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Court says patent troll didn’t invent podcasting
"“We’re pleased that the Federal Circuit agreed that the podcasting patent is invalid,” said Daniel Nazer, a staff attorney at the EFF and the Mark Cuban C…
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How U.S. government statistics work, explained by the country’s Chief Statistician
Nancy Potok is the chief statistician of the United States. I interviewed her last month about her role, and the challenges faced by the U.S. national statistic…
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How Google Glass EE Evades Privacy Questions that Doomed the Original
"For Woodrow Hartzog, a digital privacy expert and professor of law and computer science at Northeastern University, the answer to that question is mixed.…
Steve Ballmer has a big idea: to be a partisan for the facts
Steve Ballmer is the former chief executive of Microsoft, and the current owner of the Los Angeles Clippers. This is the second part of an interview with him ab…
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Who Is Marcus Hutchins?: Security Researcher Community Worried?
"Dr. Richard Forno, director of Graduate Cybersecurity Program at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, offered a similar response, telling IBT bon…
Steve Ballmer believes that facts about government spending can anchor public debate. Here’s how.
Steve Ballmer is the former CEO of Microsoft and the current owner of the Los Angeles Clippers. He is also the creator of USAFacts, a website dedicated to orga…
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New VPN Ban in Russia Latest Step in Increasing Cyber Risk for US Companies
"Moreover, Scott Shackelford, cybersecurity program chair at Indiana University, said the case in part “illustrates the difficulty of shutting down botnets…
Podcast: Access Denied
Journalists are supposed to serve as “watchdogs” on the government. But how do they get access to the information they need to do that? In this episode, we talk…
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Senate Crackdown on Online Sex Trafficking Hits Opposition
"For Danielle Citron, a law professor at the University of Maryland, the bill’s language — in particular phrases like “assist, support or facilitate sex tr…
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Cybersecurity for the travelling scientist
"It can be tempting to try to hide information or use technological tricks such as 'duress passwords' that, if used instead of the genuine one, unl…
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Google's US Challenge to the Canadian Global Delisting Order
In its Equustek ruling in June, the Canadian Supreme Court held that Google must delete search results for users everywhere in the world, based on Canadian law.…
Representative Ted Lieu in Defense of Global Justice
As mentioned last week by Jane Stromseth in her terrific post “Why the U.S. needs the Office of Global Criminal Justice Led by a Senate-Confirmed Ambassador-at-…