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Facebook Dating Looks a Whole Lot Like Hinge
"Daniel Nazer, a staff attorney on the Electronic Frontier Foundation's intellectual property team, thinks Tinder's case faces many of the same pit…
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Judge to Consider This Week Whether to Unseal Vast Surveillance Records
"The Apple-FBI fight over encryption was a rare event. Most of the time, the public never has a clue when authorities come knocking and ask a company for “…
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Terrorists still have rail in their target sights
"“While al Qaeda and ISIS and their compatriots have staged high profile attacks and plots targeting aviation in the U.S, their high profile attacks targe…
Gina Haspel’s Nomination to Head the CIA: Why the Controversy & What is at Stake?
The Senate has recently confirmed Mike Pompeo to be Secretary of State, after Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) dropped his objections and several Democrats indicated th…
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Taking Information Down from Source Websites Under Data Protection Law
Should Canada adopt its own version of the “right to be forgotten”? The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (OPC) recently said that such a right actua…
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A Right to Be Forgotten in Canada?
Should Canada adopt its own version of the “right to be forgotten”? The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (OPC) recently concluded, in a Draft Positi…
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How to Handle Speech Online: Q&A with Prof. Annemarie Bridy
"According to Annemarie Bridy, Professor of Law at the University of Idaho and Affiliate Scholar at Stanford Law School Center for Internet and Society, th…
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SEC sounds cyber 'wake-up call' to public companies
"Riana Pfefferkorn, cryptography fellow at Stanford Law School's Center for Internet and Society, said the enforcement action could "light a fire&…
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How the Supreme Court Could Rewrite the Rules for DNA Searches
"Like fingerprints in an earlier age, finding a DNA match is now considered the gold standard for criminal prosecutions in America. But the Golden State Ki…
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Driverless cars are growing in number, but makers don't want to reveal how they sometimes fail
"The lack of transparency about the workings of sensors, logic processors, mapping systems and other driverless technology, like the debate over robot-car…
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How the internet tricks you out of privacy using 'dark patterns' of design
"Deceptive design nudges, tricks and goads you into sharing more than you might intend to online, Professor Hartzog argues in his new book, Privacy's B…
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Cops take dead man’s smartphone to his corpse in attempt to unlock it
"Another attorney, Riana Pfefferkorn, a cryptography fellow at Stanford Law School, underscored the fact that not only was going to a dead person’s fingerp…