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California's CCPA Gets Enforcement Teeth Today
"This could all lead to soaring fines, warned Omer Tene, vice president and chief knowledge officer at the International Association of Privacy Professiona…
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New bill stokes long-running encryption fight in Washington
"The bill is a “full-frontal nuclear assault on encryption in all its forms,” says Riana Pfefferkorn, associate director of surveillance and cybersecurity…
Content Moderation: How it Works, Why it Works and Best Practices
The role of a content moderator is to be both a judge and a janitor of the internet, according to Alex Feerst, general counsel at Neuralink. In a Broadband Bre…
Follow-up Comments on Telekom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) Consultation Paper on "Traffic Management Practices (TMPs) and Multi-Stakeholder Body for Net Neutrality"
On June 29, 2020, Barbara van Schewick, Professor of Law and (by Courtesy) Electrical Engineering and Director of the Center for Internet and Society at Stanfor…
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New Republican bill latest in long line to force encryption backdoor
"The initial reaction by academics, cryptographers, technologists, and human rights advocates to the latest bill was swift and harsh. “This bill is the enc…
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A Republican Bill Would Weaken Encryption Just When We Need It Most
"Privacy advocates were skeptical that the federal government would be satisfied with just unlocking seized phones, though, and LAEDA’s requirement of lawf…
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Joseph DeAngelo Pleads Guilty in Golden State Killer Cases
"But Elizabeth Joh, a law professor at the University of California, Davis, said the horrifying nature of his crimes should not obscure the need for more t…
Everything You Need to Know About Section 230: A 5 Part Series -- Panel V: A Future without 230
Everything You Need to Know About Section 230: A Five Part Series -- Panel V: Imagining the Future without 230 Webinar V/V: Imagining the Future without 230 F…
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The Technology 202: Lawmakers unveil bipartisan proposal to make social media moderation more transparent
"Danielle Citron, a professor the Boston University School of Law, has long argued that Section 230 should not be a “free pass,” but rather contingent on c…
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There’s Now an Even Worse Anti-Encryption Bill Than EARN IT. That Doesn’t Make the EARN IT Bill OK.
On Tuesday, June 23, Senators Graham (R-SC), Cotton (R-AR), and Blackburn (R-TN) introduced a bill that is a full-frontal nuclear assault on encryption in the U…
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LIVE: TRAI's Net Neutrality open house discussion on traffic management practices
"12:45pm: Professor van Schewick: There is no Net Neutrality left at the federal level in the US. I don’t think any of you is looking at the current US sys…
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'Lawful access' bill would allow feds to legally bust into encrypted devices
""This is the full-frontal nuclear assault on encryption we've been fearing would come, but which no lawmaker previously had dared to put forth,&q…