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Google Case Asks: Can Europe Export Privacy Rules World-Wide?
"It will set governments’ expectations about how they can use their leverage over internet platforms to effectively enforce their own laws globally,” said…
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ISPs Engage In Last Gasp Bid to Derail California’s Net Neutrality Law
"“Governor Brown has a long history of vetoing legislation that you might think he'd totally support, including bills that exercise state power as a wa…
Platform Justice: Content Moderation at an Inflection Point
On Thursday, Sept. 6, Twitter permanently banned the right-wing provocateur Alex Jones and his conspiracy theorist website Infowars from its platform. This was…
Security Risks of Government Hacking
Abstract: As the use of encryption and other privacy-enhancing technologies has increased, government officials in the United States have sought ways to ensure…
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The Cybersecurity 202: Five Eyes demand for encryption workarounds raises stakes for tech companies
"“I certainly see this banding together as a way for the U.S. government to try to exert more gravitas in the U.S. debate,” said Riana Pfefferkorn, cryptog…
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Why won't Facebook give UK police user passwords? It's complicated
"And it is this that so frustrates law enforcement officials. "If the UK has complaints, it is with the US Department of Justice for failing to adequa…
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Google is a no-show at DC tech hearings, stoking anger in Congress
""I think they both risk becoming a punching bag by Congress and losing control of the narrative," said Jen King, director of Consumer Privacy at…
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CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD .PDF The role of dominant content platforms like Facebook and Twitter in facilitating Russian election interference in the 2016 US presi…
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New Whitepaper: Security Risks of Government Hacking
Today, CIS is publishing a whitepaper called “Security Risks of Government Hacking.” Also called “equipment interference” or “lawful hacking,” government hackin…
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Stanford Law School Appoints Judge Stephen Smith as Director of Fourth Amendment & Open Courts at the Center for Internet and Society
Stanford Law School today announced the appointment of retired Federal Judge Stephen Wm. Smith as Director, Fourth Amendment & Open Courts at the Center for…
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Please stop sending sensitive messages via Slack
"“It just shows how much education users need to do when they switch around between half a dozen apps, trying to figure out how each one works,” says Riana…
There’s an old conservative playbook behind Donald Trump’s threat to regulate Google
Nicole Hemmer is an assistant professor in presidential studies at the University of Virginia. Her book, Messengers of the Right: Conservative Media and the Tra…