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Farm Bill’s Database on Food Stamp Recipients Stirs Privacy Fear
"Danielle Citron, a professor of law at the University of Maryland who has written on privacy issues, is also skeptical of the database, saying “there’s no…
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The Cybersecurity 202: Security community has its own encryption debate after discovery of new flaw
"Whether people decide to keep PGP or make the switch, the flaw shows how difficult it is to perfect the art of sending secure messages, said Riana Pfeffer…
Petitioners' Notice of Motion and Motion for Leave to File Motion for Reconsideration
Included in this PDF are: * Petitioners' Notice of Motion and Motion for Leave to file Motion for Reconsideration * Exhibit A Petitioners' [Proposed]…
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Deprogramming Students and Teachers
Co-authored with Evan Selinger. For years, debates have raged about whether to ban or invite various technologies into our schools. Most prominent and still on…
Trump’s U-turn on Chinese mega-firm ZTE damages U.S. power and credibility
The Trump administration made two very different policy statements on sanctions Sunday. President Trump said in a tweet that an earlier decision to impose massi…
The Intellectual Dark Web, Explained: What Jordan Peterson Has In Common w/ The Alt-Right w/ Henry Farrell
Henry Farrell (@henryfarrell), professor of political science and international affairs at George Washington University, joins us to discuss his latest piece fo…
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Google Employees Resign in Protest Against Pentagon Contract
"More than 90 academics in artificial intelligence, ethics, and computer science released an open letter today that calls on Google to end its work on Proj…
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How Cyber Technology Can Improve Society
Cryptography Fellow Riana Pfefferkorn's work is mentioned in the Activity Report of the Stanford Cyber Initiative titled, "How Cyber Technology Can Imp…
Only giant internet firms may be able to comply with one-size-fits-all rules
If you paid attention to Mark Zuckerberg’s testimony before Congress last month, you might have gotten the impression that the internet consists entirely of tit…
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How do you define “safe driving” in terms a machine can understand?
"Bryant Walker Smith, a law professor at the University of South Carolina who studies driverless-car regulations, similarly welcomes the proposals from Mob…
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Service Meant to Monitor Inmates’ Calls Could Track You, Too
"As long as they are following their own privacy policies, carriers “are largely free to do what they want with the information they obtain, including loca…
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Cal Poly hosts forum to address racism on campus amid another blackface incident
"Another panelist, philosophy professor Patrick Lin, said that expelling a student for non-criminal hate speech isn't really an option for a public uni…