Alissa Cooper

Note: This was originally posted on the Center for Democracy & Technology blog. In advance of Facebook’s annual developer conference next month, reports have begun to materialize about a seminal new feature that the social networking service may roll out: location sharing. Although there’s no official word from the company yet, the speculation is that [...]

There has been some debate about just how “deep” the inspection of packets needs to be for the inspection to qualify as DPI. The strictest conception of “deep” draws a line between IP addresses and all other data in the packet, claiming that the use of any data other than the destination IP address constitutes [...]

Note: This blog post was originally published on the Center for Democracy & Technology blog. Two weeks ago, upwards of 1100 dedicated souls gathered in Hiroshima, Japan for the 76th meeting of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). Although I’ve been regularly attending these meetings for some time now, whenever this group gathers I’m always surprised [...]

Note: This blog post was originally published on the Center for Democracy & Technology blog. Last week I had the pleasure of attending the 75th meeting of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), one of the leading international technical standards bodies for the Internet. For many years, CDT has sought to engage in technical standards [...]

Note: This was originally posted on the Center for Democracy & Technology blog. Given how much advertising we all see, especially online, you know it means something when the entire advertising industry gets together to make an announcement. Today, the advertising industry, as represented by a cohort of trade associations, joined together to publish their [...]

Note: This was originally posted on the Center for Democracy & Technology blog. A couple of weeks ago I wrote about one of the upgrades in the iPhone 3.0 software update that allows the Safari browser on iPhone to be location-enabled. Firefox had previously implented something similar in a beta version of the browser, and [...]

Note: This post originally appeared on the Center for Democracy & Technology blog. There's been a lot of buzz over the last few days about the new iPhone 3.0 software that was released this week. You might have seen reviews of a new service offered as part of the update called Find my iPhone, which [...]

Note: This was originally posted on the Center for Democracy & Technology blog. There’s a lot of talk in the online privacy world about first parties and third parties. Generally speaking, when you surf to abc.com, that site is considered to be a first party during the time that you’re on the site. If abc.com [...]

Note: This was originally posted on the Center for Democracy & Technology blog. The online advertising industry took a collective deep breath Thursday as the Federal Trade Commission issued its much-anticipated report outlining self-regulatory guidelines for the online behavioral advertising. Although behavioral ad networks already follow their own voluntary guidelines in the Network Advertising Initiative [...]