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…
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Privacy Advocates Annoyed By Media Distorting Their Privacy Advocacy
M. Ryan Calo, director of the Consumer Privacy Project, is mentioned in the following article clarifying some of his earlier comments on the effects of Wikileak…
Ryan Calo - Hearsay Culture Show #129 - KZSU-FM
A talk show on KZSU-FM, Stanford, 90.1 FM, hosted by Center for Internet & Society Resident Fellow David S. Levine. The show includes guests and focuses on…
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The Problems Of Web Surveillance: Some Context For My Quote In The New York Times
UPDATE: The New York Times published most of the rest of my comments on Bits Blog. Thanks! I was quoted in a cover story in today's New York Times as sayi…
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New Law Confronts Cyberbullying
Lecturer Ryan Calo is mentioned in the following article about a new California Senate bill addressing cyberbullying via social networking websites. The Stanfor…
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Wikileaks As Security Breach
Affiliate scholar Marvin Ammori offers eight good reasons why the United States should not prosecute Wikileaks founder Julian Assange. I mostly agree with Ammo…
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Do Not Track isn't just about Behavioral Advertising
A frequent misconception of Do Not Track is that the goal is to prevent tracking by online advertisers. In fact, tracking is a much broader problem on the web,…