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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…
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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…