There Is No Such Thing as “Public” Data
Are you an OkCupid user? Would you consider the data on your profile public—fair game for anyone to download and share with the rest of the world? That’s the a…
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Paying without passwords and PINs
Back in 2000, ING Direct Canada – the digital bank that became Tangerine Bank – piloted a “biometric” mouse that would scan users’ fingerprints to help bypass t…
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Your call and text records are far more revealing than you think
""The study has important implications for surveillance law and policy," says Arvind Narayanan, a computer scientist and data privacy expert at P…
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Meet ‘Ross,’ the newly hired legal robot
"A future where ROSS, or similar robot lawyers, is used across the country might not be too far away, according to Ryan Calo, a law professor and writer wh…
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“Tool Without a Handle: “Tools for Terror, Tools for Peace,” part II
This blog continues the analysis of how to respond to terrorist activity (including recruitment and planning of attacks) using network information technology, i…
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Reviewing The Trade Secret Short Film "The Company Man: Protecting America's Secrets" (FBI 2015)
2.5 out of 4 stars The FBI produced a short film in July 2015 about a Chinese-backed attempted trade secret theft prosecution that actually occurred. Somehow I…
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Attorneys Joust Over Copyright Law's Legacy
"Attorney Andrew Bridges with Fenwick & West said adjudication is the only fair way to handle accusations that can lead to being kicked off the Interne…
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The Feds Are Arming Themselves to Drive Drones Out of Airports
"All of which begs the question, is this that big a deal? “We need to figure out what kind of danger drones actually prose,” says Ryan Calo, who specialize…
How SecureDrop helps CPJ protect journalists
CPJ is proud to announce our instance of SecureDrop, the anonymous submission system engineered to resist even nation-state surveillance. In a time of unprecede…
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America is 'dropping cyberbombs' -- but how do they work?
This article was originally published on The Conversation under a CC Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-ND 4.0) license. Read the original arti…
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How Should ‘Sextortion’ Be Punished?
"“Law is our teacher. It educates us,” said Danielle Citron, a law professor at the University of Maryland and the author of Hate Crimes in Cyberspace. “It…
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Google: Payday Loans Are Too Harmful to Advertise
"Ryan Calo, a law professor at the University of Washington, thinks that though this isn’t the first effort Google has made to curb what it deems dangerous…