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What happens online stays online: Comments on "Do Not Track"
Stanford Center The FTC’s Do Not Track (DNT) proposal would essentially provide online users with a convenient universal opt-out of …. well, what exactly? Ad t…
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You've Been Tagged
An interesting case with big privacy implications looming: A Kentucky Court of Appeals holds you don’t need a person’s permission to tag them in a Facebook phot…
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Against Notice Skepticsm In Privacy (And Elsewhere)
Requiring notice is an extraordinarily popular way to regulate. In online privacy, for instance, giving notice about their practices is among the only affirmat…
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New Tool Stops Tracking
Lecturer Ryan Calo spoke with Politico Pro about the effect that a "Do-Not-Track" tool will have on consumer privacy. Michelle Quinn filed the followi…
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Wikileaks and Freedom, Autonomy and Sovereignty in the Cloud
I have written an article on the future of sovereignty in the age of Wikileaks. I welcome Your comments. "The hidden power structures and the inner workin…
Privacy and Robots
Ethics@Noon: M. Ryan Calo Hosted by Bown H. McCoy Family Center for Ethics in Society January 21, 2011…
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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…