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The Dark Side of the “Apple vs. FBI” OIG Report
Before I built a wall I’d ask to know What I was walling in or walling out, And to whom I was like to give offense. Something there is that doesn't love a w…
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Understanding & Improving Privacy "Audits" under FTC Orders
This new white paper, entitled “Understanding and Improving Privacy ‘Audits’ under FTC Orders,” carefully parses the third-party audits that Google and Facebook…
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Tesla's Fatal Crash
Tesla can do better than its current public response to the recent fatal crash involving one of its vehicles. I would like to see more introspection, credibilit…
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Bad news for AT&T and Comcast: Calif. Senate panel OKs net neutrality bill
"Wiener's legislation is "the only state-level bill that fully restores all of the 2015 net neutrality protections," Stanford law professor B…
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Tesla Keeps Using Disputed Crash Stat to Defend Autopilot
"“If Tesla’s going to keep asserting that, and particularly if they’re going to keep crediting NHTSA for it, then I think they need to provide the necessar…
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All-woman tech panel warns of inadequate online legal protections
"Jennifer Granick, surveillance and cybersecurity counsel at the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), noted that “increasingly, modern surveillance is ma…
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How Government Pressure Has Turned Transparency Reports From Free Speech Celebrations To Censorship Celebrations
"Indeed, as Europe is pushing for more and more use of platforms to censor, it's important that someone gets them to understand how these plans almost…
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Net neutrality rules move past first hurdle in California
"Stanford Law School professor Barbara van Schewick countered that stance, saying internet providers could simply pay for the infrastructure themselves. Me…
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Google Responds to Troubling Report of Apps Tracking Kids
"Scott Shackelford, associate professor of Business Law and Ethics at Indiana University's Kelley School of Business, and Cybersecurity Program Chair,…
Techdirt Podcast Episode 163: Teaching The Law Via Podcasts
Law isn't simple, and truly learning about it takes more than a few short primers or even an in-depth guide or two — which makes it the perfect topic to exp…
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California Senate Committee Recommends Cutting Key Net Neutrality Protections
The California Senate's Energy and Utilities Committee published its analysis of Senator Scott Wiener's California net neutrality bill on Monday morning…
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California Democrats Want to Weaken Bill That Would Protect Net Neutrality
"“[The committee’s analysis] recommends removing the bill's protections against using interconnection practices to circumvent the bill's net neutra…