Stanford University pushed back Wednesday in a...
Stanford University pushed back Wednesday in a blog post against reports it had decided to stop using Google funding for privacy research at the Center for Internet and Society (CIS) (http://stanford.io/Y47dBR). ProPublica said Tuesday that a document filed in a…
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Stanford legal proceeding (http://bit.ly/1rngkJU) contained this sentence: “Since 2013, Google funding is specifically designated not be used for CIS’s privacy work.” In the blog post, CIS Director-Civil Liberties Jennifer Granick said the sentence meant CIS had other funding sources for its privacy work that year, and its decision not to use Google’s funding on privacy was not a comment on Google. “Funding sources impose no restrictions on CIS researchers. Period,” Granick said. “All donors to the Center -- and to Stanford more generally -- agree to give their funds as unrestricted gifts, for which there is no contractual agreement and no promised products, results, or deliverables.” Stanford could in the future designate Google money for privacy research, she said. In 2012, Jonathan Mayer, a Ph.D. candidate at CIS, found Google was circumventing the Apple Safari browser’s cookie blocking feature, which led to a $22.5 million settlement with the FTC (http://1.usa.gov/19VRGcD).