Rudy Giuliani is Trump’s cybersecurity adviser. He might want a refresher
n 2017, Rudolph W. Giuliani was named as a cybersecurity adviser to President Trump. This was widely seen as a consolation prize. Giuliani had been in charge of…
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Privacy’s Blueprint
Design is one of the most important but overlooked factors that determines people’s privacy. Social media apps, surveillance technologies, and the Internet of T…
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Fixing Facebook? Zuckerberg falls short of his New Year's goal
""They created a platform where sharing was mindlessly easy and interacting with each other required almost no forethought at all," said Woodrow…
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ACLU asks court to release a secret order forcing Facebook to wiretap Messenger
"Jennifer Granick, the ACLU’s surveillance and cybersecurity counsel, said the public “deserves to know why the government thought it could dismantle measu…
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Sending Lewd Nudes to Strangers Could Mean a Year in Jail
"Danielle Citron, a professor of law at the University of Maryland and the author of a book on hate crimes in cyberspace, said that clarification could be…
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The Promise and Peril of Personalization
Authored by Brett Frischmann and Deven Desai Google, Amazon, and many other digital tech companies celebrate their ability to deliver personalized services. Ne…
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The Music Industry Asks US Government to Make 'Unauthorized Streaming' a Felony
"“DNS blocks are easy to circumvent, because site operators can just register a different domain name in the same top level domain or move to a different t…
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New Ways To Prevent Identity Theft During The Holiday Shopping Season
"hat's what Scott Shackelford, an associate professor of business law and ethics in the Indiana University Kelley School of Business, recommends. He re…
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I'm Asking a Federal Court to Unseal Its Secret Docket in a Facebook Messenger Wiretapping Case
Today, I joined the American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of Northern California, and the Electronic Frontier Foundation in moving to unseal a sealed case in…
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Motion to Unseal Court Records Concerning US DOJ Motion to Compel Facebook
Encryption helps human rights workers, activists, journalists, financial institutions, innovative businesses, and governments protect the confidentiality, integ…
Motion to Unseal Court Records Concerning US DOJ Motion to Compel Facebook
Motion to unseal the docket and court's legal reasoning in a sealed case wherein the Department of Justice allegedly sought to compel Facebook to comply wit…
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When the Internet Archive Forgets
"“The fair use defense in this context has never been litigated,” noted Annemarie Bridy, a law professor at the University of Idaho and an Affiliate Schola…