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By Riana Pfefferkorn on April 26, 2018 at 2:30 pm
Steven Levy, who’s been covering the crypto wars for a quarter-century, has a long article out in Wired about Ray Ozzie’s technical proposal for a key-escrow-based exceptional-access scheme to give law enforcement access to encrypted smartphones.
By Riana Pfefferkorn on April 18, 2018 at 2:42 pm
Before I built a wall I’d ask to know
What I was walling in or walling out,
And to whom I was like to give offense.
Something there is that doesn't love a wall,
That wants it down.
- Robert Frost, "Mending Wall"
By Megan Gray on April 18, 2018 at 1:10 pm
This new white paper, entitled “Understanding and Improving Privacy ‘Audits’ under FTC Orders,” carefully parses the third-party audits that Google and Facebook are required to conduct under their 2012 Federal Trade Commission consent orders. Using only publicly available documents, the article contrasts the FTC’s high expectations for the audits with what the FTC actually received (as released to the public in redacted form).
By Bryant Walker Smith on April 18, 2018 at 12:40 pm
Tesla can do better than its current public response to the recent fatal crash involving one of its vehicles. I would like to see more introspection, credibility, and nuance.
Introspection
By Barbara van Schewick on April 16, 2018 at 11:02 am
The California Senate's Energy and Utilities Committee published its analysis of Senator Scott Wiener's California net neutrality bill on Monday morning. It’s bad. Here’s a short overview of the suggested amendments and a rebuttal of the key arguments related to interconnection and access charges.
By Albert Gidari on April 9, 2018 at 8:00 am
So it seems that the Microsoft Ireland case at the Supreme Court will end with a whimper. Both the Department of Justice and Microsoft agree that the case is moot and should be dismissed due to the passage of the Clarifying Lawful Overseas Use of Data Act or “CLOUD Act.” DoJ told the Court that it has procured a warrant under new section 2713 of the Stored Communications Act.
By Jeffrey Vagle on March 28, 2018 at 7:59 am
The editors of the forthcoming Cambridge Handbook of Surveillance and Race seek additional contributors. This volume will bring together the work of leading scholars in such fields as public health, law, critical race studies, anthropology, criminology, sociology, history, political science, psychology, and philosophy to present an intersectional perspective on the issues of governance, power, and control as applied to racial and other minority populations.
By Bryant Walker Smith on March 27, 2018 at 10:45 am
Following Uber’s fatal crash in Arizona, Governor Doug Ducey is attracting attention for what he did and did not do. This is not surprising; as I noted in 2016, Arizona's governor decided to embrace Uber’s vision, for better or for worse. This discussion, however, tends to elide the important question of his actual legal authority.
By Chuck Cosson on March 22, 2018 at 8:49 pm
In my last post, I wrote of moral hazards created by privacy, using extramarital affairs as just one example (really, any legal or moral wrongdoing facilitated by secrecy illustrates the point). Privacy, as it happens, also encourages use of networked information technologies for confession of moral wrongs and provides incentives for both wrongdoers and victims to find support from others with similar interests and concerns.
By Bryant Walker Smith on March 19, 2018 at 7:14 pm
An automated vehicle in Uber’s fleet fatally struck a woman crossing a street in Arizona. A few points pending more information:
