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2020 Elections, COVID-19 Create Misinformation Opportunities
"While there’s a lot individuals can do to identify misinformation and reduce their role in spreading it, the main culprits are Twitter, Facebook and other…
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Techdirt Podcast Episode 248: The Most Serious Threat To Section 230
Attacks on Section 230 are relentless and coming from all sides — so we've got another podcast all about the attempts to ruin the most important law on the…
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The EARN IT Act Threatens Our Online Freedoms. New Amendments Don’t Fix It.
On July 2, the Senate Judiciary Committee held a full-committee hearing at which it made significant changes to the pending EARN IT Act bill, S.3398, about whic…
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Is the U.S. Senate Trying to Steal Your Privacy While No One is Looking?
"Wide-ranging in its focus, an analysis from Riana Pfefferkorn of Stanford’s Center for Internet and Society shows that it “isn’t just aimed at Apple, Goog…
Free Speech And Hate Speech: Another Reckoning For Social Media Companies
Coca Cola, Target and other major companies have recently limited or stopped advertising on Facebook. Those boycotts are part of a campaign designed to pressure…
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Making Sense of EARN IT & LAED Bills' Implications for Crypto
"Given that many US government leaders have led decades-long history of opposition to private use of digital encryption, cybersecurity and privacy advocate…
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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…