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Welcome to the neighbourhood. Have you read the terms of service?
""The whole point of a smart city is that everything that can be collected will be collected," says Al Gidari, the director of privacy at Stanfor…
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Tool Without a Handle: Privacy and Moral Hazard
Discussions of privacy tend to focus on the value of privacy. This post agrees that privacy has value in practical terms, as an important moral principle, and…
Now we can cheaply sequence DNA, how do we store all that data?
In 2003, the international consortium of scientists working on the Human Genome Project completed the final first draft for the human genome - a DNA blueprint f…
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Big Brother on wheels: Why your car company may know more about you than your spouse.
"The law has been unable to keep up with rapid advancements in auto technology, according to Ryan Calo, an associate professor of law at the University of…
Should posting revenge porn be a federal crime?
Revenge porn is the non-consensual sharing of nude photos or videos. Thirty-eight states and the District of Columbia have revenge porn laws, according to the C…
Website operators are in the dark about privacy violations by third-party scripts
by Steven Englehardt, Gunes Acar, and Arvind Narayanan. Recently we revealed that “session replay” scripts on websites record everything you do, like someone l…
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2 Detroit auto shows: The big truck present and high-tech future
""It breaks down to balancing the need to make money today versus making money tomorrow," said Bryant Walker Smith, an associate professor at the…
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People calling Trump a racist, but will it affect him at the ballot box?
"“The unabashed white nationalism of the president isn’t new, nor is his policy of collective punishment of entire nations of people. What’s new is the gro…
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Uber’s Secret Tool for Keeping the Cops in the Dark
"“Obstruction of justice definitions vary widely by country,” says Ryan Calo, a cyberlaw professor at the University of Washington. “What’s clear is that U…
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Chuck Johnson's Twitter Free Speech Suit Is Probably DOA
""The lawsuit is unlikely to be successful," says Neil Richards, a professor at Washington University Law School, who specializes in First Amendm…
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How to wipe personal data from work laptops and phones
"Not so fast, says Riana Pfefferkorn, a cryptography fellow at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society. Many employees regularly co-mingle their perso…
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Want guns? Drugs? Self-driving cars may become the perfect delivery vehicle
"“Self-driving cars may enable new crimes that we can’t even imagine today,” said Patrick Lin, director of the Ethics + Emerging Sciences Group at Californ…