Video from The Going Dark Debate: Just Security’s Second Anniversary
As consumers increasingly adopt encryption tools, government officials have warned of the “Going Dark” problem – the notion that widespread encryption will thwa…
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First Amendment Scholars Amicus Brief
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These are the ways robots deceive us
"“I think robots are awesome,” said Woodrow Hartzog, a scholar at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society who specializes in human-robot interactions.…
“Private blockchain” is just a confusing name for a shared database
Banks and financial institutions seem to be all over the blockchain. It seems they agree with the Bitcoin community that the technology behind Bitcoin can provi…
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The EPA Opposes Rules That Could’ve Exposed VW’s Cheating
"Andrea Matwyshyn, law professor at Northeastern and Princeton Universities, says it’s not a done deal that the Copyright Office will oppose the proposed e…
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Why the maker of a chart-topping ad blocker just pulled it off the App Store
""Each of these intermediaries takes a cut, fragmenting the revenue that used to go more directly to publishers," said Jonathan Mayer, a computer…
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Senators Get Mixed Advice on Electronic Data
""The original disclosure rules set out in 1986 were foresighted, given the technology that existed at the time," said Richard Salgado, director…
Jobs for Robots
Simon Jack reports from Seattle on robots at work. From the Boeing factory where robots make planes to a clothes shop where a robot helps him buy a new pair of…
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Ahmed Mohamed Shows Why Makers and Hackers Care So Much About “Freedom to Tinker”
"At the Blackhat hacker conference in Las Vegas last month, keynote speaker Jennifer Granick, the director of civil liberties at the Stanford Center for In…
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Federal Agency Lawyers Caution Senate About Electronic Privacy Changes
"Richard Salgado, Google Inc.’s law enforcement and information security director, and Chris Calabrese, vice president of the Center for Democracy & Te…
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Google and Obama Administration Face Off Over Privacy at Tense Hearing
"Google’s head of law enforcement and information security, Richard Salgado, vehemently disagreed with the SEC, saying doing away with the warrant requirem…
Understanding Cybersecurity Due Diligence
Rarely does a day go by in which some variety of cyber attack is not front-page news. From Ashley Madison and the U.S. Office of Personnel Management to Sony, S…