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Crowdsourced Lit Review: First Amendment Theory & Technology
Updated May 11, 2017. Keep your recommendations coming and I'll update periodically. Nailing down the definitive literature on First Amendment expressive f…
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Jio wants Net Neutrality exceptions for Specialised and Managed services, Payments
"Our Take: This goes against the TRAI’s own approach to Net Neutrality regulation. In its ruling on differential pricing, the TRAI had noted: “Intuitively…
“Golden Shield” Oral Arguments Today: Doe v. Cisco
A panel of the Ninth Circuit of Appeals in San Francisco (composed of Judges Stephen Reinhardt, Wallace Tashima, and Marsha Berzon) will hear oral arguments tod…
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The man behind the neo-Nazi Daily Stormer website is being sued by one of his ‘troll storm’ targets
"“I think it’s an incredibly important lawsuit,” said Danielle Citron, a law professor at the University of Maryland who specializes in online privacy. Dig…
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Facebook’s biggest challenge: actual reality
"“Social media companies need to think very carefully about what next steps they’re going to take,” said Malkia Cyril, executive director for the Center fo…
The three ‘B's’ of cybersecurity for small businesses
Large-scale cyberattacks with eye-watering statistics, like the breach of a billion Yahoo accounts in 2016, grab most of the headlines. But what often gets lost…
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A Murder Posted on Facebook Prompts Outrage and Questions Over Responsibility
"“Any of these platforms — especially live ones — encourages users to perform,” said Elizabeth Joh, a law professor at the University of California, Davis.…
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Civil Rights Lawyers Plan to Challenge New York’s Body-Camera Program
"Harlan Yu, a principal at Upturn, a consulting firm that evaluates police body-camera policies on a range of measures, agreed. “Being the largest departm…
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Facebook wanted ‘visceral’ live video. It’s getting live-streaming killers and suicides.
"“It's amazing how performative people are in their cruelty,” said Danielle Citron, a University of Maryland law professor who has worked with Facebook…
Hackers have just dumped a treasure trove of NSA data. Here’s what it means.
A group of hackers called the Shadow Brokers has just released a new dump of data from the National Security Agency. This is plausibly the most extensive and im…
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Artificial Intelligence based systems can gain human biases
"These biases range from the morally neutral to the objectionable views – preference for birds over animals to views on race and gender. “We have a situati…
The future of ad blocking
There’s an ongoing arms race between ad blockers and websites — more and more sites either try to sneak their ads through or force users to disable ad blockers.…