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Federal judge shines a spotlight on the “going dark” debate
Last Friday, a New York federal judge joined in the contentious current debate over whether tech companies should be forced to provide law enforcement the abili…
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New EU Law Will Tell U.S. What Can Be Said — And Built — On the Internet
Americans have long been ignoring European data protection law, but it has not been ignoring us. Last year’s so-called “right to be forgotten” case from the EU’…
Opinion: Why we all have a stake in encryption policy
In William Gibson's latest novel, "The Peripheral," he imagines a future in which people have the ability to effortlessly encrypt spoken conversat…
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California AG goes all-out to fight “revenge porn”
"Also speaking at the press conference was Danielle Citron, a law professor at University of Maryland who has interviewed more than 50 exploitation victims…
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Opinion: Why we all have a stake in encryption policy
"Which brings me to University of Washington School of Law assistant professor Ryan Calo's recent article. He argues that tech giants Apple and Google,…
Edward Snowden has proposed a new treaty. Here’s why it might or might not take off.
At the Council for Foreign Relations Web site, David Fidler says that Edward Snowden isn’t radical enough. He identifies three problems with the proposal that S…
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The Battle for “Nice”
"Woodrow Hartzog, an associate professor at Samford University’s Cumberland School of Law, whose focus includes intellectual property law, says that the fe…
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Empirical Evidence of “Over-Removal” by Internet Companies under Intermediary Liability Laws
NOTE: I periodically update this post. Last update was May 8, 2020. The "Over-Removal" Issue Most intermediaries offer legal “Notice and Takedown”…
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Computers, Freedom, and Privacy 2015
I am heading to (and speaking at) the 25th Anniversary Computers, Freedom, and Privacy (CFP) this week over in Alexandria, VA. Looking forward to seeing old fr…
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Google should 'inform more' on right to be forgotten
"And lack of awareness may not be the only reason for the apparently low number of appeals, said Martin Husovec, a Slovak-born assistant professor at the T…
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This Week In Data Collection News, And The Privacy Paradox
""There's a bit of a disconnect between what people say and what they do," says Ryan Calo, a law professor at the University of Washington wh…
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Would You Pull the Trolley Switch? Does it Matter?
"Gerdes has been working with a philosophy professor, Patrick Lin, to make ethical thinking a key part of his team’s design process. Lin, who teaches at Ca…