Techdirt Podcast Episode 144: The Perils Of Internet Platform Regulation
We've been talking about internet platform regulation for a long time, but in the past year these issues have gotten a huge amount of increased focus — for…
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Should police get to view bodycam footage immediately?
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Texas killings may aid Rosenstein’s crusade on encryption
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Congress’s end run around a pillar of online free speech
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As mass data collection becomes the norm, concerns about surveillance are growing
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How to Make Cars Cooperate
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Another mass shooting, another locked phone
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With Amazon Key’s launch, customers and lawyers have lots of questions
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Sizing up people and process: a conceptual lens for thinking about cybersecurity in large and small enterprises
This paper proposes a conceptual lens for analysing organisational cybersecurity challenges in light of ‘firm size’. There is extensive literature in the fields…
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It’s Getting Harder for Tech Companies To Deny Responsibility for Content
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