Amazon Go: No checkouts, but you are being watched
Nobody likes to wait in line. So today, Amazon removed that unpleasantness from the neighborhood grocery store. At Amazon Go, you walk in, pick up your grocerie…
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Should posting revenge porn be a federal crime?
Revenge porn is the non-consensual sharing of nude photos or videos. Thirty-eight states and the District of Columbia have revenge porn laws, according to the C…
The Call-In: Sharing Your Passwords With Your Partner
Sharing passwords with a partner can be tricky. NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks with tech experts Nancy Baym and Woodrow Hartzog while Becky McDougal from M…
How a Quaker’s suit against the Secretary of Defense still impacts cases over government surveillance
You have reason to believe you’re being monitored by the government, that they are following you and cataloging everywhere you go and everyone you talk to. The…
As DOJ calls for “responsible encryption,” expert asks “responsible to whom?”
"While the battle against encryption has been going on within federal law enforcement circles (dubbed "going dark") since at least the early 1990…
The Looming Battle in the Crypto Wars
This week on Law.com’s Unprecedented podcast we talk with Riana Pfefferkorn, a fellow at the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School focusing on…
Techdirt Podcast Episode 144: The Perils Of Internet Platform Regulation
We've been talking about internet platform regulation for a long time, but in the past year these issues have gotten a huge amount of increased focus — for…
Podcast: Access Denied
Journalists are supposed to serve as “watchdogs” on the government. But how do they get access to the information they need to do that? In this episode, we talk…
Trump Twitter Lawsuit Raises First Amendment Issues For Politics On Social Media
President Trump has blocked Twitter followers on his personal feed--raising questions, and a lawsuit, about first amendment rights on social media. An expert o…
The American debate on surveillance and cryptography
Lecture held during the First International Congress of Fundamental Rights and Criminal Procedure in the Digital Age, organized by InternetLab in partnership wi…
Instagram made a Snapchat knockoff. Can they even do that?
""Ideas, before you actually put them to work, are very vulnerable to stealing," said University of California, Hastings law professor Ben Depoor…
American Spies
If you attended a recent march to protest, wrote a check to the ACLU, or recently visited a politically leaning website, consider yourself an activist, says Sta…