Ransomware attack is why we can't have security backdoors, say privacy advocates
"What happened this week won’t be lost on judges in the future should the government again try to get tech companies to build backdoor access into programs…
"What happened this week won’t be lost on judges in the future should the government again try to get tech companies to build backdoor access into programs…
"“For a country that purports to be guided by democracy and guided by civil rights, this is a very dangerous and very slippery slope,” said Malkia Cyril, t…
New Yorker writer Jeffrey Toobin describes the Federalist Society as an enormously influential network of conservative lawyers. Its executive vice president, Le…
"Meanwhile, threats of similar – or perhaps worse – attacks have continued to surface. “This was not the big one. This was a precursor of a far worse attac…
Attorney General Jeff Sessions wants to reverse the policies of the Obama administration, by prosecuting more cases involving guns and drugs, and seeking more m…
The U.S. census has recently been the subject of political argument. After contentious discussions before a congressional panel, John Thompson, the director of…
"Arvind Narayanan, assistant professor in computer science at Princeton said, “We have a situation where these artificial intelligence systems may be perpe…
Computers around the world are suffering an attack from malicious software. The compromised computers have been hit by “ransomware” — software that encrypts the…
"Matwyshyn believes there needs to be space for innovation, but if not everyone has the same access to technology, it raises a lot of questions. “That’s a…
"According to Daphne Keller, a lawyer at the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford University, the Austrian ruling may be "dangerous and short-s…
"It is inevitable Amazon and others would add a visual component to smart speakers to better monetize them, said Albert Gidari, director for privacy at Sta…
"“Expanding the Periphery and Threatening the Core: The Ascendant Libertarian Speech Tradition” is the title of a forthcoming article in the Stanford Law R…