Information Law, Policy and Digital Privacy
Smart grid technology offers major improvements and efficiencies for our power system, creating a dynamically responsive grid that can do things like manage peak load energy consumption, optimize transmission routes,…
From Ars Technica: "Once upon a time, users who were careless about security posed a risk only to themselves. But, with the advent of pervasive networking and botnets, that's no…
Interesting post on TechCrunch about a new product enabling tracking of Gmail readership (think AOL, circa 1998). According to the article, EmailOracle "inserts an image into each email you send.…
Dan Solove has a characteristically thoughtful piece on the intersection of current events and privacy philosophy. In particular, he claims that we aren't doing enough to educate young people about…
So, unless I'm misunderstanding this whole groups thing on Facebook, it seems that you can now (1) create a group and (2) "force join" people. There seems to be a…
Title: U.S. Tries to Make It Easier to Wiretap the Internet Author: CHARLIE SAVAGE Source: New York Times Published: September 27, 2010 Topic: Officials are preparing to seek sweeping new…
The always-fascinating Samy Kamkar has produced a super-tenacious cookie designed to "identify a client even after they've removed standard cookies, Flash cookies (Local Shared Objects or LSOs), and others." Indeed:…
http://mrl.nyu.edu/~dhowe/trackmenot/
Cookie Guide from Pace University
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/19/one-on-one-christopher-poole-founder-of-4chan/