How Facebook Programmed Our Relatives
Cross-posted from Scientific American. Three years ago, on his birthday, a law professor watched his e-mail inbox fill with Facebook notifications indicating t…
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The Dangers of Tech's Privacy Promises
"“The space for existing without being searchable and findable at all times is shrinking,” Woodrow Hartzog, author of Privacy’s Blueprint: The Battle to Co…
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Lessons From Making Internet Companies Liable For User's Speech: You Get Less Speech, Less Security And Less Innovation
"Stanford's Daphne Keller is one of the world's foremost experts on intermediary liability protections and someone we've mentioned on the websi…
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5 biggest risks of sharing your DNA with consumer genetic-testing companies
""The key thing about your genetic data ... it is uniquely yours. It identifies you, so if you are going to entrust it to a company, you should try to…
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FBI v. Apple -- Round 2 . . .
How important is your iPhone privacy? Does it defeat law enforcement's interest in obtaining evidence of child pornography productions from your iPhone? Acc…
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What AT&T's acquisition of Time Warner means for the future of the internet
"In a phone conversation Thursday, Stanford Law School Center for Internet and Society fellow Ryan Singel further explained the problem. "While zero…
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Internet Platforms: Observations on Speech, Danger, and Money
Public demands for internet platforms to intervene more aggressively in online content are steadily mounting. Calls for companies like YouTube and Facebook to f…
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Un-Sexy Headline: USB Restricted Mode Will Improve iPhone User Security
In the upcoming version of the Apple iPhone iOS operating system, iOS 12, the phone’s Lightning cable port (used for charging and data transmission) will be dis…
Internet Platforms: Observations on Speech, Danger, and Money
Policymakers increasingly ask Internet platforms like Facebook to “take responsibility” for material posted by their users. Mark Zuckerberg and other tech leade…
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Some Google employees are talking about pushing for a brand new kind of workers union
"Peter Asaro, associate professor of media studies at the New School in New York, coauthored a letter that echoed the demands of Google's protesting em…
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The death of America's net neutrality and how it affects you
"Everyone will feel they need to be in the fast lane, but the ones who can afford it are the big media companies, says Ryan Singel. "If a video doesn&…
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The Cybersecurity 202: We surveyed 100 experts. A majority rejected the FBI's push for encryption back doors.
""Third-party tools such as Cellebrite and GrayKey, combined with other sources of data such as cloud backups, metadata, the Internet of Things, and s…