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The Problems with Requesting Access to Online Communities
In the past few weeks a few potential employers and schools were reported to have asked for access to the Facebook profile of an applicant or student. These re…
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Do Not Track, Meet IETF
Do Not Track is on its way to becoming an Internet standard. In collaboration with Sid Stamm at Mozilla we've submitted an Internet-Draft to the IETF, speci…
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Facebook Develops New Privacy Policy
Lecturer Ryan Calo spoke with Mike Swift of the San Jose Mercury News about Facebook's privacy policy and its proposed use of interactive tools to allow use…
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Privacy and Optional Tracking Private Aircraft Flights
Several services provide real-time tracking and browsing the position of aircraft in flight. By using the aircraft’s registration number (aka the ‘tail number’,…
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Privacy Professionals of the World, Unite!
It’s that time of year and more than 2000 privacy professionals are descending on Washington DC for the grandest of all grand privacy conferences: the IAPP Glob…
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Review of the EU Privacy Directive
Check out my blog post @ CDT on review of the EU Data Protection Directive. Excerpt: In a way, the process undertaken by the European Commission to review the…
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Robot Ethics: A Crash Course
Here's a preview of my forthcoming paper on robot ethics (with co-authors Keith Abney and George Bekey) in Artificial Intelligence journal, one of the best…
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Facebook's New Privacy Tools As User Notice
Facebook previewed a new notice strategy today. Part of the proposed change is a simpler privacy policy. Meh. I, like many, am a privacy policy skeptic. I'm…
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Do Not Track FTC Comment: What It Means, How to Enforce It, and More
Last Friday we submitted a comment to the FTC articulating our vision for Do Not Track. We expanded on a number of views already expressed on this blog: Do Not…
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Privacy and quantum physics; privacy as religion
I’ve just returned from a week at the Schloss Dagstuhl Leibniz Center for Informatics, where I attended a “Perspectives Workshop” on “Online Privacy: Towards In…
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'Do Not Track' Internet Privacy Bill Introduced In House
Lecturer Ryan Calo spoke with David Sarno of the Los Angeles Times about the recent bill sponsored by Rep Jackie Speier (D-Calif.) to force online marketers to…
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5Across: Online Privacy And The 'Do Not Track' Debate
Lecturer Ryan Calo participated in a round table discussion featured by PBS's MediaShift .The show's host, Mark Glaser, filed the following story on the…