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Congress Contemplates Protecting Travelers
As Jennifer Granick noted noted in April, the Ninth Circuit has held that government agents need not have reasonable suspicion in order to search laptops or oth…
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EFF Sues NSA, Bush, And Others Over Illegal Surveillance
Worth it just for the graphic. "The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) filed a lawsuit against the National Security Agency (NSA) and other government a…
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Dog Bites Man - Software Edition
Last year, I complained about the Cablevision case (see Href=http://www.cioinsight.com/c/a/Past-Opinions/IP-Law-Versus-Moores-Law/>”IP Law vs Moore’s Law”),…
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Microsoft Takes InPrivate Public
Microsoft has recently blogged the details of its “InPrivate” browsing and blocking feature for IE8. InPrivate is a bona fide privacy-enhancing technology; Mic…
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Stanford's Center For Internet And Society Seeks Leave To File Amicus Curiae Brief in Bunnell v. MPAA
On Thursday, July 31, 2008, the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School sought leave to file a "friend of the court" brief before the U…
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Gmailosaurus
It’s official: Wired Magazine has placed worrying about privacy on Gmail in the final column marked “expired.” (What’s “wired”? Worrying about privacy on Goog…
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Google Adds Privacy Link, Videos
I notice that Google now has a privacy policy link on its homepage. Congratulations to Marc and others who pushed for this. It's tempting to view this move…
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Hi Rubber. Have You Met My Friend, The Road?
Threadbare as it already is, the privacy rubber may not even be meeting the road. A recent study conducted by the Ponemon Institute implies a disconnect betwee…
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City of (Big) Brotherly Love
I imagine the subset of individuals that read the Center's blogs but not, for instance, Boing Boing to be in the (low) single digits. I still could not res…
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Oh (Big) Brother
Author and fellow SLS fellow Laura K. Donohue brought this deliciously ironic picture to my attention. Click here for a close up. If you happen to be in the D…
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Coming Soon: Smell, Touch, And Dead People
In arguing for the ongoing constitutionality of the commercial/noncommercial distinction in billboard regulation in the wake of City of Cincinnati v. Discovery…
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Ruiz v. Gap, Inc.
Was March National Privacy Month and no one told me? (October is National Cyber Security Awareness Month, so don't try to hack anything.) In addition to a…