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Tracking the Trackers: To Catch a History Thief
Last week we reported some early results from the Stanford Security Lab's new web measurement platform on how advertising networks respond to opt outs and D…
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Tracking the Trackers: Early Results
Over the past several months researchers at the Stanford Security Lab have been developing a platform for measuring dynamic web content. One of our chief applic…
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Supreme Court Grants Cert in Fourth Amendment Cases, will review GPS Privacy, Legitimacy of Cut and Paste Language in Warrants
[For the original of this post, with links, go to the ZwillGen blog]: The U.S. Supreme Court promises some interesting Fourth Amendment activity next term, havi…
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Court Holds ECPA allows Myspace to Disclose Private Messages Pursuant to Out Of State Warrant
On June 1, Judge Kaplan of the Southern District of New York dismissed the complaint in Hubbard v. Myspace. Hubbard is the latest case to reject the claim that…
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Proposed GPS Act Clarifies, Improves Location Privacy
On June 15, Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) and Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) announced the Geolocational Privacy and Surveillance Act, a statute which would require law e…
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Another State Supreme Court Considers Warrantless GPS Tracking
On Friday, the ACLU of Delaware filed a brief with the Delaware Supreme Court arguing that law enforcement agents should not be permitted to attach a GPS device…
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Is It Tracking Or Personalization? Ask The User
Fellow Ryan Calo spoke with James Temple of The San Francisco Chronicle on how great transparency and control by companies can actually improve the accuracy of…
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Argentine Court Blocks Google 'Suggested' Searches
Fellow Ryan Calo is quoted in a story on CNN.com about an injunction which blocks Google from "suggesting" searches in Argentina that lead to websites…
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Finding Middle Ground In The Do-Not-Track Debate
Publication Date: May 15, 2011 Source: San Francisco Chronicle Author: James Temple Fellow Ryan Calo spoke with James Temple of the San Francisco Chronicle on…
Privacy's Broken Windows: An Invitation to Professor Abril
Privacy’s Broken Windows: An Invitation to Professor Abril, 1 WAKE FOREST LAW REVIEW ONLINE 69 (2011) * Publication Type:Academic Writing * Publication Date:…
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Article on Online Advertising and Privacy in the May issue of Communications of the ACM
The May 2011 issue of Communications of the ACM has a Viewpoint article entitled, "Economic and Business Dimensions: Online Advertising, Behavioral Targeti…
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The Promise of Privacy Controls
Privacy settings and other technological controls used to protect privacy have been justifiably criticized a bit lately. Danielle Citron recently blogged at Con…