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Fake news captures attention and is corrosive. Like many similar social problems online, it is a symptom of surveillance capitalism. Surveillance capitalism exp…
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The Texting Suicide Case Is About Crime, Not Tech
"And yet, according to Danielle Citron, author of the book Hate Crimes in Cyberspace, there are 21 crimes that have to do explicitly with speech—things lik…
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Inside the ACLU’s nationwide campaign to curb police surveillance
"When you pass a law, you create legality where there wasn’t,” says Malkia Cyril of the Center for Media Justice, a Bay Area nonprofit. “We create the lega…
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Trump’s FCC Refused to Fight For Lower Prison Phone Rates. Now, Inmates Will Pay.
""This court decision is a disaster for families of incarcerated people, a large percentage of whom are low-income and people of color," Malkia C…
Making Google the Censor
Prime Minister Theresa May’s political fortunes may be waning in Britain, but her push to make internet companies police their users’ speech is alive and well.…
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Autonomous cars (no human backup) may hit the road next year
"Bryant Walker Smith, a law professor at the University of South Carolina who tracks self-driving cars, said the Delphi-Transdev project would be among the…
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Inside the military tactics used during Standing Rock
"But the information provided by TigerSwan could have helped police forces overcome that prohibition. Elizabeth Joh, a private security legal scholar at th…
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Are Geek Squad agents spying for the FBI?
"Finding child porn is one thing; courts have typically deferred to law enforcement on such matters, said Scott Shackelford, an associate professor of busi…
A tiny party of hardliners holds the balance of power in Britain. Here’s what you need to know
After last week’s shocking results, Britain’s Conservative Party had to make a deal with Northern Ireland’s Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) to return to governm…
Don’t believe what Putin is saying about ‘patriotic’ Russian hackers
The last two days have seen two major developments regarding Russian hacking. First, Russian President Vladimir Putin tacitly admitted that Russian hackers migh…
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Wannacry, London and Apple: Bush-Era Officials Debate Encryption
"Crump also made that point. “The problem with that is that you cannot build a back door that works only for the U.S. government, good guys, or other peopl…
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Privacy vs. Security: Experts Debate Merits of Each in Tech-Rich World
"On the other side of the argument, Catherine Crump, acting director of Samuelson Law for the Berkeley School of Law, focused her argument on the dangers o…