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See Otter
As if we privacy advocates didn't have enough to worry about, this sea otter apparently got a hold of a video camera and was "filming" tourists. W…
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Symposium: Neuroscience And The Courts
The Stanford Technology Law Review’s symposium is scheduled for February 27th, 2009. According to its website, the symposium will “showcase vibrant legal schola…
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Taking Offense: De Facto Censorship in the Digital Age
Last week, FOX News icon Bill O’Reilly made a series of insulting and demeaning remarks on-air about highly-esteemed female journalist, Helen Thomas. In today’…
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Arizona District Court Rules Website Targeting Plaintiff Does Not Create Jurisdiction in Plaintiff’s Home State
Author: Allison Pedrazzi Helfrich In January 2008, Jan Kruska filed defamation, cyberstalking, and other claims against Perverted Justice Foundation, Inc. (an…
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Doe Plaintiffs: A Case Study in On Line Reputation & Privacy
I recently gave a talk at Berkeley School of Law to a privacy class regarding a recent case I filed involving a Doe Plaintiff who faces a serious on-line reputa…
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Beautiful Alarmism
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Privacy Policy Workshop: PowerPoint & Audio
As part of Data Privacy Day 2009, the Center for Internet and Society hosted a Privacy Policy Workshop, sponsored by Covington & Burling LLP. I've attac…
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Database Of Privacy Enhancing Technologies
Please visit the Center for Internet and Society's new wiki (cyberlaw.stanford.edu/wiki) and contribute to our privacy enhancing technology (PET) database.…
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Ghostery.com: Not Just A Cool Icon
David Cancel just created a wonderful privacy enhancing technology for Firefox---up there with Ad Blocker Plus in my view. In a simple and straightforward way,…
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German Court Orders to Block wikipedia.de Due to Offending Article
Here’s another bizarre Internet case that makes you wonder…. Typing now into your favorite Internet browser the address www.wikipedia.de (the German Wikipedia)…
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Navigenics And 23andMe Commit To Fight Unreasonable Subpoenas
I learned something very interesting in preparing for last evening’s panel (PDF) on consumer genomics we recently co-sponsored with the Center for Law and the B…
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Supreme Court of Virginia Invalidates Virginia’s Anti-Spam Statute As Overbroad
Author: Jenny Kim Jaynes was convicted in 2004 of sending large volumes of spam from his Raleigh computer to AOL addresses on the company’s Virginia-based serv…