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CPJ alarmed by WhatsApp block in Brazil
""Journalists in Brazil regularly rely on WhatsApp for their reporting," said CPJ Technology Program Coordinator Geoffrey King. "Blocking ac…
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Woman ordered to provide her fingerprint to unlock seized iPhone
"Riana Pfefferkorn, a cryptography fellow at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society, said that she's not sure there would be a good legal defense…
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After Two Abandoned iPhone Cases, FBI’s Next Encryption Battle Unclear
"Riana Pfefferkorn, the cryptography fellow at Stanford’s Center for Internet and Society, believes the Justice Department will continue to pursue a multi-…
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Who's Responsible When a Self-Driving Car Crashes?
"Features such as Pilot Assist exist in what tech policy expert and University of South Carolina assistant professor Bryant Walker Smith calls the “mushy m…
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The government wants your fingerprint to unlock your phone. Should that be allowed?
"But Albert Gidari, the director of privacy at Stanford Law School's Center for Internet and Society, said the action might not violate the 5th Amendme…
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New Rules Mean It's Payback Time in Patent Cases
""There's no doubt that Octane Fitness has made a difference. It's increased the risk of bringing really frivolous litigation," Nazer sai…
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Why the names of six people who complained of sexual assault were published online by Dallas police
"Balancing the desire for greater transparency and the need to protect the privacy of victims can be a difficult issue for the authorities. And some police…
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Getty Images Takes Google Grievances to EU
"The type of claim Getty is making "failed in the United States in Perfect 10 v. Google," noted Ben Depoorter, Sunderland Chair at UC Hastings Co…
Encryption vs. the FBI
What's the latest in the FBI's ongoing dispute with Apple over encrypted iPhones? What's at stake and what could happen next? Guest Speaker, Riana P…
Bloomberg Law: Seattle Trash Search Unconstitutional
Elizabeth Joh, a professor at the U-C Davis school of Law, and Don Aplin, a managing editor from Bloomberg BNA, discuss the constitutionality of increasing gove…
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Apple eyes voice-unlock for iPhones
""There are few security measures I can think of that aren't an additional step," said Bryant Walker Smith, an affiliate scholar at Stanford…
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Driverless cars could save lives, kill businesses
""A greater share of crashes could be attributed to a product defect," Bryant Walker Smith, assistant law professor at the University of South Ca…