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'Anonymous' WikiLeaks Backers Targeted In U.S. Probe
Lecturer M. Ryan Calo speaks with Business Week's Michael Riley about the idea of using hacking as a form of civil disobedience: Evidence collected by the…
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Most Facebook, Google Users Worry About Privacy And Security
Lecturer M. Ryan Calo is quoted by The Last Watchdog's Byron Acohido in the following article on privacy concerns over Facebook and Google: Most Americans…
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Bullish Outlook for the Privacy Profession
Ernst & Young released its annual privacy report this week predicting that “Organizations are expected to invest more money to protect personal information…
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Facebook Profile Betrays Yentl's Cousin's "Jewish Credentials"
Sounds like a strange heading, I know. Well – here’s the strange story to go along with it: Israeli daily Haaretz reports on its front page today that Israel de…
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(Updated) Golan v. Holder Heads To Supreme Court
UPDATE: Briefing for the cert. stage is now complete. You can read the government's opposition to our cert. petition here, and our reply in support of our c…
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Yes - We are "adequate"!
High achievers such as Stanford law students and global privacy leaders don't usually revel in being called "adequate". But the European Commissio…
Data Privacy
CIS Speaker Series - Data Privacy - 1/24/2011 Does the Fourth Amendment protect the privacy of your webmail? Does the government have to get a search warrant b…
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Privacy & Innovation: A Data Privacy Day Reflection
The intuition that privacy and innovation are somehow opposed is surprisingly common. It is true that overzealous or reactionary appeals to privacy can cut of…
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Hello, Big Brother: Digital Sensors Are Watching Us
Lecturer Ryan Calo is quoted by USA Today in the following story on the prevalence of digital sensors and concerns over possible increases in their usage: Odds…
Susan Freiwald and Kevin Bankston - CIS Speaker Series 2011
Kevin Bankston, senior staff attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, will discuss recent cases he has litigated involving the Electronic Communications…
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Do Not Track Is No Threat to Ad-Supported Businesses
"If you remove tracking, you remove advertisers." "Stop [data] sharing and you put a stop to the Internet as we know it." "Thousands of…
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Data Protection Commissioner to go after Google Analytics
The tension between Google and data protection agencies intensified over the last two days. The Data Protection Commissioner in Hamburg is apparently unhappy wi…