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Does the NSA minimize Americans metadata?
Today’s reporting by the Intercept calls into question whether the NSA minimizes so-called metadata relating to Americans’ digital communications and telephone…
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Intercept Reporting Raises Broader Metadata Minimization Question
Cross-posted from Just Security. Does the NSA minimize Americans metadata? Today’s reporting by the Intercept calls into question whether the NSA minimizes so-…
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Jumped Too Short
"Bryant Walker Smith, a scientist at the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School, describes an additional challenge: At the end of the progr…
Access To User Data: If Microsoft Wins, Do Startups And Innovators Lose?
With user trust at an all-time low, keeping the FBI’s hands off foreign users’ data seems like good business sense for U.S. companies. Microsoft says it’s fight…
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The Invention of the “Snapshot” Changed the Way We Viewed the World
"Previously, in the age of the studio photo, “you had to sit there and pose. You not only had to give your consent, you had to cooperate a lot,” notes Ryan…
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How To Keep Internet Trolls And Harassers From Winning
"“When it was a very famous and beloved person’s daughter, Twitter got involved,” says Citron. “But when it’s an average person victimized by revenge porn,…
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Mich. man accused of posting nude photos of ex to Facebook
""Law enforcement is behind the times on this," said Citron, a professor at the University of Maryland Frances King Carey School of Law and the a…
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Social networks crack down on terror posts
"Marvin Ammori, a 1st Amendment scholar and a fellow at the New America Foundation, said social media networks have to grapple with being the modern town s…
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Iran’s Internal Battle for Internet Control: President Rouhani and Supreme Leader Khamenei
Despite Iranian President Hassan Rouhani’s 2013 campaign promises to lighten internet censorship, little has changed in the way of content filtering or bloggers…
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Foley video, photos being scrubbed from Twitter
"Andrew McLaughlin was the director of global public policy for Google from 2004 to 2009, and served as a deputy Chief Technology Officer of the United Sta…
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Adam Carolla settles with podcasting patent troll, agrees to ‘quiet period’
""If suing him makes no economic sense, then it makes no sense to sue any podcaster," notes Nazer. "We hope that Personal Audio’s public sta…
Trade Secrets and Climate Change: Uncovering Secret Solutions to the Problem of Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Climate change is a significant and complex problem facing the world today. To solve the problem will require the coordinated efforts of both the public and pri…