Judicial Nominee Howard C. Nielson’s Own Torture Memo
UPDATED 1/4: A number of President Trump’s judicial nominations have collapsed in recent days after the candidates’ utter lack of qualifications was revealed,…
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Ad targeters are pulling data from your browser’s password manager
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Facebook, Twitter and social media’s road to federal regulation
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Facebook Removes Chechen Strongman’s Accounts, Raising Policy Questions
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Web Trackers Lift Email Addresses Via Browser's Autofill Feature
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Report: SAPD’s body cam policy needs to be tweaked
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Here’s how Google is helping, not hurting, democracy
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State Hacking An Option To Overcome Encryption, IGF Hears
"The days of unfettered access to internet content are over, Riana Pfefferkorn of the Stanford Center for Internet and Society told government representati…
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What will happen now that net neutrality is gone? We asked the experts
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In 2017, society started taking AI bias seriously
""2017, perhaps, was a watershed year, and I predict that in the next year or two the issue is only going to continue to increase in importance,"…
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State-led Interference in Encrypted Systems: A Public Debate on Different Policy Approaches
"Ms Riana Pfefferkorn, Fellow at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society in the USA, argued that while governments suggest companies should live up to…
Three Questions on the WannaCry Attribution to North Korea
The Trump Administration this week formally accused the North Korean government of responsibility for the WannaCry ransomware attacks that hobbled hundreds of t…