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As Privacy Debate Rages, Is The Ad Industry Fresh Out Of Ideas?
"“Americans don’t think the trade-off of their data for personalized services is a fair deal,” said Omer Tene, VP of research for the International Associa…
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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Online Harassment (HBO)
Online harassment is a major problem, but it’s rarely prosecuted. If only we’d been warned about this in the early days of the internet. CIS Affiliate Scholar…
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Business roundup: Google will remove photos upon request
"Opponents of revenge porn cheered the decision. “We’ve been talking to Google for all these years,” said Danielle Citron, a professor at the University of…
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Google to remove 'revenge porn' from search results
"University of Maryland law professor Danielle Citron, an expert in online harassment and author of Hate Crimes in Cyberspace, applauded the move. The sear…
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You or the pedestrian: Ethics of autonomous cars making emergency decisions to save lives
"Dr Patrick Lin, director of ethics at California Polytechnic State University, wrote in 2014 that developing such a system "seems an awful lot like a…
Censoring ISIS’s online propaganda isn’t working out very well
David Fidler has a new brief for the Council on Foreign Relations examining U.S. public and private sector efforts to counter the online propaganda of the Islam…
Infographic: How Access to Paid Leave Helps Fathers
Fathers around the country report that they would like to spend more time with their children; it is important to remember that paid family and medical leave co…
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Congress' Fix for Cyberattacks May Hand the Government More of Your Data
"Cybersecurity experts also note that this legislation would do little, if anything, to thwart data breaches. "I'm not aware of a single computer…
Irish people are really, really angry with the New York Times today. This is why.
Six young Irish people died on Tuesday in San Francisco, when the fourth floor balcony that they were on collapsed into the street. Several others were seriousl…
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Apple wants to know if you use protection
""Data about reproductive health is very sensitive, but there are situations where maybe you want someone to know that," said Harlan Yu, principa…
House Appropriations Bill Threatens to Undo Open Internet Rules Through the Backdoor
Cross-posted from Technology | Academics | Policy. House Republicans have launched an attack on the FCC’s Open Internet Rules through provisions tucked into a…
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Posting Hulk Hogan's sex tape isn't revenge porn, but is it legal?
""Seeing the video tape of someone having sex is very different from journalists writing about it," Danielle Citron, author of the book Hate Crim…