Redesigning Data Privacy: Reimagining Notice & Consent for human technology interaction
The World Economic Forum partnered with the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School and a community of policy-makers, researchers, civil society…
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What Does Retribution Mean Now? Thoughts on COVID-19, Prison, and Schadenfreude
I want to share some musings I had about what criminal punishment means right now in America. I don’t really write about the basics of criminal law and procedur…
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As facial recognition draws scrutiny nationwide, Stanford research raises questions closer to home
“I think consumers come up short here when it comes to research uses and there is little to be done to their relief under current law,” wrote Albert Gidari — Co…
Schrems II Offers an Opportunity—If the U.S. Wants to Take It
The Schrems II judgment by the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) will reshape the relationship between national security and global data flows. By i…
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Police Requests for Google Users’ Location Histories Face New Scrutiny
"“We vigorously protect the privacy of our users while supporting the important work of law enforcement,” Richard Salgado, Google’s director of law enforce…
Encryption Under ‘Full-Frontal Nuclear Assault’ By U.S. Bills
Riana Pfefferkorn, the Associate Director of Surveillance and Cybersecurity at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society, who has investigated and analyzed t…
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Austria’s online hate speech law prompts question marks about ‘overblocking’
"A law is being pushed through in great haste and “with a hot needle,” said Thomas Lohninger, head of the network policy NGO ‘epicenter.works’ in an interv…
Cyberattack Attribution and International Law
Earlier this week, the U.S. Department of Justice unsealed an indictment accusing two men linked to China’s Ministry of State Security of a decade-long campaign…
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We Won't Find Out How the DOJ Tried to Force Facebook to Change Its Encryption
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has rebuffed my attempt to unseal information about the Department of Justice's unsuccessful secret effort to force Faceb…
Ninth Circuit Memorandum Affirming District Court
Unpublished memorandum disposition by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals affirming the district court's denial of the petition. * Publication Type:Litigat…
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GEDmatch confirms data breach after users’ DNA profile data made available to police
"“The acknowledgement of an issue is a start, but if a ‘resolution’ means simply correcting the error, there are many questions that remain,” Elizabeth Joh…
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The coronavirus is exacerbating a crisis on social media. Human rights activists could pay the price.
"The rapporteurs’ message, according to Stanford researcher Daphne Keller, was that “using filters in this context is going to take down news reporting. It…