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Find Out Whether This Unkillable Tracker Is On Your Smartphone
"“The most objectionable part is that it’s a boneheaded technical design, no matter what you think about carrier selling information about you,” says Mayer…
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FBI Impersonated Seattle Times To Spy On Bomb-Threat Suspect
"Ryan Calo, a professor at the University of Washington School of Law, said the online stratagems are reminiscent of more commonly accepted police tactics…
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For journalists coming into US, policies border on the absurd
"Catherine Crump, Associate Director of the Samuelson Law, Technology and Public Policy Clinic at UC Berkeley School of Law, agrees. "After the Suprem…
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Trade Secrecy and the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement: Secret Lawmaking Meets Criminalization
Trade secrecy, arguably the most active but least understood and studied of intellectual property's doctrines, is on the rise. Over the past two years, ther…
A Horse of a Different Color
Cross-posted from Slate. In the early days of dot-com, the law found the Internet unsettling. That a buyer in one location could access the website of a seller…
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The Future of Anonymity on the Internet Is Facebook Rooms
"“I think there’s definitely a pendulum swing, where we move and experiment with anonymity,” says Citron. “There’s certainly a destructive side to anonymit…
Want the best price online? Good luck with that.
""One of the problems with the capability of a company to personalize the terms on which is offers you services and the price is this information asym…
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EFF: Bitcoin snooping scheme puts bosses' freedoms at risk - See more at: http://www.managers.org.uk/insights/news/2014/october/eff-bitcoin-snooping-scheme-puts-bosses-freedoms-at-risk#sthash.9mhnDk1t.dpuf
"EFF Special Counsel Marcia Hofmann said: “The courts have long recognised that code is speech protected by the First Amendment. At their core, digital cur…
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This Military Robotics Company Vows To Never Make A Killer Robot
"Peter Asaro, vice-chair of the International Committee for Robot Arms Control, notes that companies like Google are thinking about the issue of ethics for…
Prof. David Golumbia - Hearsay Culture Show #222 - KZSU-FM
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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Bitcoin may be volatile but has value beyond price point
""At their core, digital currency protocols are code," said EFF special counsel Marcia Hofmann in a statement Tuesday. "Attempts to regulate…
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Online Harassment Prevalent, Often by Strangers, Pew Study Finds
"“The gaming piece is not a surprise at all,” said Danielle Citron, a law professor at the University of Maryland and author of “Hate Crimes in Cyberspace.…