Predicting Corporate Intelligence Agencites in the 1960s
The recent tumult around the emergence of a dossier suggesting salacious things about President Donald Trump has cast light on a series of for-profit intelligen…
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Living in a modern surveillance state
Jennifer Granick, director of civil liberties at Stanford Law School’s Center for Internet and Society, talks to the FT's Hannah Kuchler about government su…
Living in a modern surveillance state
Jennifer Granick, director of civil liberties at Stanford Law School’s Center for Internet and Society, talks to the FT's Hannah Kuchler about government su…
Living in a modern surveillance state
Jennifer Granick, director of civil liberties at Stanford Law School’s Center for Internet and Society, talks to the FT's Hannah Kuchler about government su…
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Beware – your anonymous web history can be linked to you via Facebook, Twitter and Reddit
""Users may assume they are anonymous when they are browsing a news or a health website, but our work adds to the list of ways in which tracking compa…
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Microsoft Asserts Clients’ Rights in FBI E-Mail Searches Fight
"“Standing has been a barrier in cases that seek to vindicate people’s privacy rights,” said Jennifer Granick, a Stanford Law School professor. “It’s a ser…
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Houston Police Choose Surveillance Over Presence at Super Bowl
"Margaret Hu is an associate professor of law at the Washington and Lee University School of Law who has studied the surveillance techniques used by IBM at…
Overcoming ‘cyber-fatigue’ requires users to step up for security
As a new presidential administration takes over, it will need to pay significant attention to cybersecurity. Indeed, we’ve already been told to expect “a compre…
This is how Donald Trump engineers applause
When Donald Trump visited the CIA over the weekend to make a speech, many commentators noted that his audience clapped and cheered enthusiastically. Now, accord…
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Your 'anonmyized' web browsing history may not be anonymous
""It is already known that some companies, such as Google and Facebook, track users online and know their identities," said Arvind Narayanan, an…
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For the sake of national security, Donald Trump needs to trade in his cellphone
"If Trump or his aides insist on carrying commercial-grade phones, they should never be taken into high-level meetings, since there are known exploits that…
How journalists can protect themselves while covering protests
Protesters call attention to economic, environmental, racial, gender-based and other forms of injustice. For journalists covering political movements, reporting…