isn't considered…
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The Battle Over Revenge Porn: Can Hunter Moore, the Web’s Vilest Entrepreneur, Be Stopped?
"“Under criminal law, state and federal law there exist cyberstalking laws that cover the very activity that [Sarah’s] perpetrator is engaged in, which is…
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Aleecia McDonald Appointed Director of Privacy at the Center for Internet and Society
Cross-posted from SLS News. STANFORD, Calif., December 3, 2012— Stanford Law School today announced the appointment of Aleecia M. McDonald as Director of Priva…
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Weev Speaks
Notorious hacker "Weev" joins Hufftington Post after being found guilty on charges of breaching AT&T's security. Is his conviction a blow to f…
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Why Do Mannequins That Spy On Us Creep Us Out?
Ryan Calo, an assistant professor at the University of Washington School of Law and my go-to source on all things robot: “The fact that the cameras resemble peo…
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The Internet’s Best Terrible Person Goes to Jail: Can a Reviled Master Troll Become a Geek Hero?
""If somebody mistakenly puts information out there on the web and somebody mistakenly gets that information, that's not illegal," says Jenni…
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Privacy professor to try to break Do Not Track logjam
""Stanford's Center for Internet and Society has had endless patience with DNT taking time far in excess of what I anticipated," McDonald sai…
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Facebook Post Implying User Privacy a Hoax
"If you could just post something and change a relationship, you could just go to Banana Republic and say 'Oh, is your return policy 30 days? Well my r…
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Call For Papers: Robotics and the Law Conference at Stanford Law School
CALL FOR PAPERS Deadline for proposals: January 18, 2013 The program committee of We Robot: Getting Down To Business invites submissions from legal scholars a…
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Why Privacy Matters
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Surveillance, Scale, and Standing
Fourth Amendment jurisprudence has always had a contentious relationship with innovation. From wiretapping pay phones to GPS units, advancing technology has con…
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Seattle’s ‘creepy cameraman’ questions our comfort with being watched
"“Technology is a fact about the world. Those facts have changed,” Calo told me. “The law is not unfamiliar with drawing new lines.”" * Date Publish…