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To Track or “Do Not Track” – that is the Question
This blog post is re-posted with permission from the Center for Democracy & Technology blog (see here). Jules Polonetsky, Co-chair and Director of the Futu…
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Tracking the Trackers: Where Everybody Knows Your Username
Click the local Home Depot ad and your email address gets handed to a dozen companies monitoring you. Your web browsing, past, present, and future, is now assoc…
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Third-Party Web Trackers and Consumer Privacy
Jonathan Mayer outlined tracking of Internet users by third-party Web trackers, focusing on a Stanford University study on the various ways people are tracked u…
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U.S. Government Targeted WikiLeaks Volunteer, ISP From Santa Rosa
Ryan Calo, Director of the Consumer Privacy Project at CIS, spoke with the Santa Rosa Press Democrat's Derek Moore to discuss the Electronic Communications…
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Privacy cases slated for U.S. Supreme Court's new term
Lecturer Ryan Calo is quoted in the following article by Declan McCullagh of Privacy Inc. on what should be considered a "privacy harm." When police…
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Resisting Terms of Use, Or: The Revolution Will Not Be Boilerplate
Technology users are becoming frustrated over privacy-invasive terms of use agreements. In the past, this frustration was difficult to channel effectively enoug…
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Israeli court says no to forum selection clause in clickwrap agreement
In a highly important decision, the Tel Aviv District Court annulled this week a forum selection clause in a clickwrap contract, holding the user was not suffic…
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Tracking the Trackers: Self-Help Tools
A number of technologies have been touted to offer consumers control over third-party web tracking. This post reviews the tools that are available and presents…
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Twitter's Hands-Off Approach to Tweeted Terrorism
A quote Ryan Calo, CIS Director of Privacy and Robotics, gave during an interview with CNN is used in The Atlantic Wire coverage of terrorism charges in Mexico…
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Mexico's Twitter 'terrorism' case sparks controversy
Ryan Calo, CIS Director of Privacy and Robotics, spoke with CNN's Catherine E. Shoichet about Mexico's Twitter Terrorism case and what type of punishmen…
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Great Network in the Sky Giveth, Taketh Away
Isn’t it great that when your car, or phone, or laptop gets lost or stolen, you can use modern technology to find your stuff and get it back? One might think on…
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UPDATED: Golan v. Holder Merits Brief Explains Why Congress Is Not Allowed To Privatize The Public Domain
UPDATE: The government's brief and our reply are now posted below. Oral argument is scheduled for October 5. Today we filed our opening brief in the U.S. Su…