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Women in IT Security: Eight Women to Watch
"Jennifer Stisa Granick is an attorney, educator and the director of civil liberties for the Center for Internet and Society (CIS) at Stanford Law School.…
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Trump’s plan to work with Putin on cybersecurity makes no sense. Here’s why.
President Trump announced Sunday on Twitter that he and Russian President Vladimir Putin were talking about forming an “impenetrable Cyber Security unit” to pre…
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Sorry, But You Need to Care About Blac Chyna and Rob Kardashian
"Yet, those fighting to criminalize nonconsensual porn at an national level worry about the detrimental effects of a Kardashian revenge porn battle. "…
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LinkedIn, HiQ spat presents big questions for freedom, innovation
"“It seems like the crux of the dispute is a business decision on LinkedIn’s part about building out their analytics functionality, and they view HiQ as a…
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Justice Eludes 298 Killed in the Shoot-Down of Malaysia Air Flight 17
"“They’ve got to keep the public pressure on because that is what finally made the Lockerbie case move forward—this glaring impunity,” said Beth Van Schaac…
Court Orders Prolific Patent Troll Shipping & Transit LLC To Pay Defendant’s Legal Bill
Shipping & Transit LLC, formerly known as Arrivalstar, is one of the most prolific patent trolls ever. It has filed more than 500 lawsuits alleging patent i…
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Trolling victim takes neo-Nazi website to court
"US laws around hate on the internet date back to the earliest chat rooms and bulletin boards. By the '90s, they'd begun to address electronic hara…
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51 Times That the Aggregator Distractify Says Its Copyright Was Violated
"Daniel Nazer, a staff attorney for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, said facts and story concepts generally can’t be copyrighted. Short phrases like he…
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Sex robots on way for elderly and lonely...but pleasure-bots have a dark side, warn experts
"Philosophy Professor and robot ethicist Patrick Lin of California Polytechnic said: “Treating paedophiles with robot sex-children is both a dubious and re…
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Chicago Schools to Students: Submit to Our Choices for Your Futures or No Diploma
Hey, Chicago parents: Are you ready for a bunch of government officials to decide whether your teen has appropriate post-high-school plans?If you're not, to…
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Flying Cars: Separating Hype From Real Potential
"“There’s been discussion of VTOL systems which in many ways are simply helicopters, and as Uber describes it in the initial deployments there will be a pi…
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With a single wiretap order, US authorities listened in on 3.3 million phone calls
"Albert Gidari, a former privacy lawyer who now serves as director of privacy at Stanford Law School's Center for Internet and Society, criticized the…