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Amazon doesn't want you to know how many data demands it gets
""The more consumer-facing companies were more obviously implicated by the NSA revelations, and they started to feel the pressure and the impact on th…
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Monica Lewinsky Is Back, but This Time It’s on Her Terms
"Had the Lewinsky story unfolded today, certainly the digital reality of it would have been worse (or at least more pungent). “They would have dug up her p…
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The U.S. can legally access your old emails and it wants to keep it that way
"Digital storage wasn't the same three decades ago. As Jennifer Granick, the director of civil liberties at the Stanford Center for Internet and Societ…
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Elon Wants to Make Your Tesla Drive Itself. Is That Legal?
"The cars could, however, be kicked off the road if regulators aren’t thrilled with the idea of autonomous vehicles roaming the country, says Bryant Walker…
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Penn State Fraternity Photo Scandal: Kappa Delta Rho Case Raises Concerns About Unauthorized Sharing
"This sends the message that this stuff is not OK," said Danielle Citron, a University of Maryland law professor. "We're making clear it'…
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Social media sites may be better than the law at blocking revenge porn
"“It’s a wonderful turning point," said Danielle Citron, who has advised Facebook, Twitter and Reddit on their policies regarding nude imagery and is…
Debate: Should The U.S. Adopt The 'Right To Be Forgotten' Online?
People don't always like what they see when they Google themselves. Sometimes they have posted things they later regret — like unflattering or compromising…
How the White House snubbed Irish politicians on St. Patrick’s Day
St. Patrick’s Day celebrations (never St. Patty’s Day — take it from a native born Irishman) in Washington are usually uncontroversial. Irish politicians aren’t…
Pedro Roffe and Prof. Xavier Seuba - Hearsay Culture Show #233 - KZSU-FM share print
A talk show on KZSU-FM, Stanford, 90.1 FM, hosted by CIS Affiliate Scholar David S. Levine. The show includes guests and focuses on the intersection of technolo…
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Cyber Quantifiable Restrictions: The Requirements to Generate Agreed Restrictions on the Use of Cyber Capabilities
"Dr. Richard Forno from the University of Maryland concedes, “there is no international agreement over what level of cyber warfare is acceptable.” He furth…
Salvadoran General Deemed Deportable In the Absence of Criminal Charges
The Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) ruled last week that General Carlos Eugenio Vides-Casanova could be removed to El Salvador on account of his participatio…
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What Spymaster Barbie Can Teach Us About Privacy
Children make excellent intelligence assets. They trust strangers, lack socially-constructed boundaries about what is and is not private, and can be easily mani…