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Facebook Has Difficult Road to Make Ads Unblockable
"“Facebook engineers could try harder to obfuscate the differences. For example, they could use non-human-readable element IDs to make it harder to figure…
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Donald Trump wants ‘extreme vetting’ to stop terrorists at border
"“The policies and ‘pillars’ that were offered as solutions were often vague, and it is not clear they’d actually solve the serious challenges that exist i…
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Indiana businesses targeted as ransomware viruses spread across U.S.
"Hackers’ favorite targets include health systems and local governments, said Scott Shackelford, a professor of business law and ethics in the Kelley Schoo…
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An Internet Freedom Fighter
"Even the most fervent internet user has to log off sometimes. That’s what Barbara van Schewick had in mind for her family vacation at a farmhouse near Col…
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Navy looking at teaching robots how to behave
"Peter Asaro, vice-chair of the International Committee for Robot Arms Control — which is campaigning for a treaty to ban “killer robots” — questions wheth…
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Bridgewater, N.S. Sexting Case Will Test Canada's New Law
"McGill University education professor Shaheen Shariff studied the "digitally empowered'' generation of kids in a 2013 project that used surve…
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Kämpferin fürs freie Internet
"Auch einer der größten Fans des Internets schaltet gern mal ab. Und eigentlich hatte Barbara van Schewick genau das jetzt vor. Aus dem glutheißen Südweste…
Hanging Internet Users Out to Dry
Over the past few months, a team at Mozilla has been looking closely at the recent remote hacking cases currently winding their way through the courts. Because…
Rio 2016 — A Gold Medal For Cybersecurity?
In many cases athletes train for years, if not decades, to reach the pinnacle of their sports and represent their respective nations in the Olympic Games. Incre…
Bloomberg Law Brief: Twitter Not Liable for ISIS Tweets
Andrea Matwyshyn, a professor at Northeastern University Law School, and David Greene, Civil Liberties director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, discuss T…
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The Marvel Chairman, a Hate-Mail Feud and Claims of Stolen DNA
"Change has come slowly despite warnings in the Boston University Law Review about how employers, a person in a romantic relationship or fans of celebritie…
The Promise And Challenge Of Driverless Cars
The ABA Annual Conference may not have been a lot of fun for, say, an institution on the cusp of a DOE smackdown, but as a member of the press — marked with a b…