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Stanford Law's Ryan Calo On Privacy
Lecturer Ryan Calo was the feature guest on an episode of the show (R)evolution that focused on privacy settings in online social networks. The broadcast segmen…
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Amazon Stops Hosting WikiLeaks Website
Lecturer Ryan Calo discusses the ramifications, or lack there of, facing Amazon.com following their decision to stop hosting the WikiLeaks' website: Amazon…
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Stanford Students Create 'Do Not Track' Software
Fellow Ryan Calo discusses the potential future of a new "do not track" software, which was created by a pair of Stanford researchers: As a governmen…
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Could A Do Not Track List Become A Reality?
Student fellow Jonathan Mayer is the featured guest on a Martketplace radio broadcast covering the Do Not Track List option now available to web users. Here is…
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Wikileaks: Lessons For Consumer Privacy
The website Wikileaks recently published hundreds of thousands of confidential State Department cables. These communications apparently reveal the details of c…
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Browser Snobbery As Objective Privacy Harm (UPDATE)
UPDATE: As told to Jules Polonetsky over at The Future of Privacy Forum, Capital One was engaging in "totally random" rate changes that were not relat…
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Clementi And The Nature Of Privacy Harm
Ann Bartow once criticized Daniel Solove for not providing enough “dead bodies” in his discussion of privacy. I tend to disagree that such proof is necessary.…
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Data Protection and Free Speech in Germany
[I am happy to have Thorsten Feldmann as a guest blogger here. Thorsten is a well-known expert on German data protection law and a blogger in his own right.]…
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Could Europe’s Tough Privacy Protection Proposals Influence Washington, D.C.?
Ryan Calo, director of the Consumer Privacy Project at the Center for Internet and Society, is mentioned in a Forbes article on online privacy harm: “Online pr…
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Online Classifieds: Who Is Responsible?
Senior research fellow Ryan Calo talks to American Public Media's Marketplace about the Communications Decency Act and website liability when it comes to us…
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Craigslist Action On Adult Ads Is One Right Step Down A Long Road
Professor Ryan Calo, a research fellow at Stanford’s Center for Internet and Society, is quoted on the efforts of 20 attorneys general to prevent the posting of…
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(Im)Perfect Enforcement
Prohibition wasn’t working. President Hoover assembled the Wickersham Commission to investigate why. The Commission concluded that despite an historic enforce…