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Deprogramming Students and Teachers
Co-authored with Evan Selinger. For years, debates have raged about whether to ban or invite various technologies into our schools. Most prominent and still on…
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How Cyber Technology Can Improve Society
Cryptography Fellow Riana Pfefferkorn's work is mentioned in the Activity Report of the Stanford Cyber Initiative titled, "How Cyber Technology Can Imp…
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Service Meant to Monitor Inmates’ Calls Could Track You, Too
"As long as they are following their own privacy policies, carriers “are largely free to do what they want with the information they obtain, including loca…
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Stanford Law School Appoints Jennifer King as Director of Consumer Privacy, Center for Internet and Society
Stanford Law School today announced the appointment of Dr. Jennifer King as Director of Consumer Privacy at the Center for Internet and Society (CIS). Dr. King…
We Don’t Need a National Data Center of the Poor
In data privacy, as in so many other matters, past is prologue. Fifty years ago, there were calls for a “National Data Center” amassing all personal data collec…
Hard Questions: Why Does Facebook Enable End-to-End Encryption?
End-to-end encryption is a powerful tool for security and safety. It lets patients talk to their doctors in complete confidence. It helps journalists communicat…
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Drowning in privacy-related email updates? Tips on what to look for
"“If you walked up to the average person on the street in the U.S. and ask them about GDPR, they’d probably say, ‘Is that a hockey team?’ ” said Albert Gid…
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Judge to Consider This Week Whether to Unseal Vast Surveillance Records
"The Apple-FBI fight over encryption was a rare event. Most of the time, the public never has a clue when authorities come knocking and ask a company for “…
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Taking Information Down from Source Websites Under Data Protection Law
Should Canada adopt its own version of the “right to be forgotten”? The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (OPC) recently said that such a right actua…
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A Right to Be Forgotten in Canada?
Should Canada adopt its own version of the “right to be forgotten”? The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (OPC) recently concluded, in a Draft Positi…
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SEC sounds cyber 'wake-up call' to public companies
"Riana Pfefferkorn, cryptography fellow at Stanford Law School's Center for Internet and Society, said the enforcement action could "light a fire&…
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How the Supreme Court Could Rewrite the Rules for DNA Searches
"Like fingerprints in an earlier age, finding a DNA match is now considered the gold standard for criminal prosecutions in America. But the Golden State Ki…