Social media is having its difficult adolescence. Facebook is approaching its 14th birthday, YouTube is 13, and Twitter is almost 12. In each case, a happy chil…
""The whole point of a smart city is that everything that can be collected will be collected," says Al Gidari, the director of privacy at Stanfor…
Discussions of privacy tend to focus on the value of privacy. This post agrees that privacy has value in practical terms, as an important moral principle, and…
"The law has been unable to keep up with rapid advancements in auto technology, according to Ryan Calo, an associate professor of law at the University of…
Revenge porn is the non-consensual sharing of nude photos or videos. Thirty-eight states and the District of Columbia have revenge porn laws, according to the C…
by Steven Englehardt, Gunes Acar, and Arvind Narayanan. Recently we revealed that “session replay” scripts on websites record everything you do, like someone l…
"“Obstruction of justice definitions vary widely by country,” says Ryan Calo, a cyberlaw professor at the University of Washington. “What’s clear is that U…
""The lawsuit is unlikely to be successful," says Neil Richards, a professor at Washington University Law School, who specializes in First Amendm…
"Not so fast, says Riana Pfefferkorn, a cryptography fellow at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society. Many employees regularly co-mingle their perso…
My article Everything Radiates: Does the Fourth Amendment Regulate Side-Channel Cryptanalysis?, 49 Conn. L. Rev. 1393 (2017), has recently been published by the…
Sharing passwords with a partner can be tricky. NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks with tech experts Nancy Baym and Woodrow Hartzog while Becky McDougal from M…
"One of the most significant challenges in releasing body-camera recordings is balancing privacy with transparency, said Harlan Yu, executive director of U…