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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…
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Petraeus case triggers concerns about Americans' online privacy
Currently the government doesn't need a search warrant -- just a subpoena -- to access emails stored longer than 180 days, said Jennifer Granick, director o…
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FISA Amendments Act Is Way Worse for Privacy Than Title III
Advocates for renewal of the FISA Amendments Act (FAA) often argue that the statute poses no more harm to the privacy of innocent Americans than does the Wireta…
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FISA Amendments Act Misconceptions Fueled by Confusion in the Senate Committee Report
Taking a close look at the Senate Intelligence Committee report on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) Amendments Act (FAA) renewal helps explain w…
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The FISA Amendments Act Authorizes Warrantless Spying on Americans
Next week, the lame duck Congress will take up the issue of whether to extend the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) Amendments Act (FAA) of 2008. Th…