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EU, U.S. sign data privacy umbrella agreement
"Industry professionals warn of the economic consequences that the lack of certainty involving data sharing agreements could create. International Associat…
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Giving Up on Cybersecurity
UCLA Law Review Discourse, Vol. 64, Forthcoming UCLA School of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 16-29 Abstract: Recent years have witnessed a dramatic incr…
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Will the Constitution Protect Your Next Smartphone?
"But these decisions don’t necessarily mean the debate over the Fifth Amendment and fingerprint readers is all wrapped up, says Al Gidari, a technology law…
A First Amendment For Social Platforms
The great 21st-century platforms — Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Snapchat, and the rest — have this year found themselves in the middle of the speech wars. Twitte…
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Outing is totally still a thing, people
"“The fact is we have made some important progress with regard to the LGBT community; what 50 years ago was a crime is now in some states protected by anti…
The U.S. wants to maintain cross-border data flows. That may be tough.
"Karen Kornbluh, the former U.S. ambassador to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), has a new cyber brief making the case for…
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Facebook, stand up or get out
Media leaders have always stood up for a free press and the First Amendment. Now it's Facebook's turn. My Recode column is here: http://www.recode.net/2…
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May 2016 in Retrospect: Intermediary Liability News and More from the Internet and Jurisdiction Project
May 2016 in Retrospect is available here: http://www.internetjurisdiction.net/observatory/retrospect/2016-may/ Retrospect is a flagship publication of the Int…
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EU’s Online Hate Speech Deal Prompts Fears Of Censorship
"When platforms are made responsible for determining what speech is illegal, those intermediaries tend to over-remove content, out of an abundance of cauti…
It’s important for SF to get body-camera rules for police right
After months of consideration, the San Francisco Police Commission approved rules Wednesday for use of the latest innovation sweeping law enforcement nationwide…
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Ransomware Attacks Are Still On The Rise, Experts Warn
"One problem, says Brian Nussbaum, a former intelligence analyst and an assistant professor of public administration at the State University of New York at…
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Study of 1 million sites shows just how closely we’re watched
"Studying a million websites is hard. To do it, Arvind Narayanan – who heads the Web Transparency and Accountability Project at Princeton University – buil…