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Two Senators Call for Investigation of Smart TV Industry
"“In terms of practical things the F.T.C. could do, one is filing additional enforcement actions, which, in addition to curtailing individual companies’ pr…
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El Chapo's Lawyers want to Suppress Evidence from Spyware Used to Catch Cheating Spouses
"Riana Pfefferkorn, a cryptography fellow at the Stanford Law School’s Center for Internet and Society, said FlexiSPY is “kind of an app version of a wire.…
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Uber axes 100 ‘operator’ positions in self-driving cars
"Bryant Walker Smith, assistant professor at the University of South Carolina’s law school, who writes regularly about autonomous driving, said Uber’s trai…
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The Cybersecurity 202: Privacy advocates blast Kavanaugh for government surveillance support
"Kavanaugh could be a “potential vote for retrenchment on privacy and the Fourth Amendment,” said Albert Gidari, director of privacy at the Stanford Center…
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Criminal case sheds light on Apple self-driving car technology
"The technical detail in the complaint "would only have been possible if Apple complied" with investigators, said Bryant Walker Smith, an assista…
Digital Switzerlands
Abstract U.S. technology companies are increasingly standing as competing power centers that challenge the primacy of governments. This power brings with it th…
Cyberspectives: Kristen Eichensehr On Extraterritorial Issues Of Domestic And International Law
In this episode, Kristen Eichensehr discusses the challenge of extraterritoriality in cyber, the concept of "digital Switzerlands," companies acting i…
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Why California’s new consumer privacy law won’t be GDPR 2.0
"“For the major online platforms, I think this law will have very little impact,” said Jonathan Mayer, assistant professor of computer science and public a…
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Amazon Is Used to Promote White Supremacist Merchandise and Views, Report Says
"But the debate has ramped up in recent years with an emboldening of white supremacist and anti-Semitic groups and pressure from countries in Europe to get…
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The Cybersecurity 202: Spyware theft case offers a cautionary tale for encryption debate
"“There's nothing preventing an Apple employee from doing the exact same thing in a world where there's mandatory key escrow for exceptional access…
Thanks to Amazon, the government will soon be able to track your face
Amazon, the company synonymous with online shopping, is supplying facial recognition technology to government and law enforcement agencies over its web services…
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Outsmarted by a Smart TV? Not This Reporter.
"The experience illustrated how difficult it is to discover how companies may be tracking people on their televisions, which many advertisers see as the fi…