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A Tool Without a Handle
This is a short essay to introduce three topics I’ll be exploring in various ways, including writing, talking, and reading: 1) How metaphor powerfully shapes t…
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On government access to communications data
The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals has recently decided in United States v. Skinner that police does not need a warrant to obtain GPS location data for mobile p…
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Spies Like Us: We’re All Big Brother Now
Even our traditional definition of "privacy" may no longer apply in a world of omnipresent cameras and recorders, according to Woodrow Hartzog, assist…
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How Much Data Can Facebook Collect Before the FTC Gets Involved?
Facebook has defended its new in-store tracking partnership with Datalogix, which gives Facebook access to our offline shopping habits via our rewards cards, by…
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Facebook Stops Asking Users To 'Snitch' On Friends With Fake Names
“Facebook’s insistence that it will ‘not be using this data for enforcement actions’ puts the company and users in a difficult position,” says law professor Woo…
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Digital data mining spurs efforts to curb use without permission
Aleecia McDonald, a privacy researcher and Fellow at the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School, says her work on users' understanding of di…
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Big Data for All: Privacy and User Control in the Age of Analytics
Much has been written over the past couple of years about “big data” (See, for example, here and here and here). In a new article, Big Data for All: Privacy and…
Free Speech on YouTube: Google's Lose-Lose Situation
CIS Affiliate Scholar Marvin Ammori and New America Senior Fellow Rebecca MacKinnon discuss Google's decision to restrict access to an anti-Islamic video th…
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On Reverse Engineering Privacy Law
Michael Birnhack, a professor at Tel Aviv University Faculty of Law, is one of the leading thinkers about privacy and data protection today (for some of his pre…
Dr. Deborah Peel - Hearsay Culture - Show #171 - 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 technol…
Prof. Woodrow Hartzog and Fred Stutzman - Hearsay Culture - Show #170 - 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 technol…
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Ask the experts: Drones
Is there any indication of cost effectiveness and / or life preservation by the use of drone strikes? Ryan Calo: It turns out that the bigger military drones u…