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In William Gibson's latest novel, "The Peripheral," he imagines a future in which people have the ability to effortlessly encrypt spoken conversations in real time, in ways that are unbreakable to the artificial intelligences deployed by governments to eavesdrop on everyone. Read more about Opinion: Why we all have a stake in encryption policy
The United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture, Juan E. Méndez, has issued a new expert’s report (his 17th)—this one on extraterritoriality. (JustSecurity’s extensive coverage of the extraterritoriality of states’ human rights obligations can be found here). Read more about The Special Rapporteur on Torture’s Report on Extraterritoriality Speaks to Migrant Crisis
The European Court of Justice, Europe’s highest court, has just shot down the Safe Harbor, an arrangement between the European Union and the United States allowing for the transfer of personal data, in a case against Facebook. This has the potential to transform arguments between the E.U. and United States over privacy and surveillance. The decision is complex, and lawyers will be arguing over its more subtle implications for years. Read more about Here’s how the Facebook case has just transformed the surveillance debate
The European Court of Justice, Europe’s highest court, has just ruled that the Safe Harbor, an arrangement between the European Union and the United States allowing for the transfer of personal data, is legally invalid. Few non-specialists have heard of the Safe Harbor. Even so, this ruling is going to send shock waves through both Europe and the United States. Here’s how it happened (we talk about the implications in a separate post). Read more about This privacy activist has just won an enormous victory against U.S. surveillance. Here’s how.
Amidst all the coverage of California’s new assisted suicide law, it may have been missed that Governor of California Jerry Brown signed important human rights legislation into law over the weekend. Read more about New California Human Rights Legislation
Last week, the United States and China came to an agreement on cyberspying. What are its consequences likely to be?
The agreement addresses a big U.S. concern. Read more about What you need to know about the cyberspying deal with China
AUTHOR: DANIEL J. SOLOVE AND WOODROW HARTZOG Read more about Don’t Kill the Password. Change the Password
The Advocate-General of the European Court of Justice, the European Union’s closest equivalent to the U.S. Supreme Court, has just made a key finding in a court case involving Facebook. If the court follows his recommendation – which it does 80 percent of the time – either the U.S. will have to change its laws on surveillance or companies like Facebook and Google will find their European business models undermined.
This time, it’s not Facebook’s fault Read more about Facebook is at the center of a huge privacy controversy. For once, it isn’t Facebook’s fault.
Lauren Rivera is an associate professor of management and organizations at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of management. Her recent book, “Pedigree: How Elite Students Get Elite Jobs,” examines how inequality is produced by subtle social patterns of education and informal skills as well as big political and economic forces. I asked her four questions about the book. Read more about Why are working class kids less likely to get elite jobs? They study too hard at college.
