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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…
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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…