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Battle Looms Over Website Background Checks
Lecturer Jennifer Granick spoke with Erica E. Phillips of the Daily Journal to discuss website background checks and why the biggest argument for the screening…
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Why German Privacy Officials Don’t Like Facebook’s “like” Button
Schleswig-Holstein is a small German state located at the very northern tip of the Federal Republic. It is home for enchanting cities such as Kiel and Lübeck, l…
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Tracking the Trackers: Microsoft Advertising
Despite all the attention they've received in the debates around online privacy, cookies are far from the only way to track a user. Broadly speaking, a webs…
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Tracking the Trackers: The AdChoices Icon
(Jovanni Hernandez and Akshay Jagadeesh are the first authors of this study.) Responding to pressure from the Federal Trade Commission, in mid-2009 the largest…
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CIS on Surprisingly Free
Ryan Calo and I both recently recorded podcasts for the show Surprisingly Free, which is an excellent weekly podcast for anyone interested in law and technology…
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Guest Blogging At Concurring Opinions
I'm guest blogging over at Concurring Opinions this month. My first post explored what the domestic use of drones would mean for privacy law. I also did a t…
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Like Zombies, Newfangled Cookies, Lawsuits Respawn
This past weekend we saw another volley of rounds fired in the ongoing digital privacy wars. As with previous battles, this one started with the publication of…
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FourthParty: A New Approach to Web Measurement
Last week marked the twentieth anniversary of the public World Wide Web, and there is much to celebrate. The early web consisted of a few text pages linked toge…
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There is no such thing as anonymous online tracking
A 1993 New Yorker cartoon famously proclaimed, "On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog." The Web is a very different place today; you now leav…
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Netflix, Facebook and the law
Ryan Calo, Director of the Consumer Privacy Project at CIS, discusses the effect of the Video Privacy Protection Act on the Facebook/Netflix deal. Listen to th…
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Netflix, Facebook And The Law
Ryan Calo, CIS Director of Privacy and Robotics, is quoted in this Marketplace article on the Video Privacy Protection Act and its impact on the Facebook/Netfli…
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U of Michigan develops Telex deep-packet technology preserving free speech.
Ars Technica reports that researchers at the University of Michigan introduce technology for re-routing traffic in restrictive jurisdictions. Amusingly called…