Closing the Loop: Sabrina De Sousa Pardoned for Role in CIA Torture and Rendition
"Just a quick note to close the loop on the Sabrina De Sousa case, which I discussed in greater detail here. On the day before she was to be extradited to…
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Ukraine Update: the ICJ Proceedings & Options for Justice in the United States
With the Congressional hearings on Russia dominating the news, this post provides an update on proceedings before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in th…
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From Tuesday on, passengers traveling to the U.S. from 10 airports in eight Muslim-majority countries will not be allowed to have iPads, laptops or any communic…
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The world's leading privacy pros talk GDPR with El Reg
"The dominating feature of coverage of GDPR has been its provisions for sanctions – allowing the data police to issue fines of up to 4 per cent of global t…
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Update Three: Landmark EU-US data privacy court case commences in the High Court
"Over the course of Monday 20 February 2017 and part of Wednesday 22 February 2017, the DPC’s first witness, Professor Neil Richards provided the Court wit…
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Uber president quits over 'beliefs' and 'leadership,' highlighting toxic company culture
""This news certainly contributes to a narrative about Uber that will make hiring top engineering talent more difficult," said Bryant Walker Smit…
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Silicon Valley likes to "move fast and break things." What happens when it makes cars?
"“It's so easy to immediately focus on self-driving cars as the new and the scary and forget that every day 100 people die on the road,” Smith said. He…
How companies can stay ahead of the cybersecurity curve
If you’re like me, on a given day you interact with a whole range of connected technologies for work and play. Just today, I used Box to share and download file…
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A cop fires. A teen dies. Yet six police body cameras somehow miss what happens.
"“Just because a police department uses body cameras doesn’t mean they’ll be accountable and transparent,” said Harlan Yu of the technology policy research…
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Seizure-inducing tweet leads to a new kind of prosecution
"“What is new, because of the technology, is the ease with which certain individuals can be targeted across state lines by remotely distant perpetrators,”…
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The $4 trillion question
"“Privacy preferences vary among individuals, over time, and between stated belief and actual practice,” Bryant Walker Smith, assistant professor of law at…
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Factory worker killed by rogue robot, says widowed husband in lawsuit
"“It’s the fear of robots,” Bryant Walker Smith, a fellow at the Center for internet and Society at Stanford Law School who studies driverless cars, said.…