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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…
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Banking on Our Privacy
Privacy is something we lose actively, not passively. Listen to the verbs of our digital lives: * We browse the web and Google. * We tweet and Twitter. * W…
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Craigslist Adult Ads Under Fire
Ryan Calo, a senior research fellow at the Center for Internet & Society, talks to Michael Krasny of KQED Forum about the legality of Craigslist's adult…
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Q&A: How Do You Define ‘Privacy Harm’? « Go back Publication Date:
Ryan Calo, a senior research fellow at the Center for Internet & Society, is interviewed by Jennifer Valentino-DeVries of the Wall Street Journal Digits Blo…
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The Imponderable Privacy Problem, Again
Emotions ran high at this week’s Privacy Identity and Innovation conference in Seattle. They usually do when the topic of privacy and technology is raised, an…