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CRYPTO 2018: “Middle Ground” Proposals for a Going-Dark Fix
On August 19, the CRYPTO 2018 conference on cryptographic research hosted a one-day workshop in Santa Barbara called “Encryption and Surveillance.” The goal of…
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Schools are using AI to track what students write on their computers
"“There should be a whole gradation of how this [software] should work,” Daphne Keller, the director of the Stanford Center for Internet and Society (and m…
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Cybersex toy industry heats up as infamous “teledildonics” patent climaxes
"Meanwhile, Daniel Nazer, an attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, also applauded the occasion. "It's a classic example of how an ove…
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What Your Car Knows About You
"“That’s not going to give consumers a full sense of how their data is being used and collected any more than it is online,” said Ryan Calo, a law professo…
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Exclusive: U.S. government seeks Facebook help to wiretap Messenger - sources
"However, in cases of chat, gaming, or other internet services that are not tightly integrated with existing phone infrastructure, such as Google Hangouts,…
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Teledildonics Startups Are Pumped This Cockblocking Patent Is Dead
"EFF senior staff attorney Daniel Nazer tells me in an email that “it’s a good thing this patent is expiring” and noted that the owner of the patent had fi…
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The Cybersecurity 202: This new FBI cyber official could be a moderating voice in encryption debate
"“She wouldn't outright say, ‘Yes, I want a backdoor,’ yet she voiced support for the idea of providers keeping the keys to decrypt data,” Riana Pfeffe…
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Video Shows Hotel Security at DEF CON Joking About Posting Photos of Guests' Belongings to Snapchat
"Riana Pfefferkorn, cryptography fellow at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society and a DEF CON attendee, had a similar take on the policy. "Th…
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Facebook, Apple, Google and Twitter veto the paranoid extreme right. Is it good news?
(Google Translated) "For attorney Ryan E. Long, who specializes in intellectual property cases on the Internet, platforms such as Facebook can not justify…
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Can We Count on Facebook and Google to Police the ‘Modern-Day Town Square’?
"These companies “fulfill a roll that approximates a public square,” Geoffrey King, professor of media studies at UC Berkeley, told TheWrap. “It’s a really…
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Omarosa's White House Recordings Are Raising Security Concerns — Experts Break It Down
"Richard Forno, Assistant Director of the UMBC Center for Cybersecurity and Director of the Cybersecurity Graduate Program at UMBC, however, sees it as evi…
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Google tracks your movements, like it or not
"Storing location data in violation of a user's preferences is wrong, said Jonathan Mayer, a Princeton computer scientist and former chief technologist…