Center for Internet and Society

RSVP is required for this free event.  Show me the data! Until the 21st century, just about all of our activities were private by default, public through effort; today anything that touches digital space has the potential (and likelihood) to remain somewhere online forever. That means all of the technologies that have made our lives easier, […]

RSVP is required for this free event.  When you give sites and services information about yourself, where does it go? Who else will get hold of it, and what will they use it for? The recent revelations about Cambridge Analytica's acquisition of data about tens of millions of Facebook users without their knowledge or consent have […]

RSVP is required for this free event.  The Center for Internet and Society (CIS) is a public interest technology law and policy program at Stanford Law School and a part of Law, Science and Technology Program at Stanford Law School. CIS brings together scholars, academics, legislators, students, programmers, security researchers, and scientists to study the interaction […]

RSVP is required for this free event. Interested in working in public interest technology law and policy? Want to find out what you can do now to build a career in this growing area? Join the Stanford Center for Internet and Society and the Levin Center to discuss the broad range of available options and […]

RSVP is required for this free event.  The Case Manager of the European Commission’s antitrust cases against Google (Google Shopping and Google Android) will outline the main findings of the two prohibition Decisions that the Commission has adopted. At a time when there is a keen debate about the role and relevance of antitrust in hi-tech […]

RSVP is required for this free event.  EU institutions and member States have recently proposed, and in some cases adopted, several legislative texts which directly affect the legal status of responsibilities and liability of online platforms. Such legislation covers a wide range of topics, including privacy, national security, audiovisual media services, and copyright, and raises relevant issues […]

RSVP is required for this free event. Join CIS for the first of our series of winter quarter lunchtime career talks. In a time of disinformation campaigns, hate speech, and adult content controversies, content moderation is a thorny issue for online platforms. How do the teams within such companies build the expertise to handle these […]

RSVP is required for this free event.  What's it like to help the legislative sausage get made? Join CIS to learn about pursuing a career in public policy from DC veteran India McKinney. India is a legislative analyst at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, where she fights for consumer privacy and robust surveillance oversight using skills […]

RSVP is required for this free event.  Matt Cagle is a Technology and Civil Liberties Attorney at the ACLU of Northern California, where he focuses on privacy, free speech, and government surveillance. At the ACLU, Matt promotes privacy and free speech best business practices, conducts public records investigations, litigates in state and federal courts, and works […]

RSVP is required for this free event. Join Sue Glueck, Stanford alum and currently Microsoft’s Senior Director of Academic Relations, for a discussion about her journey from being a corporate lawyer to becoming privacy counsel for a myriad of Microsoft products and services for over a decade.

RSVP is required for this free event. How do in-house counsel successfully advise their clients and manage risk when innovation develops faster than the law? Join CIS for our final lunchtime career speaker series event with Milana Homsi McCullagh. Milana is a Director of Legal at Google, where she started out over 11 years ago […]

RSVP is required for this free event.  The Antitrust Paradigm is about why and how to strengthen antitrust. It shows how Chicago-school inspired reforms to antitrust law beginning four decades ago combined with the growth of information technology combined to bring substantial and widening market power today. Jonathan Baker identifies ways antitrust law and enforcement should […]

This event has been canceled.  This talk will explore ‘permission’ in the IoT from three perspectives. Firstly, that active consent and permission is further breaking down, leading to a challenges to ‘boundary management.’ Second is a review of the technologies of ‘permissioning’ - frameworks and protocols from the identity management domain that enable users to […]

RSVP is required for this free event.  Courts' sealing practices have had an adverse impact on public health. Last year, in-depth investigative journalism by Reuters generated the first-ever national data set showing the prevalence of court secrecy across the country. The Reuters series revealed how the sealing of court records contributed to the opioid crisis and […]

RSVP is required for this free event.  What is the most secret docket in America? (Hint: it's not the FISA Court.) Have your cell phone records and email accounts been searched by law enforcement, and how would you know if they did? Why does the FBI take the position that your cellphone is not a tracking device, even […]

RSVP is required for this free event. Join FTC Commissioner Noah Joshua Phillips, SLS ’05, for remarks concerning the convergence of antitrust and privacy law. He will discuss the history of privacy and antitrust law enforcement by the FTC, recent policy developments in the U.S. and E.U., and his view on the role of privacy in […]

RSVP is required for this free event.  Encryption is vital to protecting our privacy, data security, economy, and national security. Our smartphones, website visits, and many of our interpersonal communications are now protected by encryption by default, ensuring that would-be bad actors cannot snoop on us. At the same time, criminals take advantage of encryption to […]

RSVP is required for this free event.  The CLOUD Act allows the US to obtain data stored anywhere in the world by a US provider. It also allows other countries to enter into an agreement with the US so US providers can respond directly to law enforcement in those countries. The UK is the first […]

RSVP is required for this free event.  As our lives become ever more dependent on digital services, we are increasingly asked to consent to the collection and use of data about us. But do we understand what this means and does it occur in a way that protects our best interests? There is broad agreement […]

RSVP is required and open to the public for this virtual event.  In the digital age, social media and mobile devices enable crimes to be documented and viewed as they happen or shortly thereafter. This technology creates jurisdictional and authenticity challenges but also opportunities for individuals who are not even physically present to become aware of […]