Amazon Go: No checkouts, but you are being watched
Nobody likes to wait in line. So today, Amazon removed that unpleasantness from the neighborhood grocery store. At Amazon Go, you walk in, pick up your grocerie…
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Inside Amazon Go: The camera-filled convenience store that watches you back
"“It’s not just the transaction,” said Danielle Citron, a law professor and privacy expert at the University of Maryland’s law school. “Powerful companies…
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Court Says Tracking Web Histories Can Violate Wiretap Act
"“This is a pretty big deal for law enforcement,” says Jonathan Mayer, a Stanford fellow in computer science and law whose research into Google’s circumven…
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Tracking the trackers: Investigators reveal pervasive profiling of web users
""What's unfortunate is the huge gap of information - understanding what's happening on the Web and what users know about tracking," said…
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Verizon, AT&T tracking their users with ‘supercookies’
"One security researcher, Stanford’s Jonathan Mayer, said, “I don’t know any computer scientist who takes that ‘It’s anonymous’ argument seriously. It’s be…
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Getting to know you
"“The idea of personally identifiable information not being identifiable is completely laughable in computer-science circles,” says Jonathan Mayer, a Stanf…
Where all those digital cookies came from
Listen to the full interview at Marketplace Tech. "It was about consumer convenience," says Ryan Calo, a professor of internet and privacy law at the…
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US appeals court weighs GPS tracking, warrants
""These are the types of decisions that should be made by judges," lawyer Catherine Crump argued Wednesday for the American Civil Liberties Union…
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Connecting the Dots Between Cookies and Identities
"Assuming an adversary, whether a criminal or intelligence agency, has a presence on the network, the working premise here is that the first- and third-par…
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Ad tracking: Is anything being done?
""We don't need to tell the Web server nearly so much as we do right now," says Jonathan Mayer, a Stanford University grad student and former…
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Who’s tracking your porn?
"I asked Mayer if he believed there was reason to worry that one’s porn-browsing history could be sold — say, to a potential employer — or made public. “I’…
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Appellate court: Nope, feds can’t just GPS track your car without a warrant
""It's awesome," Jennifer Granick, the director of civil liberties at Stanford Law School, told Ars. "On whether the Fourth Amendment ap…