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Facebook and Senate Panel Scuffle Over Russia Investigation
"“Congress has subpoena power, of course,” says Al Gidari, the director of privacy at Stanford Law School’s Center for Internet and Society, who previously…
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Libya’s Haftar and Liability of Superiors: Ordering Offenses v. Responsibility for Omissions
Further to Just Security‘s coverage on Tuesday of the potential war crimes liability of U.S citizen/Libyan warlord General Khalifa Haftar, this article discusse…
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Black LGBT Women Represent on The Root’s 100 Most Influential People List
Malkia Cyril, Executive Director of the Center for Media Justice Malkia Cyril is a writer, organizer, and media strategist. She’s a Black Lives Matter activist…
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The Sex Trafficking Fight Could Take Down a Bedrock Tech Law
"Danielle Citron, a law professor at the University of Maryland who serves on Twitter’s Trust and Safety Council and worked with Harris on her Backpage eff…
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SESTA: An Unnecessary Step in the Wrong Direction
Most observers cheered when the neo-Nazi Daily Stormer was booted from YouTube, CloudFlare, and other platforms around the Internet. At the same time, the site’…
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Grab your popcorn: The first annual Privacy Shield review is go
"Omer Tene, vice-president of research and education at the International Association of Privacy Professionals, agreed the review needs to look at how Priv…
Congress's sloppy new internet bill is a step in the wrong direction
Most observers cheered when the neo-Nazi Daily Stormer was booted from YouTube, CloudFlare, and other platforms around the Internet. At the same time, the site’…
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Facebook Knows More About Russia’s Election Meddling. Shouldn’t We?
"Ryan Calo, a law professor at the University of Washington, told me that the electronic communications privacy law did not extend protections to advertise…
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AI can make justice truly blind — but not just yet
"Civil liberty groups have warned against the inherent dangers of prejudiced AI in the legal system before. Law enforcement agencies now use tools to predi…
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Fake news busters
"As an outside technology adviser to Hillary Clinton’s failed 2016 U.S. presidential campaign, Scott has first-hand knowledge of how digital falsehoods can…
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Should Facebook Ads Be Regulated Like TV Commercials?
"But Andrew McLaughlin, the cofounder of Higher Ground Labs, a company that invests in technology to help progressive candidates, believes that platforms s…
Why You Should Be Suspicious of That Study Claiming A.I. Can Detect a Person’s Sexual Orientation
Recently, the A.I. community was left largely stunned when a study released by two Stanford researchers claimed that artificial intelligence could essentially d…