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The Unintended Consequences of CISPA
The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act ("CISPA") is the latest example of a depressingly common situation in Washington DC -- well-meaning…
Privacy
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Seventh Circuit Upholds First Amendment Right to Film Police
With cell phone cameras everywhere, it has become common for members of the public to film encounters with the police. Whether the police are behaving professio…
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Apple Policy has Mobile Advertisers Scrambling
* Date Published:05/09/2012 * Original Publication:SF Gate…
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Google Fine For Safari Privacy Evasion Would Be ‘Appropriate,’ Researcher Says
“I believe a fine would be appropriate,” said Jonathan Mayer, a researcher and graduate student at Stanford Law School [and CIS Student Fellow], in an email to…
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Big Google May Be Facing Bigger Fines -- But at Who's Behest?
This February, Stanford researcher Jonathan Mayer published a study that found that Google and three other companies, Vibrant Media Inc., WPP PLC’s Media Innova…
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Word of Mouth 04.28.2012
Ever get the feeling that someone is watching you? Well, you may want to get used to it. While the US government has been putting un-manned drones to heavy use…
Chain-Link Confidentiality
Disclosing personal information online often feels like losing control over one’s data forever; but this loss is not inevitable. This essay proposes a “chain-li…
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Look Up and Smile for the Drone
The Wall Street Journal noted one expert, Stanford Law School researcher Ryan Calo, who said “the domestic use of drones will likely grow as more machines are b…
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IP Lawyers Meet Tupac's Hologram
One IP issue that has been discussed recently is ownership and usage of a dead person's image. As Ryan Calo, the director for privacy and robotics at the St…
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Chain-Link Confidentiality
I have just uploaded a new essay about online privacy to SSRN that will appear in Volume 46 of the Georgia Law Review. The essay, titled "Chain-Link Confid…
Privacy in the Age of Augmented Reality - Alessandro Acquisti - Audio
In his talk, Alessandro Acquisti links two streams of research he is conducting at Carnegie Mellon University: the "behavioral economics of privacy,"…
Privacy in the Age of Augmented Reality - Alessandro Acquisti - Video
In his talk, Alessandro Acquisti links two streams of research he is conducting at Carnegie Mellon University: the "behavioral economics of privacy,"…