The Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School is a leader in the study of the law and policy around the Internet and other emerging technologies.
Jonathan Mayer is a Ph.D. candidate in computer science at Stanford University, where he received his J.D. in 2013. He was named one of the Forbes 30 Under 30 in 2014, for his work on technology security and privacy. Jonathan's research and commentary frequently appears in national publications, and he has contributed to federal and state law enforcement actions. Read more » about Jonathan Mayer
Aleecia M. McDonald's research focuses on the public policy issues of Internet privacy, and includes user expectations for Do Not Track, behavioral economics and mental models of privacy, and the efficacy of industry self regulation. She co-chaired, and remains active in, the WC3’s Tracking Protection Working Group, an ongoing effort to establish international standards for a Do Not Track mechanism that users can enable to request enhanced privacy online. Read more » about Aleecia McDonald
Arvind Narayanan is an Assistant Professor at Princeton's Department of Computer Science and Center for Information Technology Policy and an Affiliate Scholar at the Stanford Law School Center for Internet and Society. He studies information privacy and security, and has a side-interest in tech policy. His research has shown that data anonymization is broken in fundamental ways, for which he jointly received the 2008 Privacy Enhancing Technologies Award. Read more » about Arvind Narayanan
Börge is a senior associate at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP in Hamburg, Germany. His practice covers IP and IT law, outsourcing, e-commerce, licensing, data protection and privacy, as well as complex commercial law matters. He regularly advises in the context of M&A and carve-out transactions across different industry sectors, with a special focus on technology and healthcare transactions. Börge has worked in New York and London, and often help clients around the world with their projects. Read more » about Börge Seeger
September 16, 2013
As part of the Global Data Protection policy workshop at this year’s Privacy Identity Innovation conference, we hosted a session titled “Data Collection and Consent: Next Steps for Digital Advertising” that looked at the status of the do not track debate, what might happen going forward and the impact these efforts may have on consumers and companies. Read more » about Data Collection & Consent: Next Steps for Digital Advertising
February 21, 2013
Have you ever borrowed a smartphone without asking? Modified a URL? Scraped a website? Called an undocumented API? Congratulations: you might have violated federal law! A 1986 statute, the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA), provides both civil and criminal remedies for mere "unauthorized" access to a computer. Read more » about Innovation or Exploitation (Video)
