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The Supreme Court Is Stubbornly Analog — By Design
"It’s this kind of lag that worries Ryan Calo, a law professor at the University of Washington. In the Carpenter case, the justices are responding to a pre…
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California’s State Senate Is About to Vote on SB 822 — the Strongest State Net Neutrality Law Yet
"The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has called SB 822 the ‘gold standard’ of net neutrality bills. That’s because it’s specifically crafted to chall…
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How hackers can exploit devices used at home
"“The more we delegate, the more there is opportunity for hackers that make it a valuable target,” said Jennifer King, director of consumer privacy at Stan…
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Ransomware attacks such as at South Bend's Allied Physicians are becoming common
"“It would be hard to prove that records haven’t been made,” said Scott Shackelford, a cybersecurity expert and associate professor of business law and eth…
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GDPR Rules as a US Response to Cambridge Analytica?
Europe's new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) goes into force today, after two years of preparation. Anxiety and fallout from the law are running h…
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What Is GDPR and What Can America Learn From it?
"“The GDPR does not provide meaningful procedural barriers to over-removal,” Daphne Keller at Stanford Law School's Center for Internet and Society rec…
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Most U.S. Adults in Poll Unwilling to Share Personal Data for Ads to Keep a Service Free
"As Jennifer King, director of consumer privacy at Stanford University’s Center for Internet and Society, points out, timing is everything. She said it is…
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Amazon Echo sent family's private conversation to another user
"Ryan Calo, a law professor who co-directs the University of Washington's tech policy lab, said while there are upsides to these technologies, there ar…
The exit polls say Ireland has voted to legalize abortion with a smashing majority
An Irish Times exit poll says Ireland has voted to repeal the constitutional provision banning abortion with a crushing majority. The poll says that 68 percent…
Here’s how Europe’s data privacy law could take down Facebook
On Friday, the European Union’s GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) privacy regulation goes into effect. Many articles have been written complaining that…
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GDPR Oddsmakers: Who, Where, When Will Enforcement Hit First?
"There are probably as many answers to those question as there are supervisory authorities (SAs), and there are many, notes Omer Tene, vice president and c…
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Amazon blames creepy Alexa incident on ‘unlikely’ string of events
"Ryan Calo, a law professor who co-directs the University of Washington’s tech policy lab, agreed that the sort of glitch Amazon described is unlikely. But…