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Apple ordered to help FBI bypass iPhone security
As I've said many times over the years, on matters of technology policy and Internet security, sometimes I wonder if the US government ever left the 1990s.…
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Bloomberg Law: Apple Refuses Court Order
Robert Mintz, a partner at McCarter and English, and Andrea Matwyshyn, a law professor at Northeastern University and former FTC senior policy adviser, discuss…
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Scalia's privacy and cyber legacy -- and what's next?
"Scalia's “sentiment of government surveillance did not necessarily extend to private companies,” Omer Tene, vice president of research and education,…
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Apple headed for showdown over San Bernardino shooter’s phone
"The company has a good case, according to Jeffrey Vagle, executive director of the Center for Technology, Innovation and Competition at the University of…
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How Apple Will Fight U.S. Demand for Access to Attacker's iPhone
"Apple, likely to be joined in its resistance by other tech companies, has a good chance of winning in the end, said Jeffrey Vagle, executive director of t…
The Blockchain Gang
itcoin is passé. But if the buzz is to be believed, the “block chain” technology behind bitcoin is going to revolutionize your toaster, thebanking system, and e…
Scalia’s privacy impact will be felt for years to come
One would think privacy was a concept that Justice Antonin Scalia disliked. After all, how could a textualist, who firmly believed in lawyers’ obligation to fol…
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8 Ways To Secure Data During US-EU Privacy Fight
""We haven't seen the solution. We only heard very high-level principles by the European Commission and some data that was added by the Department…
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India Defends Net Neutrality against Facebook’s Free Basics
"What’s interesting in all this is that Barbara van Schewick, director of Stanford Law School’s Center for Internet and Society, whose paper was recently s…
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USC educator: Potential benefits of self-driving cars “tremendous”
"Bryant Walker Smith is an assistant professor of law at the University of South Carolina. The university’s website says he is an internationally recognize…
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MLAT Reform and the 80% Solution - What's Good for Users?
Last week, The Washington Post reported that the US and the UK were in negotiations to permit UK law enforcement agencies to request stored communications like…
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School threats cost educational time, taxpayer money
"Brian Nussbaum, a former intelligence analyst who now is an assistant professor of public administration at University at Albany in New York, said that be…