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Erasing All Digital Footprints 'Impossible'
Ryan Calo, a residential fellow at Stanford Law's Center for Internet and Society, is quoted in the San Francisco Chronicle on the difficulties of erasing o…
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How Facebook Has Changed Our Idea Of 'Too Much Information'
Ryan Calo, a residential fellow at the Center for Internet & Society, is quoted on how Facebook has changed the nature of privacy on the Internet. Scott Duk…
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Computers Freedom Privacy... And Robotics
ACM Computers Freedom Privacy is in its 20th year. This year was exciting to me in that robots entered the mix. My panel on the topic featured forecaster and…
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Facebook's Security Screening
UPDATE: Facebook explains the security procedure here. Apparently they only use photos if you have not set up another verification means. Also, I have confirmat…
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The Criminalization of E-Personation
I was interviewed yesterday for the local Fox affiliate on Cal. SB 1411, which criminalizes online impersonations (or “e-personation”) under certain circumstanc…
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"Legally Defensible" Security and the (Surprisingly Lacking) Right to Privacy
I participated last week in a Techdirt webinar titled, “What IT needs to know about Law.” (You can read Dennis Yang’s summary here, or follow his link to wat…
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Privacy Worries Inspire A New Wave Of Startups
Ryan Calo, a residential fellow at the Center for Internet & Society, is quoted on reactions to Facebook's privacy policies in this article on investmen…
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Facebook Privacy Woes Make Little Impact On Site’s Popularity
Ryan Calo, a residential fellow at the Center for Internet & Society, is quoted on changes to Facebook's privacy policies. Brian Womack of Bloomberg rep…
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Facebook Unveils New, Simpler Privacy Settings
Ryan Calo, a residential fellow at the Center for Internet & Society, talks to David Louie of KGO News about recent changes to Facebook's privacy settin…
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Free Speech vs. Hate Speech On Facebook
Ryan Calo, a residential fellow at the Center for Internet & Society, is quoted in this article on Facebook's monitoring of potentially offensive conten…
The Case for Online Obscurity
On the Internet, obscure information has a minimal risk of being discovered or understood by unintended recipients. Empirical research demonstrates that Interne…
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ECPA and the Law of Disruption
I write in “The Laws of Disruption” of the risk of unintended consequences that regulators run in legislating emerging technologies. Because the pace of change…